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The Standard e-Paper
Truth Without Fear
Stop fighting your fellow African hustler. Africans must hold their leaders accountable for the unemployment that forces migration.
They arrived from South Africa carrying little more than battered suitcases, shattered dreams, and stories of lives abruptly uprooted by a fresh wave of xenophobic violence.
Compared with other African countries, South Africa is more industrialised and wealthier, but unequal. Inequality is the crux of the matter
Forty-seven Kenyans repatriated from South Africa have returned home, describing violent attacks, displacement and financial hardship amid an anti-immigrant crackdown targeting undocumented migrants.
According to Kagwanja, South Africa’s migration tensions cannot be viewed solely through the lens of jobs but also through historical and demographic factors that continue to shape the country.
Kenyans still in South Africa have been urged to remain vigilant and avoid areas where violence may occur.
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