Listen to the Daily News Wrap, Monday 21 December
This is the Daily News Wrap by The South African – all the news you really need to know – when you need it.
We start with a worrying trend that is again rearing its ugly head in South Africa. The country’s stubbornly high unemployment rate – sitting now at a 17-year high – along with an already reeling economy pummelled further by the coronavirus outbreak – has awakened a recurrent social demon: Xenophobia.
Anti-immigrant groups have staged demonstrations in recent months in Johannesburg, the country’s biggest city, and in the capital Pretoria, demanding the mass deportation of foreigners.
Early in November, South African authorities began deporting African refugees and asylum seekers who were part of a months-long sit-in protest against xenophobia,
The Gauteng provincial government, the country’s economic hub, is seeking to pass a law next year to limit ownership of businesses in townships, also known as low-income areas, to South African citizens and foreigners who are fully legalised.
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