residents of areas in Thokoza, South Johannesburg, cited frustration about their own mass unemployment to justify evicting migrant neighbours and burning their property in the streets. It was reported that
Most memes have no obvious facts, like who created them and for what purpose. The memes I am talking about are systems that we accept as our culture or norms and are hidden tools – it’s difficult to know where and how it starts, sometimes they are purposely hidden to a specific group circulated to blackmail, scapegoat or attack other groups for their own benefit.
The real question that needs to be asked is every time there is a xenophobic/Afro-phobic attack in South Africa, it starts either in a township or in a small town, not in Sandton or Rosebank orJeppestown or Alexandra? The money that they steal is supposed to be used to build roads for the cars they drive, hospitals so that many lives can be saved, schools for the new generation to come and homes for the needy.
Let’s ask ourselves this: How and where do our children spend most of their time? Library or clubs? Gym or smoking weed or drinking? The tavern and clubs are countless everywhere in the country, but not youth centres. What do we expect from this generation then?
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