Xenophobia is the symptom but class failure is the disease
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Tinashe Chimbidzikai
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Daily MaverickXenophobia is the symptom but class failure is the diseasedailymaverick.co.zaThe protests of 30 June did not happen in the affluent suburbs of Sandton or Constantia, but in the townships, informal settlements and inner city margins. And it is this that reveals the unresolved contradictions of post-apartheid class formation.
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