Thursday, 16 April 2015 11:44
Written by Editor
The Star reports that labour federation Cosatu and the SA Communist Party (SACP) have accused big businesses of fomenting black-on-black violence in Durban and other areas experiencing attacks on foreigners.
The organisations said “white monopoly capital” in the hospitality and retail industry had deliberately chosen to employ foreigners over their South Africans counterparts in order to exploit foreigners. Like their counterparts in the ANC, Cosatu president S’dumo Dlamini and SACP second deputy secretary Solly Mapaila insisted the attacks were afrophobic in nature. “The peculiarity of these attacks is that they are targeting Africans … They should come to a stop,” Dlamini said.
He went on to state: “Whether we call it afrophobic or xenophobic attacks, the reality is that they are targeting a particular skin colour, a particular race, which is largely African. Pakistanis and Bangladeshi also fall within that category.” The parties called on the government to act decisively against sectors of the economy that “super-exploit foreign nationals”. In their statement, the parties said: ldquo;The perpetuation of imperialist exploitation involving new methods is reproducing and worsening these problems. Yet those who are primarily responsible for these problems are basking in the luxury of accumulated surplus wealth.”
Read this report by Baldwin Ndaba in full at The Star