{"id":25497,"date":"2026-07-06T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/south-africas-xenophobia-can-thabo-mbeki-change-the-narrative\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:44:12","slug":"south-africas-xenophobia-can-thabo-mbeki-change-the-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/south-africas-xenophobia-can-thabo-mbeki-change-the-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s Xenophobia: Can Thabo Mbeki Change the Narrative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, No. 6, Juillet 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Yusuf Bangura<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Thabo Mbeki\u2019s lecture during a high-level business breakfast on 22 May 2026<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> was a major pushback against the current xenophobia by black South Africans against African immigrants\u2014a phenomenon that has generated the term \u2018Afrophobia\u2019. The lecture systematically highlighted the heroic contributions of Africans to the anti-apartheid struggles, urging his compatriots to reckon with this history and change course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In this lecture, Mbeki recollected his vast experiences in various African countries when the ties between the ANC and Africa were unbreakable. For decades, the continent viewed its own independence as incomplete as long as minority white rule persisted in South Africa. Mbeki noted that in the first two decades of South Africa\u2019s liberation, the vision of the ANC government was to embed South Africa\u2019s development within a pan-African integration framework that would see South Africa and the rest of Africa prosper together. He regretted that there had been a serious regression of the pan-African spirit in South Africa in the past twenty-five years. In a sharp rebuke, he accused his compatriots, who are attacking African immigrants and blaming them for South Africa\u2019s high level of black unemployment, of chasing the wrong target, or as he put it, \u2018chasing ghosts\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.codesria.org\/index.php\/codesriabulletin\/article\/view\/6443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, No. 6, Juillet 2026 by Yusuf Bangura President Thabo Mbeki\u2019s lecture during a high-level business breakfast on 22 May 2026[i] was a major pushback against the current xenophobia by black South Africans against African immigrants\u2014a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[332,287,333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulletin-fr","category-news-fr","category-publications-fr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codesria.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}