South Africans are not xenophobic, they are hungry – Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng
12 September 2019
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng says South Africans are not xenophobic but that they are starved of economic gain.
Speaking at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's spring graduation, Mogoeng said there was a link to economic strife and xenophobia.
"South Africans are not xenophobic. If I was xenophobic, I would be attacking the vice chancellor (a foreign national) now."
He said that the largest African against African xenophobic attacks occurred in 2008.