Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie says government should be given the bulk of the blame for not properly regulating the movement and activities of foreign nationals.
I was in Alexandra on the Monday evening of 2008 when the first big incident of xenophobic violence broke out.
Have our leaders learnt anything from the past 20 attacks against foreigners? What measures have been put in place to prevent them from happening again?The local township business owner has become near extinct, totally outmanoeuvred by Somalians. The general shortage of jobs and money also make them an attractive option for local women looking for security.
After getting everything in order, great was our surprise when being told we could still not operate in the area we preferred, because it was reserved for locals only. We were livid. Our leaders in South Africa allow just about anyone to come into the country to open a business. They don’t care how it will affect the locals. They don’t even have a database of how many Somalians operate businesses here.
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