South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members of the country’s most-prominent anti-migrant street movement.
It’s an age old tradition, but it’s not and arbitrary group it’s always a minority group. Maybe it’s the Jews, maybe it’s a certain ethnicity, maybe it’s just a political ideology.
The easiest thing to rally people around is the excuse that it’s the outside group that’s ruining your country.