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Foreigners in South Africa arm themselves to fend off anti-immigrant riots

South Africa, the continent's most industrialized nation, attracts millions of immigrants from across Africa, especially from neighboring nations like Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Ethnically and linguistically, they are not very different from the average black South African, but Nkosi says the psychological gulf between locals and immigrant communities is huge.

"South Africans are still very much inward-looking, because apartheid had isolated the country for decades, and they still see Africa as the ‘Dark Continent,'" he says. "They talk about other Africans as people from Africa, as if they are not in Africa. And that psychological makeup is what creates the divide.”

Nkosi says South Africans also tend to look down on people from poorer countries. One reason is economic: Immigrants are willing to work for lower wages, and many South Africans find it hard to get jobs. Unemployment in the country stands at just over 24 percent.

“I spoke to a man called Levi who comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Nkosi says. “He had gone to pick up a car from his workshop only to find that the workshop was torched. He said that the Congolese people supported South Africans when they were under apartheid, and he was surprised that this is how they thank them. He said he would leave here with tears in his eyes. He’s very, very unhappy.”

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-04-17/foreigners-south-africa-arm-themselves-fend-anti-immigrant-riots