South Africa: Xenophobia in South Africa - State's Complicity With Gangs and Vigilantes Is Threatening Its Ability to Govern

[The Conversation Africa] Marches, Mozambicans murdered, state-sponsored evacuations, a nationally televised presidential address.

Anti-immigrant mobilisation has again drawn the world's attention to South Africa.

The continental backlash threatens tourism, trade, diplomacy and investment opportunities in Africa's largest economy, and is derailing its constitutional democracy. ...