Hey! I should start off by saying I’m South African. As we all know the country has a severe xenephobia problem. One that if not dealt as an existential threat to the country’s social order will absolutely ruin it. I am aware and I try to fight against it every time I see it. I am warning my fellow Africans that there are accounts online, particularly in twitter that have identified how lucrative talking about this is and have started spreading misinformation about it. EDIT: Unfortunately I had to remove a link to a video where I feel misinformation was being spread. The account it @TheGrandmaBoy This account claims that in this video South Africans are specifically asking South Asian and Chinese immigrants to prioritise hiring South Africans over other Africans. I am not convinced that that is what is happening in this weirdly short video. Xenephobes hate South Asian immigrants as much as other Africans. Particularly Pakistanis, watch how they react to women who have married these men. This is even layered with Islamophobia because these people don’t hold one bias they hold them all. The woman of South Asian descent that speaks in the video based on accent is a South African too. As in many generations. They have a particular accent. Perhaps everyone else in the room is an immigrant but we can’t know that. They could be in a heavy heavy Muslim area. Literally everyone in that room could be South African. At no point in the video does the speaker say “and don’t hire other Africans” This video would have certainly hit SA social media before spreading to the rest of African social media if it really was what the poster is claiming it is. This is one example of a strange video. There was another unfortunately I can’t find it that claimed to be video showing a foreign National being beaten up in Durban. However when one opens the video, everyone speaking is speaking Setswana. That may sound inconsequential however Durban is in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Meaning a very Zulu area. And this is sort of an inside joke but Zulu people tend to speak only Zulu especially when they’re on home turf. Why would they all be speaking the language of the North West and Gauteng? That proves to me that that video isn’t taking place where they say it is. And if you could lie about that? What else could they be lying about? Hear me out. This post may come off incredibly out of touch. These past few years have been a stain on the country, and everyone calling South Africans names as a result isn’t really an issue in comparison to what’s going on here. However, misinformation only serves to cause unnecessary breakdown in even our ability to understand the temperature on the ground and also it only serves those who seek to divide us including the xenephobes. I found myself scrolling away from the topic once I figured out that other African accounts were lying. But that was literally a win for the xenephobes. Also I’m becoming conspiratorial but I think there are other things at play but… yeah that’s all I got. Be angry, but be careful.   submitted by   /u/Mundane_Major619 [link]   [comments]