Thousands of March and March supporters took to the streets in Durban on June 30, demanding that illegal immigrants leave the country.
Friends, I greet you in the universal greeting of peace from my beloved South Africa and our African continent.
Nobel Peace Laureate and Chairperson of democratic South Africa’s historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission Archbishop Desmond Tutu, reminded us, through the philosophy of ‘Ubuntu’, that: "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
Populism, asks us to believe the opposite. It divides and polarises society into opposites and binaries: people and elites; insiders and outsiders; patriots and enemies.
Populism suggests that political legitimacy belongs exclusively to one side of that divide, leaving little room for pluralism, compromise, democratic coexistence and even competing truths.
