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sparkly wrote:hardwood wrote:It will only get worse. The attacks have support from "high levels of govt". Foreigners should flee when there is still time....
ANC governmemt has failed to uplift the masses from poverty. Whem the masses are done with foreigners, they will go for the ruling elite. In context he is specifically talking about Hillbrow where the foreigners recently attacked cops who were raiding counterfeit goods. The inner city of Johannesburg suffered a chronic decline after the middle class abandoned it. Same thing @mugundaman tries to convince Nairobi middle class to do. Quote:Hillbrow ( /ˈhɪlbroʊ/) is an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is known for its high levels of population density, unemployment, poverty, prostitution[2] and crime.
In the 1970s it was an Apartheid-designated "whites only" area but soon became a "grey area", where people of different ethnicities lived together. It acquired a cosmopolitan and politically progressive feel, and was one of the first identifiable gay and lesbian areas in urban South Africa. However, due to the mass growth of the population of poor and unemployed blacks after the end of Apartheid, crime soared and the streets became strewn with rubbish.[3] This, together with lack of investment and fear led to an exodus of middle class residents in the 1980s and the decay of major buildings, leaving in its wake an urban slum by the 1990s.[4]
Today, the majority of the residents are incoming migrants from the townships, rural areas and the rest of Africa, many living in abject poverty. An urban regeneration programme is underway.
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