The recent violence has been a cruel reminder for many South African Indians of the 1949 anti-Indian pogroms in KwaZulu-Natal
The events of this week were not a mass mobilisation of the poor. This was not a protest movement against hunger, corruption or inequality. It was a mobilisation by corrupt, greedy politicians and their provocateurs to foment chaos, sabotage key infrastructure and topple the regime led by President Cyril Ramaphosa. resonates with the mentality of a sinister mind — Bell Pottinger 2.0.
Though it is undisputed that there is an urgent need to immediately resolve the economic oppression endured by the poor and the persistent structural issues that exacerbate this harm, what happened in KwaZulu-Natal and some parts of Gauteng is not the mobilisation of South Africa’s poor. The poor know right from wrong, and they demonstrate amazing self-restraint. Ask any aid worker on the ground in South Africa doing relief work. If it was hunger, poverty or inequality, then why didn’t the poor in the Eastern Cape, South Africa’s poorest province, revolt?
In the media, poverty porn is about exploiting the conditions of the poor in order to generate sympathy for a cause. On the Netflix seriesFor the insurgents, Plan Cameroon was the equivalent of Plan B should Plan A fail. Plan A was the belief that there would be a countrywide revolt and the looters would be seen as the heroes — the revolutionaries. If it backfired, Plan B would kick in: the Pottinger spin.
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