Chapter One

1.1    BACKGROUND OF STUDY

On May 11, 2008, South African nationals in South Africa attacked foreigners, mainly blacks living in poor areas. the attacks began in Alexandra, Johannesburg and spread to other parts of the country. Due to the event, 62 people were officially confirmed dead; 342 foreign stores were looted and 213 burned. Forty-one foreigners were killed during the incident; such types of xenophobic attacks against foreigners had already taken place in the country and reached their peak in May 2008. In addition, “at least 670 people were injured and more than 100,000 displaced”. Due to the intensity of the violence, the Alliance (DA) urged the South African government to organize and deploy the army to help the police stop the attacks. However, it is only on the eleventh day that the government deploys the army; at that time, about “40 people died, hundreds wounded and thousands displaced”. It was not until May 26, 2008, that the government declared the incident under its control. The attack continued to increase despite the promises. (Ige, 2018)

This perpetual racial intolerance and these violent attacks against Nigerians living in South Africa have generated local and international condemnation. This study thus clearly highlights the fundamental issues of racial intolerance and aversion for foreigners, especially Nigerians in South Africa, in the wider historical context of the apartheid regime and post-conflict socio-economic relations. -apartheid who shaped the existential notions of false community, vague rights and vague sense of belonging among a number of black South Africans and, in turn, the economic disconnect between the two countries. Indeed, the question of xenophobia in contemporary South Africa is made up of profound psychosomatic reports and the negative product of the apartheid regime that can not be diverted from the collective consciousness of the people of the arctic nation. in sky. This resulted from the reorientation of black South Africans after the post-apartheid era. This is all the more true given the concomitant dispossession of their wealth and personal pride by the disgusting and disgusting apartheid regime that exploited and separated them on their own land.

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