Saga over contestant’s nationality reflects hatred of other Africans fuelled by poverty among black population
, she dreamed of being crowned and going on to represent – at the Miss Universe contest in November – the country she had lived in since birth. What she didn’t expect was a furious backlash that would end up with her winning the right to represent Nigeria instead.against immigrants from other African countries that has festered since the end of apartheid, feeding off endemic unemployment, poverty and inequality, and periodically exploding into violence.
South Africa has long imported migrant labour, particularly to work in its mines. After white minority rule ended, it became a more attractive destination for people from other African countries. There were push factors, too, such as hyperinflation and political repression in neighbouring Zimbabwe in the late 2000s.
As the promise that the end of apartheid would lead to better lives for all has faded, anti-immigrant sentiment has risen. In a“Often South Africans are very disillusioned and frustrated with their material circumstances,” said Nomathamsanqa Masiko-Mpaka, a researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Who do you then blame? Those who are most vulnerable. And those are usually migrants because they are scapegoated for all our economic woes, our social ills,” she said.
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