Operation Dudula In South Africa – Why Foreigners Are Being Chased Away From SA
Operation Dudula, a notoriously violent anti-immigrant organization in South Africa is known for raiding foreign-owned companies and forcing them to close.
Inside South Africa’s Operation Dudula
Dimakatso Makoena is busy preparing sandwiches in a school kitchen in the slum of Kwa Thema, which is east of Johannesburg.
The 57-year-old cook has worked there for more than ten years and is a single mom to three children.
“To be honest, I despise foreigners. She continues, fighting back tears, “How I wish they could just pack up and leave our nation.
Until Ms. Makoena takes out her phone and displays a photo of her kid, it is difficult to comprehend the intensity of this hatred. His face, arms, and body were covered in violent burn marks, and he was emaciated with glazed eyes.
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“He started smoking drugs when he was 14 years old,” she says, explaining how her son often goes out to steal things to feed his habit. One day he had tried to take some power cables to sell when he got electrocuted and burned.
Her son abuses nyaope, a highly addictive street narcotic that has decimated South African communities. He also takes crystal meth. Her justification and backing for Operation Dudula are not made obvious until she accuses foreigners of selling the drugs.
“Dudula, that’s the only thing that keeps me going,” is reported.
In Soweto, Operation Dudula was founded two years ago. It is the first organization to formalize the intermittent waves of vigilante attacks motivated by xenophobia that have occurred in South Africa since the end of white minority rule in 1994.
The word “dudula” means “to force out” in Zulu, and it describes itself as a civic movement that opposes immigration.
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically elected president, was born and raised in Soweto, which was at the forefront of the anti-apartheid movement. The nation’s most well-known anti-immigration organization is now based in the municipality.