EXCLUSIVE: Fear paralyses foreigners amid xenophobic threat to SA pollfrom SAVIOUS KWINIKA in Johannesburg, South AfricaEditor-In-ChiefJOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – WITH previous elections in recent years characterised by scapegoating of foreign nationals for prevailing socioeconomic problems afflicting South Africa, fear has gripped foreign nationals ahead of preparations for watershed elections in 2019. According to official South African statistics, as of 2011 census, 2,2million foreigners live in South Africa, which has an official (2011)population of 51,8 million. It’s a populist approach which seems to be working very well in South Africa. Nqabutho Mabhena, Chairman of Zimbabwe Diaspora Forum, however said discrimination was not peculiar to South Africa but a global issue. “As we amplify the Africanness of South Africa, we shall realise howdeeply connected we are to all of southern Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 05, 2018 15:56 UTC