But now the democratically elected government is implementing xenophobia institutionally, panellists agreed.
The scourge of xenophobia South Africa is currently grappling with was brought to Africa by the colonials and adopted by the apartheid regime to divide and rule black Africans, human rights activists said in a panel discussion in Johannesburg yesterday.
Sibongile Tshabalala, human rights activist and chairperson of Treatment Action Campaign, said she had travelled all over Africa and had never experienced xenophobic sentiments. She said that still today in her township of Vosloorus, there were sections for different ethnic groups and this made it easy for South Africans to attack immigrants.
Migrant labour expert and activist Janet Munakwane said the borders SA uses as barriers to keep out other Africans were created in Berlin and there was a need for a decolonisation project to end xenophobia. In 1885, European leaders held the Berlin Conference to divide up Africa and arbitrarily draw up borders that exist to this day.
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