{"id":91658,"date":"2026-07-08T19:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91658"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:30:30","slug":"how-did-south-africa-produce-an-anti-african-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/08\/how-did-south-africa-produce-an-anti-african-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"How did South Africa produce an anti-African movement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA27tJRa.img?w=768&h=614&m=6&x=23&y=224&s=954&d=162\" alt=\"Widening chasm \u2026 anti-immigration protesters march through central Durban, South Africa. Photograph: Tommy Trenchard\/The Guardian\" width=\"663\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a terrifying few weeks in South Africa. A campaign against African immigrants has gathered steam,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jun\/30\/they-will-attack-me-if-i-stay-immigrants-in-south-africa-flee-for-safety-amid-violence-and-anti-foreigner-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">resulting in the deaths<\/a> of at least four people and the mass fleeing of thousands of others. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/how-did-south-africa-produce-an-anti-african-movement\/ar-AA27tP3x?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a4ea46257b645ff8571463e54ad8cf3&ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It\u2019s been a terrifying few weeks in South Africa. A campaign against African immigrants has gathered steam,\u00a0resulting in the deaths of at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/south-africa-returnees.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91659,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91658\/revisions\/91659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}