WORLDVIEW: SA rioters are wrong – we’re to blame, not foreigners

The day-to-day economic woes of the majority of South Africans cannot be laid at the feet of African migrants. The fault lies a lot closer to home.
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Johannesburg was convulsed with riots this week that reportedly targeted African immigrants – part of a persistent pattern of anti-immigrant violence that has been part of South African life since the end of apartheid.

It makes little sense. The day-to-day economic woes of the majority of South Africans cannot be laid at the feet of African migrants. The source of the fault lies a lot closer to home.

It's no great mystery why SA is still poor. Economists, international institutions like the IMF, and local politicians have been explaining the country's economic struggles for decades. In short:

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