He echoes Operation Dudula and March and March grievances, calls immigrants "guests" who must behave without saying how, and lets them absorb blame for South African government's own failures in what the UN already calls xenophobia.
From Ethiopia's passport to Nigeria's Mandela Tax, Africa gave everything to free South Africa. Decades later, South Africa is deporting the grandchildren of those who stood with them against apartheid.
Ireti Bakare-Yusuf pressed South African officials on a minister's "drug dens" remark. They demanded respect, while their government's cruelty toward African immigrants, evictions, evacuations, vigilante violence, went unaddressed
The continent that bled to end apartheid now has a name for what South Africa is doing to its children: Afrophobia. Four people are the main architects of the hate campaign, none has been charged.
Marches swept all nine provinces, a movement fractured in public view, a weekly protest declaration changed the shape of the campaign, and six African governments are still waiting for accountability.
A brief history of a country that owes its freedom to the continent it is now expelling, the men and women leading the charge, the politicians enabling them, and an election in November that explains everything Ramaphosa is not saying.
Two movements have set a June 30 ultimatum demanding that undocumented African migrants leave South Africa. In reality, documented migrants are fleeing too. President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on June 7 and still would not name either movement.
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