THE GATHERER

Repressed anger, eventually, finds an outlet. The ugly scenes of Black South Africans, periodically, mobbing their fellow Black Africans who have migrated to South Africa from elsewhere on the continent, and the rampaging of their businesses, is not disconnected from this phenomenon that psychologists have termed anger displacement.  White South Africans being the target of this raw anger, and that group of persons off-limit, Black South Africans, who have inherited legacies of apartheid: trauma, poverty and grievance, have taken to displacing their anger, which the 1995 ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ doused, at fellow Black Africans whom they identify as foreigners.    Nonetheless, the charge of xenophobia levelled at these South African mobs that disperse from the imijondolo to wreck havoc in cities like Johannesburg, with Nigerian migrants seemingly their convenient targets, is accurate. And this anti-Black migrants feeling isn't limited to the poor. Expressi