Browsing: xenophobia

Nigerians, who recently returned from South Africa on account of the xenophobic attacks in the Rainbow country, have recounted ordeals, appealing to the Federal Government to urgently introduce rehabilitation and reintegration programmes to help them rebuild their lives after allegedly losing homes, businesses and other means of livelihood.

The following article was originally published in Casa Marx as part of a dossier on “Africa and Marxism,” prepared by members of Quilombo Vermelho from Brazil and Africa. This article and the aforementioned dossier are part of an initiative launched at the 14th Conference of the Permanent Revolution Current to reclaim the best traditions of…

______________ OPINION By Prof. Alex Bashasha South Africa’s rising tide of xenophobia is steadily burying Nelson Mandela’s Pan-Africanism dream. The liberation struggle that brought down apartheid was never a purely South African effort. It was sustained by sacrifices across the continent — Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola and many others opened their borders, trained fighters and…