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Stars boycott South Africa over xenophobic attacks
BBC ^ | September 4, 2019

Posted on 09/04/2019 4:27:14 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Africans have come out to boycott South Africa after days of looting and violence targeting foreigners in which five people died.

Nigerian singers and Zambia's football team are among those in the boycott.

South Africa's Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu told the BBC the rioters feared losing their jobs to foreigners.

The country has become a magnet for migrants from other parts of Africa.

Who has boycotted South Africa?
Nigerian Afrobeats star Burna Boy vowed to never go to South Africa again until the government "wakes up".

He tweeted that he himself had had his own "xenophobic experiences at the hands of South Africans " in 2017.

Another Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, announced on Twitter she was pulling out of a concert she had planned to perform at in South Africa in September, condemning "the barbaric butchering of my people".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apartheid; southafrica; xenophobia
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1 posted on 09/04/2019 4:27:14 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

>> the rioters feared losing their jobs to foreigners.

South African Nationalists were behind these riots?


2 posted on 09/04/2019 4:41:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

They ain’t going to play in Sun City


3 posted on 09/04/2019 4:50:32 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Ain’t gonna play Sun City”


4 posted on 09/04/2019 4:50:44 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: JZelle

Damn. 12 seconds


5 posted on 09/04/2019 4:51:30 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The triumph of Desmond Tutu over Nelson Mandela is the battle for hearts and minds in that country. Really sad to see this and I guarantee that the media here will bury this, unlike the BBC, which showed some balls on this one.


6 posted on 09/04/2019 4:54:07 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What’s old is new again.


7 posted on 09/04/2019 4:54:23 AM PDT by VanDeKoik ( In heap big peace pipe)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Oh no! Burna Boy ain’t gonna’ be dere?


8 posted on 09/04/2019 4:59:18 AM PDT by stuckinloozeeana
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
It's my understanding that when adjusted for population South Africa's problem with illegals is at least as serious as ours,if not more serious.

*EVERY* country has the right to have borders and to restrict in any way it wishes the flow of non citizens across those borders.South Africa,with all its problems,is an absolute paradise when compared to neighbors like Mozambique,Zimbabwe,Angola,Congo,etc. That's why SA has the problems she has.

9 posted on 09/04/2019 5:06:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

When South Africa is an upgrade.


10 posted on 09/04/2019 5:11:46 AM PDT by xp38
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The media doesn’t talk about south africa because it’s returning to its pre-colonial state: barbarism and savagery. Mandela managed to keep the savages from overrunning the country and killing everybody, but now he’s gone and the current administration is letting them kill Whitey and take his property.


11 posted on 09/04/2019 5:39:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Refresh my memory. Is S. Africa still governed by rich white Dutchmen?


12 posted on 09/04/2019 5:49:36 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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South Africa turned Communist under Mandela... now they are talking about killing all the Boers and “re-patriating” IE stealing all their land.

Boer Farmers are being attacked and killed.

It is only a matter of a few short years under Communist rule and it has turned to this.


13 posted on 09/04/2019 6:01:50 AM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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It’s also just a matter of time until famine hits.


14 posted on 09/04/2019 6:06:38 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Gay State Conservative
That's why SA has the problems she has.

I think the problems in SA are more fundamental than just its neighbors.

15 posted on 09/04/2019 6:18:26 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Freeeeee Nelson Mandela.
Freeeeee Nelson Mandela.”


16 posted on 09/04/2019 6:23:06 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Here is a channel of what going on in SA. Sometimes a bit long winded, but current events are highlighted. No electricity, no water, no functional police, currency in free fall, etc.

South Africa

17 posted on 09/04/2019 6:25:33 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“The country has become a magnet for migrants from other parts of Africa”

Oh the irony of this. And the hypocrisy.


18 posted on 09/04/2019 6:40:00 AM PDT by Lent
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To: blueunicorn6
Nelson Mandela - COMMUNIST


19 posted on 09/04/2019 6:41:57 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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The objective of all communists is to put THEIR behinds in the back seats of the government limousines and the gold bathtubs in the palace.


20 posted on 09/04/2019 6:46:13 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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