Looming carnage: On the dangerous anti-migrant mobilisation in South Africa

Looming carnage: On the dangerous anti-migrant mobilisation in South Africa The chaos that threatens to explode from this mobilisation will devastate not only migrants but all poor people and workers. Only reactionary political forces will benefit from promoting it. By Neil Coleman 14 Jun 2026 Neil Coleman is Co-Founder and Senior Policy Specialist at the Institute for Economic Justice. @NeilColemanSA Dive Deeper Speed Read Listen Dive Deeper 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…

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