South Africa: Turning a crisis into a continental conversation on migration and Africa’s future, By Mcebisi Jonas
At precisely the moment when the African Continental Free Trade Area seeks to deepen integration and reduce barriers between African economies, South Africa is sending the opposite message — that Africans are welcome as customers, investors and consumers, but not as people.
South African banks, retailers, telecommunications companies, logistics firms and manufacturers are expanding across Africa because that is where many of the fastest-growing opportunities and markets are to be found.
In South Africa we need to be alert to the dangers of a politics of ethnic and group division, in which political identity is bound up with economic aspirations.
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