An observer of South Africa today is not witnessing confusion. It is something more disturbing. It is ignorance performed with confidence. A manufactured panic about migrants crowds out the one conversation the country most needs to have.
The distraction is not a bug. For those who benefit, it is the entire point.
Who benefits from the noise
Neo-colonial control does not always wear a foreign face. Sometimes it works through local anger, carefully aimed away from the structures that actually hold power.
