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Lately, scenes out of South Africa have been of terror-gripped, effects-schlepping foreigners lining up to catch the next plane or bus out of the country following the latest wave of xenophobic attacks.
Close to 30,000 people, including tens of Kenyans, had, as of May 30, 2026, been deported, according to the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa. And thus continues the idiocy of visceral, Black-on-Black hate, with South Africa as a jurisdictional constant.
At the heart of the problem are economic opportunities—hard-to-find for the locals, while proving an irresistible pull for foreigners—and, of course, crime. When Apartheid ended in May 1994, it was hoped that the Freedom Charter, a re-founding document that promised equity, fair distribution of national resources and fair factory wages and dividends, would be implemented fully—and sooner.
What followed, instead, was betrayal as resource-endowed White entrepreneurs co-opted hitherto Black champions of economic justice, including now-president Ramaphosa, palming them off with positions on big-business boards that saw to their becoming both wealthy and threat-blunt.
