Looming carnage: On the dangerous anti-migrant mobilisation in South Africa
Daily Maverick | 15.06.2026 06:07
As with the mobilisation of the populist right internationally, which draws on and misdirects people’s real grievances against the wrong targets (vulnerable people instead of the systems perpetuating their insecurity), we are seeing in South Africa today – as in, among others, Belfast, elsewhere in Europe and in the US – that this deflection will prevail every time against a human rights paradigm that doesn’t address people’s material concerns, and which can be easily written off as elitist and out of touch.
