I'm African planning to move to South Africa and I love the country, but genuinely wondering, why do I see so often black South Africans blame numerous other groups for their problems and conditions?
I constantly see this nonsense from South African netizens about how there's too many Nigerians and Zimbabweans, harassing African foreigners in hospitals and harassing their busineses, saying Cape Town is being ruined by expats and digital nomads, and then ofc blaming the white people (extremely understandable and relatable tho, but still). Like it's really always somebody and apparently that can be any group if it's convenient or easy to pick on them. Many parties have to be accountable for their role in creating a sense of social dysharmony in some way, but I just rarely ever see particularly black South Africans being accountable for why ZA has its problems or that the ANC has been sub-par. It is always someone else's fault. Even the whites have made some similar delusional complaints. There is a strong culture of finger pointing and making excuses for laziness or lack of ingenuity. I don't like that I happen to agree with the racist white people but it's anectdotally true and you can see this pattern very often.
But this also reinforces my alignment with the EFF's perspective, because their position is to hold the imperial superstructure and its tenants accountable while pushing for an ideological shift towards dialectics and organized action. The fact that such a group exists, or to look at any of the great ancestors of the nation's liberation struggle, is even more proof that there really is a major native problem, bc the ability is there while in most cases the effort and interest is not. The void there is filled with misplaced disdain for others.
If you think I'm wrong, please let me know.