Some people among hundreds of foreign nationals take refuge at a park soon after foreign nationals were displaced during xenophobic attacks in Durban, South Africa, on March 27, 2019 following violence against immigrants and other foreigners.Up and down the streets of South Africa’s biggest cities, the campaign posters of the main opposition party are trumpeting a simple slogan: “Secure our borders.
The ANC, which is expected to win 50 per cent to 60 per cent of the vote in Wednesday’s election, has found the illegal immigration issue a useful diversion from the slumping economy and persistent corruption scandals. The opposition DA has found it an equally useful weapon to wield against the government.
But this message hasn’t reached the majority of the population. Foreigners, largely from African countries, are a convenient scapegoat for the high jobless rate. The anti-immigrant rhetoric is more intense than in previous elections, because politicians have learned that this rhetoric wins support, according to Loren Landau, a Johannesburg-based scholar on migration issues.
The trend has grown worse this year. “Violence against foreign nationals appears to be on the rise, amid political tensions in the lead-up to national elections,” a report by Human Rights Watch and the African Diaspora Forum said. Leading members of the ANC and the Democratic Alliance have inflamed the tensions with their own rhetoric. Before settling on its latest slogan about securing borders, the DA had earlier experimented with an even more provocative slogan: “All South Africans First.”
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