‘POLITICS OF FEAR’: Mcebisi Jonas: Non-state actors’ hand in Afrophobia reveals deep governance failures
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He was addressing a packed room at the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation’s annual Winter Seminar, “Dialogue Among Equals”. It was the urgent topic of this year’s Winter Seminar, organised by former president Kgalema Motlanthe’s foundation, titled “Dialogue Among Equals”. “That the whole country, the whole state machinery, even the whole fiscal structure of government was redirected because a couple of populist non-state actors demanded that 30 June should be the deadline for foreigners [to leave the country], says something about the state of the state,” Jonas said.
- ▪He was addressing a packed room at the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation’s annual Winter Seminar, “Dialogue Among Equals”.
- ▪It was the urgent topic of this year’s Winter Seminar, organised by former president Kgalema Motlanthe’s foundation, titled “Dialogue Among Equals”.
- ▪“That the whole country, the whole state machinery, even the whole fiscal structure of government was redirected because a couple of populist non-state actors demanded that 30 June should be the deadline for foreigners [to leave the country
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‘POLITICS OF FEAR’ Mcebisi Jonas: Non-state actors’ hand in Afrophobia reveals deep governance failures By fomenting violence towards our fellow Africans, non-state actors are dictating terms to a South African government that lacks courage or direction, former deputy finance minister and president’s special envoy, Mcebisi Jonas, has said, rebuking the state. He was addressing a packed room at the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation’s annual Winter Seminar, “Dialogue Among Equals”. By Diana Neille 23 Jul 2026 Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas.
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