State Capture and xenophobia — ‘abahambe’ mob lacks gumption to tackle SA’s real problems
The xenophobic movements’ indifference to State Capture, high-level corruption and massive corporate fraud betrays a cowardice to confront the root causes of South Africa’s development failures. Let’s imagine for a moment that every foreigner in South Africa, documented or otherwise, heeds the abahambe (let them go) call and returns to their countries of origin. We […] The post State Capture and xenophobia — ‘abahambe’ mob lacks gumption to tackle SA’s real problems appeared first on The Namibia
The xenophobic movements’ indifference to State Capture, high-level corruption and massive corporate fraud betrays a cowardice to confront the root causes of South Africa’s development failures.
Let’s imagine for a moment that every foreigner in South Africa, documented or otherwise, heeds the abahambe (let them go) call and returns to their countries of origin.
We would see an outflow of about three million people, leaving roughly 63 million South African citizens to merrily capitalise on and benefit from the boundless job opportunities, government housing allocations and public healthcare services that our foreign guests so selfishly hogged.
The above scenario, of course, is utter fantasy. It is sheer folly steeped in the fallacious belief that foreign nationals engender or exacerbate this country’s most pressing socioeconomic obstacles.
