Why are African governments evacuating their citizens from South Africa?

from The Radio National Hour · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

African migrants are being evacuated from South Africa following a spate of deadly assaults and growing protests supposedly targeting undocumented foreigners. They’re being blamed for taking jobs, squeezing public services and driving crime. Is this xenophobic scapegoating really a protest against a failing government? In some European nations cooperatives account for as much as 40 percent of the housing stock, providing affordable and life-long security for millions of people but in Australia it's been dismissed as a hippie ideal. Sidsel Grimstah, Adjunct senior lecturer at Griffith University and a resident of coop housing in Oslo in Norway and Melina Morrison, CEO of the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals say the model has the potential to change the traditional view of housing in Australia.In his new book Ungrounding forensic architect Eyal Weizman argues that the wholesale destruction of Gaza is a deliberate strategy of dislocation, to remove people from this place, never to return.

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African migrants are being evacuated from South Africa following a spate of deadly assaults and growing protests supposedly targeting undocumented foreigners. They’re being blamed for taking jobs, squeezing public services and driving crime. Is this xenophobic scapegoating really a protest against a failing government? In some European nations cooperatives account for as much as 40 percent of the housing stock, providing affordable and life-long security for millions of people but in Australia it's been dismissed as a hippie ideal. Sidsel Grimstah, Adjunct senior lecturer at Griffith University and a resident of coop housing in Oslo in Norway and Melina Morrison, CEO of the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals say the model has the potential to change the traditional view of housing in Australia. In his new book Ungrounding forensic architect Eyal Weizman argues that the wholesale destruction of Gaza is a deliberate strategy of dislocation, to remove people from this place, never to return.