WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Are migrants ‘stealing’ jobs; does South Africa have more asylum seekers than any other country in the world? These are some of the claims we explore this week in the midst of some of the worst xenophobic attacks in recent years in South Africa. Plus – could you go to jail for reporting false statistics? You might in Tanzania where they are in the process of bringing in a law to tackle publishing bad figures. We ask whether journalists and researchers should be worried. This edition of More or Less was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the short edition of More or Less. |
| 0:02.0 | First broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:09.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use |
| 0:13.0 | go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Charlotte McDonald and I'm Hannah Moore. |
| 0:24.0 | First to South Africa, where a spate of xenophobic attacks |
| 0:27.0 | have been hitting the news. |
| 0:29.0 | Shops have been looted and a number of international migrants |
| 0:32.0 | have been attacked, some killed. |
| 0:34.0 | We got in touch with Kate Wilkinson, |
| 0:36.0 | a senior researcher at the website AfricaCheck |
| 0:39.0 | and asked her what had provoked these attacks. |
| 0:41.0 | When we talk about this, we do need to mention |
| 0:44.0 | the economic situation in South Africa |
| 0:46.0 | because I think it has been one of the key driving factors |
| 0:49.0 | in the resurgence of xenophobic attacks this year. |
| 0:52.0 | She says unemployment is very high. |
| 0:55.0 | Around half of young people aren't in work. |
| 0:58.0 | But while South Africans are struggling to find jobs, |
| 1:00.0 | the perception is that there are large numbers of people |
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