Comments on: Anti-Afrophobia

By: Changeseeker

Changeseeker — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:57:19 +0000

The points being made by the anti-eviction campaign would need very little, if any, modification to fit the current situation related to immigrants from Mexico in the U.S. The government created the problem in the first place by implementing NAFTA. Then the government has used the influx of desperate people across the border as a way to distract U.S. citizens from other issues, even encouraging them in a whole raft of ways to see Mexican immigrants as a threat and even to attack them. The poverty created by neo-liberalism on both sides of the border is the real problem. And alieviating the poverty through redistribution is the answer. Changeseekers last blog post..I'm Listening...

By: aaasss

aaasss — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:55:50 +0000

why we can’t get along, then put so much hate.

By: anengiyefa

anengiyefa — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:23:22 +0000

@Sokari, this is true. Methinks that the statement from the WCAE campaign was suggesting a solution to the xenophobia and violence that we have seen recently in South Africa. Migration is a part of human history, and migrant workers have played an important part in the South African economy over a long period of time. But the virulent xenophobia that we have seen is relatively new, and is a direct consequence of the unprecedented mass migration to that country that has occured since the end of apartheid, and particularly since the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy. It is addressing the root causes of this mass migration, and thereby removing the need for people to migrate in such large numbers, that is in my view the real solution to xenophobia.

By: Sokari

Sokari — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:20:46 +0000

amengiyefa @ No it would not eliminate migration to SA – that is not what the WCAE campaign are saying. People have migrated across lands for as long as humans have roamed this earth – there are huge numbers of SA living abroad in Africa and the West – people are moving from all corners – from Kenya to Uganda, Nigeria to Ghana and so on. Migration will always be a part of our existence for one reason or the other.

Beauty @ If I believe that social justice was an Utopian ideal I might as well give up and die right now – I believe that change can be accomplished, not without a struggle, but the system of capitalist exploitation is just not sustainable.

By: anengiyefa

anengiyefa — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:02:19 +0000

Ending the “oppression of all poor people living in South Africa” cannot in itself be the only “long-term solution” to xenophoia. This is so because this alone will not eliminate the need for millions of migrants from neighbouring and other countries to consider migrating to South Africa in search of a better life, and this, because of the conditions in their home countries. I tend to think that the problem has wider cross-border dimensions, and competition for resources between migrants and the indigenes will not be eradicated simply by improving the quality of life for the indigenes.

By: Beauty

Beauty — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:48:39 +0000

This raises the utopian dream in Africa as Robert Mugabe goes to dinner at the World Food Conference in Rome. Italy that is already planning stricter immigration rules (opposed by Spain) chose to see this evil but closed its eyes to the root causes of immigration. Beautys last blog post..53 Nigerians were arrested in Málaga, Spain