This is going to end well
The lure of far right themes are globalized admittedly
- Hates migrants
- Ravaged by a drug crisis
- Glorifies the past as a ‘simpler’ time (even while acknowledging that this time had apartheid)
From MAGA to South Africa to Eastern Europe
I found that especially interesting, they directly spell out what elsewhere is only said via external commentary.
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Oddly enough your comment is racist
How so?
I’ll touch it what they are doing is suuuper racist and their politicial party has no manifesto so can be assumed to only be based on being racist.
But most of the people they’re going against are Nigerians, and they’re black south Africans. Xenophobic? Sure. Racist???
Fine xenophobic then.
Outside the US (if there, who knows), racism does not mean white against black.
Does it mean black against black?
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Operation Dudula was set-up in Soweto two years ago, the first group to formalise what had been sporadic waves of xenophobia-fuelled vigilante attacks in South Africa that date back to shortly after white-minority rule ended in 1994.
According to a 2022 report by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), an independent research organisation based in the capital, Pretoria, there are about 3.95 million migrants in South Africa, making up 6.5% of the population, a figure in line with international norms.
Operation Dudula has ambitions to fill that vacuum and has now transformed itself from a local anti-migrant group into a national political party, stating its aims to contest next year’s general election.
Zandile Dabula, who was voted in as president of Operation Dudula in June 2023, is calm, charismatic and emphatic about the group’s message: “foreigners” are the root cause of South Africa’s economic hardship.
A Nigerian market trader, who was the target of a raid by Operation Dudula members in Johannesburg earlier in the year, tells the BBC that the two women who tasered him and destroyed his clothes by throwing them in the gutter did not stop to ask questions.
Mr Lenkosi, also from Soweto and out of work, takes part in raids on migrant homes and workplaces, people who are suspected of anything from drug dealing to remaining in the country past their visa date.
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