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Thirteen true stories about transformation, xenophobia and belonging in Africas metropolis.
Generations of people from across Africa, Europe and Asia have turned metal from the depths of the earth into Africas wealthiest, most dynamic and most diverse urban centre, a mega-city where post-apartheid South Africa is being made. Yet for newcomers as well as locals, the golden possibilities of Gauteng are tinged with dangers and difficulties.
Chichi is a hairdresser from Nigeria who left for South Africa after a love affair went bad. Azam arrived from Pakistan with a modest wad of cash and a dream. Estiphanos trekked the continent escaping political persecution in Ethiopia, only to become the target of the May 2008 xenophobic attacks.
Nombuyiselo is the mother of 14-year-old Simphiwe Mahori, shot dead in 2015 by a Somalian shopkeeper in Snake Park, sparking a further wave of anti-foreigner violence. After fighting white oppression for decades, Ntombi has turned her anger towards African foreigners, who, she says are taking jobs away from South Africans and fuelling crime. Papi, a freedom fighter and activist in Katlehong, now dedicates his life to teaching the youth in his community that tolerance is the only way forward.
These are some of the thirteen stories that make up this collection. They are the stories of South Africans, some Gauteng-born, others from neighbouring provinces, striving to realise the promises of democracy. They are also the stories of newcomers, from neighbouring countries and from as far afield as Pakistan and Rwanda, seeking a secure future in those very promises.
The narratives, collected by researchers, journalists and writers, reflect the many facets of South Africas post-apartheid decades. Taken together they give voice to the emotions and relations emanating from a paradoxical place of outrage and hope, violence and solidarity. They speak of intersections between people and their pasts, and of how, in the making of selves and the other they are also shaping South Africa. Underlying these accounts is a nostalgia for an imagined future that can never be realised. These are stories of forever seeking a place called home.
Generations of people from across Africa, Europe and Asia have turned metal from the depths of the earth into Africas wealthiest, most dynamic and most diverse urban centre, a mega-city where post-apartheid South Africa is being made. Yet for newcomers as well as locals, the golden possibilities of Gauteng are tinged with dangers and difficulties.
Chichi is a hairdresser from Nigeria who left for South Africa after a love affair went bad. Azam arrived from Pakistan with a modest wad of cash and a dream. Estiphanos trekked the continent escaping political persecution in Ethiopia, only to become the target of the May 2008 xenophobic attacks.
Nombuyiselo is the mother of 14-year-old Simphiwe Mahori, shot dead in 2015 by a Somalian shopkeeper in Snake Park, sparking a further wave of anti-foreigner violence. After fighting white oppression for decades, Ntombi has turned her anger towards African foreigners, who, she says are taking jobs away from South Africans and fuelling crime. Papi, a freedom fighter and activist in Katlehong, now dedicates his life to teaching the youth in his community that tolerance is the only way forward.
These are some of the thirteen stories that make up this collection. They are the stories of South Africans, some Gauteng-born, others from neighbouring provinces, striving to realise the promises of democracy. They are also the stories of newcomers, from neighbouring countries and from as far afield as Pakistan and Rwanda, seeking a secure future in those very promises.
The narratives, collected by researchers, journalists and writers, reflect the many facets of South Africas post-apartheid decades. Taken together they give voice to the emotions and relations emanating from a paradoxical place of outrage and hope, violence and solidarity. They speak of intersections between people and their pasts, and of how, in the making of selves and the other they are also shaping South Africa. Underlying these accounts is a nostalgia for an imagined future that can never be realised. These are stories of forever seeking a place called home.
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This careful collection gives the reader an intimate look into the lives of migrants, the people they find along their journeys and the worlds they inevitably create together. It also conveys the complexity and contradictions of experiences of migration and makes plain that experience is inseparable from personal and political belonging, and perhaps even what it means to be human. From its incisive introductory chapter, this unapologetically local book nonetheless imparts important lessons for a global audience, from the expert to the casual reader, on how people make sense of movement theirs or that of others within and across borders.
E Tendayi Achiume, United Nations Special Rapporteur
on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance
on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance
Like all excellent ideas, the one that animates this book is both disarmingly simple and powerfully original. So much has been written on xenophobia in South Africa, and yet so few have listened with care and precision to the voices of the ordinary people at the coalface. This book unsettles so many old assumptions, like who is host and who visitor, who belongs and what indeed it might mean to belong at all. It does this simply by creating a space in which people bear witness to their lives.
Jonny Steinberg, Professor of African Studies,
Oxford University and author of A Man of Good Hope
Oxford University and author of A Man of Good Hope
These are raw, honest, personal stories some heart-breaking, some up-lifting. All creatively collected and beautifully told. Each story is a study in journey-making. No matter where we may have been born, each of us seeks a place where we will be safe and respected for who we are. The stories in this collection illustrate that no journey is easy each act of leaving and each attempt to begin again is tough. At their core however, these stories grapple with the making of a nation. They teach us about urban poverty and womens struggles for space and freedom and of course they speak of racism. Taken together, these narratives illustrate the quest for dignity and so they tell the story of humanity and striving and ambition in the midst of profound difficulty. This book speaks to South African and African concerns but at its heart, it documents a set of global phenomena that are important to anyone who cares about the state of the world today.
Sisonke Msimang, activist and author of
Always Another Country
Always Another Country
I WANT TO GO
HOME FOREVER
HOME FOREVER
I WANT TO GO
HOME FOREVER
HOME FOREVER
STORIES OF BECOMING AND BELONGING IN SOUTH AFRICA'S GREAT METROPOLIS
EDITED BY
LOREN B LANDAU AND TANYA PAMPALONE
Published in South Africa by:
Wits University Press
1 Jan Smuts Avenue
Johannesburg, 2001
www.witspress.co.za
Compilation Loren B Landau and Tanya Pampalone 2018
Chapters Individual contributors 2018
Published edition Wits University Press 2018
First published 2018
http://dx.doi.org.10.18772/22018082217
978-1-77614-221-7 (Print)
978-1-77614-222-4 (Web PDF)
978-1-77614-231-6 (EPUB)
978-1-77614-270-5 (MOBI)
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Project manager: Inga Norenius
Copy editor: Inga Norenius
Proofreader: Danya Risti-Schacherl
Cover and book design: Peter Bosman Design
Cover artwork: Senzo Shabangu
Maps: Miriam Maina, redrawn by Jabedi Maps
Photographs: Madelene Cronje, Mark Lewis and Oupa Nkosi
Typesetter: Newgen
Typeset in 10.5 point Sabon
We are deeply grateful for a Constitution that encompasses all that is good in us and a constitutional order that protects our hard-won freedom. Mindful of our gains, we nevertheless know that a long, long road lies ahead, with many twists and turns, sometimes through difficult and trying times. Poverty, ill health and hunger still stalk our land. Greed and avarice show their ugly faces. Xenophobia and intolerance play their mischief in our beautiful land.
AHMED KATHRADA, SPEAKING AT NELSON MANDELAS FUNERAL IN QUNU,
EASTERN CAPE, DECEMBER 2015
EASTERN CAPE, DECEMBER 2015
Contents
by Karabo K Kgoleng
by Loren B Landau and Tanya Pampalone
Interviewed by Eliot Moleba
Interviewed by Nedson Pophiwa
Interviewed by Ryan Lenora Brown
Interviewed by Oupa Nkosi
Interviewed by Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
Interviewed by Tanya Pampalone
Interviewed by Thandiwe Ntshinga
Interviewed by Ragi Bashonga
Interviewed by Dudu Ndlovu
Interviewed by Greta Schuler
Interviewed by Suzy Bernstein
Interviewed by Tanya Zack
Interviewed by Kwanele Sosibo
Not the narrators real name
Foreword
I have a deep, personal connection with migration. My parents met in Bloemfontein during apartheid. They were from a different province, migrant workers living as foreigners in the Free State, given the influx control laws of the time. Soon after I was born, our small family moved to Mmabatho, in the bantustan state of Bophuthatswana. In 1988, when I was seven, political strife forced us to flee to Botswana. During the process of moving, my father, sister and grandmother nearly died in a car accident that took place under mysterious circumstances, so we continued to live with fear and insecurity. My father wouldnt say why, but it had to do with Lucas Mangope, the president of Bophuthatswana. The Anglican Church ended up giving my father a job and providing comfortable shelter and school for my sister and me in Botswana. My parents always told us that one day, we would go back home to South Africa.
When my baby sister and I started at our new school, it wasnt easy to explain where exactly we came from. For her, it didnt really matter because five-year-olds have little awareness of such things and adapt easily. I, however, was still traumatised by the car accident and, although I was little, I knew exactly what was going on. I also knew it was not likely that I would ever see my friends and old teachers again. Its bad enough being the new kid in school, but having a weird back story makes you stick out even more. Eventually I found my way; my school had children from all over the world, and the South African community in Gaborone was closely involved with the Anglican Church, which played a significant role in the anti-apartheid movement. Looking back, I am grateful that I had a strong, caring community to buffer me from the sense of alienation that typifies the experiences of many migrants across Africa. Also, my family remained intact and we were comforted and fortified by the love and protection of our parents.
During quiet time at home, my parents would tell us stories about South Africa, insisting that we came from a country of brave and talented people, and it was to South Africa that we belonged. They would play songs that were banned at home, by musicians like Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela. My father had a personal connection with the latter because they attended the same school and the story of Sophiatown tied in with their respective lives. My father had begun his priesthood there, in the township made famous by the forced removals of 1956, which split up the multiracial community and relocated families to Soweto and other areas. His political awareness and quiet activism began during those years. When my parents told us about the Soweto riots of 1976, my mother would relate how they started outside Morris Isaacson, the high school where she was working as a maths student teacher. It wasnt long after that she left for Bloemfontein a safer and more stable environment to study nursing. Around the same time my father also relocated to Bloemfontein from Soweto for similar reasons. Even before I was born, my parents had to migrate from the places that they knew as home.
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