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Winter Rain

Posted by on May 28, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Don, my new Ugandan friend (if I could take the liberty to call him that), asks whether the xenophobic attacks in South Africa are perhaps an “expression of a bigger malaise that no one seems to capture”. I’ll quote my reply to him, from his post on The Other View: Regarding the xenophobic crisis: Firstly, it should not be seen as a sudden uprising but rather as a gradual amalgamation of other issues facing the country, poverty, crime and unemployment. I’ll share with you comments from a columnist of the local Times daily: …As South Africans, we have an attitude...

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