MICHAEL CARDO: EFF perpetrates workplace terrorism as foreign nationals are scapegoated again

EFF leader Julius Malema visited restaurants in Mall of Africa to check if the retio between South Africans and foreign nationals is balanced. File photo: SUNDAY TIMES/THAPELO MOREBUDI

The EFF’s visit to several restaurants to check the “employment ratio” between SA citizens and foreign nationals is only the most recent and high-profile manifestation of a disturbing, populist trend. Action SA’s leader Herman Mashaba has been railing against foreign nationals for years. In 2019 he accused migrants from other African countries of being disproportionately responsible for crime in Johannesburg, a claim unstitched by criminologists.

All of this is reminiscent of SA in the 1930s. Then, in the wake of the Wall Street Crash and Great Depression, the so-called “poor white problem” among Afrikaners dominated political discourse. Almost simultaneously a devastating drought wreaked havoc on the national economy, much like the Covid-19 pandemic would 90 years later.

Here we are in 2022. Owing to almost three decades of ANC corruption, state capture and policy incoherence, the economy is on the skids. Many of our politicians are venal and violent. More people are unemployed than at any point since 1994. The social fabric is rapidly fraying. The nation is a tinderbox. Once more, politicians have surveyed the landscape for a scapegoat, and alighted upon foreign nationals as a suitable target. This will, inevitably, have deadly consequences.

EFF looking to being significant but with 10% you create economic terrorism to significant.uneducated would always disrupt because they dont know anything else

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