Xenophobia DICTIONARY
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<strong>Xenophobia</strong><br />
A Contradictionary<br />
By Zazi Dana
‘The Uncommon Dictionary of...’<br />
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The first time I had ever witnessed xenophobia, and its<br />
effects, was in 2015 when I was in Grade 6. My initial<br />
reaction was of utter horror and disgust and ultimately<br />
sadness as I saw my peers’ lives change dramatically. I saw<br />
my best friend’s family business shut down and their<br />
family live in fear. So much was going on and I had no idea<br />
what to think of it.<br />
Some context<br />
Xenophobic violence has been happening in South Africa<br />
since before 2000. In 1995, “Buyelekhaya” (go back home)<br />
campaigns were held where locals blamed foreign nationals<br />
for the spread of AIDS, sexual violence, crime and a lack of<br />
jobs and tried to drive them out of the country.<br />
May 2008 brought riots in the township of Alexandra,<br />
where locals attacked immigrants from Zimbabwe,<br />
Mozambique and Malawi, leaving several injured and dead.
Attacks continued from 2008 right up until 2015 when a<br />
huge surge of attacks happened in Kwa-Zulu Natal and<br />
spread throughout the country. Matters did not improve<br />
when relevant figures such as Zulu King Goodwill<br />
Zwelethini said that foreigners should go back home. Locals<br />
looted foreign-owned shops and businesses and forced<br />
hundreds of foreigners to relocate to safer areas.<br />
A very popular case was the murder of Emmanuel Sithole, a<br />
Mozambican national. He was beaten by a group of locals<br />
and promptly rushed to hospital. The doctor who was<br />
supposed to be on duty couldn’t be found and Sithole died<br />
of his injuries. It was later discovered that the doctor was<br />
also a foreign national but was in hiding due to the attacks.<br />
Pictured: Emmanuel Sithole being attacked by two men, who were later convicted
News coverage of xenophobic attacks has changed since<br />
2015. We’re hearing less and less about what’s happening<br />
in the news which gives a lot of us the illusion that<br />
xenophobic attacks haven’t happened in 4 years when<br />
they’ve actually consistently happened since. After all, how<br />
are we supposed to know what’s going on in our country if<br />
the news does not report on it enough?<br />
Since 2015<br />
The attitude that xenophobic attacks have ended does<br />
nothing for those who suffer from them regularly. It’s<br />
important to urge the media to push the agendas of<br />
everybody.
Aa<br />
Accountability is being held responsible for any transgressions you may have<br />
perpetrated. It’s important those who do wrong be held responsible for their<br />
wrong doings so that their victims can get justice. The South African Police<br />
Service have failed to hold those perpetrators of xenophobic attacks<br />
accountable and south african politicians even condone the actions of the<br />
attackers.<br />
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Cripple<br />
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To cripple something is to deprive something of its ability to function to a<br />
point in which recovery isn’t possible. Many countries’ economies are<br />
crippled from internal and external conflicts and wars. Issues like<br />
xenophobia cripple economies because foreigners come into the country<br />
looking for jobs and locals prevent them from doing that.<br />
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Dream<br />
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Fantasies of something greatly desired. Everybody has dreams about going<br />
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lives to work towards it. It’s unfortunate how immigration can be such a<br />
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Hide<br />
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To put something away or to obscure something from vision to avoid it<br />
being found. Many foreigners in South Africa that are under attack, due to<br />
xenophobia, hide somewhere they believe is safer until they can return to<br />
their homes in South Africa or their native countries.<br />
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Jump<br />
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To push oneself up and off the ground, using your feet. The journey from<br />
one’s home country is almost never one that’s comfortable. Jumping<br />
borders, crawling through tunnels and swimming through rapids to get to<br />
South Africa. South Africa’s borders are very porous, the Home Affairs’<br />
system makes immigrants wait months for papers, bribes require money<br />
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Lynch<br />
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To put somebody to death with the help of the community. Lynching is<br />
often how a lot of refugees die in South Africa. Entire communities revolt<br />
against the settlements of refugees and often loot, rape and destroy the lives<br />
of foreign communities. Immigrants get often get lynched by their<br />
respective communities and their families are left with nothing.<br />
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NormaliseWord!<br />
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OpportunityWord!<br />
An opportunity is a set of circumstances that allow something to happen.<br />
South Africa is often seen as the ‘Land of Opportunity’ to a lot of foreign<br />
nationals because of its development and its increasing access to privileges<br />
that people from mostly 1st world countries get. People often some here in<br />
search of jobs, safety and as a last resort.<br />
“Nobody would put their child in a boat unless the water is safer than the<br />
land” -Warsan Shire<br />
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Promise<br />
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An assurance that something will happen. South Africans, native or not, are<br />
promised several things by the government yet they remain unfulfilled time<br />
and time again. We’ve been let down by our government multiple times<br />
because of the unfulfilled promises of a better future for our country.<br />
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Qq<br />
Question<br />
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To request more information. I love to ask why, I always have and always<br />
will. The moment you ask somebody a questions, it shows how much you’re<br />
willing to learn from who you’re asking. A lot of people don’t like being<br />
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Worth<br />
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The level at which something is valued. A human life is of limitless worth<br />
regardless of what differentiates us but yet again we have people being treated<br />
as if they are less than human on the basis of their race, gender, sexuality,<br />
economic status or nationality.<br />
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Zazi<br />
Word!<br />
To know yourself. My given name.<br />
I’ve learned so much about myself in such a short space of time and I can<br />
only hope that everybody around me has this experience of self-discovery as I<br />
have had because it makes you more humble, more self-aware. I am a child<br />
journalist, aspiring Nobel Prize winner, writer, a young south african yet a<br />
global citizen.<br />
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“What words must we sow<br />
for the gardens of the world<br />
to be fertile again?”.<br />
- Jeanine Salesse, French Poet