APARTHEID AS A CATALYST OF XENOPHOBIC TENDENCIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A (original) (raw)
2021, Jos Journal of Written and Oral Literature
This study examines the racial discrimination that took place in South Africa and traces the remote and immediate causes of xenophobia in the country by looking at apartheid as a form of racism that gave rise to it. Therefore, selected poems of Oswald Mtshali are analysed and used to portray the violent nature of apartheid, which has triggered a violent reaction on the hapless immigrants years after the dismantling of the nefarious law and the eventual end of the system. The sociological and dialectical theories are employed in this study to serve as a guide and to put it into better perspective. The finding of this research shows that apartheid is one of the reasons that triggered the black South Africans into attacking the African immigrants. It is safe to conclude that apartheid has damaged the psyche of some of the black South Africans, which causes them to fear the unknown. The study also looks at the reason behind the transfer of aggression by the perpetrators of xenophobia onto their victims, who are looking for their means of survival. Therefore, the transition of former liberators into oppressors is emphasised in this research, just as it is in the case of the victims of apartheid who have become the oppressors themselves.
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