Roots of xenophobia: Before ‘Abahambe’ there were AmaMpondo and Amankula
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There is something eerily familiar about the narrative that immigrants, documented or not, are the source of our pain in South Africa, with the phrase ‘Abahambe’ gaining dangerous traction.
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