Thursday, 24 March 2016

Xenophobia is idendified as strong hatred of non-nationals by the nationals of recipient state, and it’s also believed that Xenophobia is a manifestation of racism. Xenophobia in South Africa is perceived to have significantly increased after the installation of a Democratic government. Reasons for the attacks differ, with some blaming the contestation for lack of resources, others attribute it to the country’s violent past, inadequate service delivery and the influence of micro politics in townships and even the involvement and complicity of local authority members in conflict for political and economic reasons.

Xenophobia attack is the only thing the non-south Africans fear the most as social media platforms regulate around these issue on how the non- South Africans are threated in the vicinities of Johannesburg. The Social media Platforms plays a role on making our country a safer place to live since it’s believed that the non-south Africans are the ones bringing non legit businesses in the county. The drug business is believed to be from Nigerian’s and those who mug people on the streets dairy are believed to be Zimbabwean’s but although it’s all speculations from the public. The social media platforms gives the public an urge on how the publics view these hashtags on social media.

SayNoToXenophia campaign is actually a great campaign but not just for the business sites but also for humanity simply because these people are humans just like the rest of us and I believe that We south Africans wouldn’t be pleased one bit if we heard that one of our fellow south African was in a xenophobic attack in some country . If the Xenophobic attack continues in South Africa, a lot of people will lose business as they are business partners with non-south African citizens. The social media platforms works as an eye opener to lot of Non South African citizens who might have once thought of coming to South Africa to do business or rather just to visit, they perceive South Africa as a violent country.


It’s a strong urge for the non-south Africa citizen never to set foot in our country and since these foreigners are the ones dominating in the corporate world the economy will have a downfall and these won’t be a great thing for South Africa. These hashtags changes the perceptions of the public. The campaign SayNoToXenophobia is a strong movement that is supported by the government itself and a lot of people are doing the best they can when it comes to fighting Xenophobia. The president once said that no grievance against a foreigner could ever justify cold-blooded murder, the destruction of property and displacement of people. The South African citizens are clearly xenophobic as they are outdone by foreigners.

10 comments:

  1. it a good campaign especially to remind all people about humanity. we have lost so many lives due to people who feel inferior and decide to beat on people who immigrate to our country.

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  2. I agree with you but it seems as if these xenophobic attacks are from some kind of agenda, it's not just that we forgot about humanity and how important someone's life is, it's just the mindset

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  3. These campaign can really help save a lot of lives and can makes the people realise that these attacks are actually draging our country's name to the mud

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  4. I agree and draging the country's name to the mud might scare tourists away from the country as the would fear for their lives since the country is xenophobic.These campaign is great and needs people to stick together to beat finally stop with these attacks

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  5. but why do these attacks seems like they are never ending even through the support of the government itself, it seems like it's just talk and no action

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  6. I think it is because the country is faced with lots of issues that are also as important as this one and it tries to address them at once instead of focussing on one issue and moving to the next issue after the first has been completely fixed or should i say sorted

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  7. but why is it difficult for them to only focus on one issue. I mean like what is it with these leadership of ours

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  8. It might be the system the country adopted from the previous leaders or maybe i should say it is what our leaders were taught and they are or might be afraid that trying different approaches might riun things and they might not be able to make up for the loss

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  9. You are absolutely right when you talk about our system.I think lot of people are afraid of doing things differentely and thats why these attack might never end but i think its best to vjust hope for the best andd support these kind of campaigns

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  10. What you saying is that the leadership fear that applying new methods or doing things differently might ruin a lot of things, But how are we giong to actually see change if we always do things exactly the same everytime. I think a lot of thinmgs needs to be changed within our country maybe it might help slower or eventually stop this strong hatred we South Africans have against foregners

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