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The present article fleshes out the observation that in actuality what is circulated in journalistic and scholarly literature as xenophobia in South Africa is systemic and structural racism that is rooted in colonial and apartheid history. As such the term xenophobia, as it denotes the fear and also hatred of foreign others by native nationals of South Africa, tends to conceal rather than reveal that systemic and structural constructs of racism at a world and local scale produce and locate black Africans of other countries in South Africa as alien and foreign others that are in the receiving end of nationalist and ultimately racist passions of hatred and violence. In a country that has not fully recovered from the homeland racist nationalism that placed black natives of South Africa according to geographic and ethnic lines, the black Africans from other countries take the place of racialized and excluded outsiders who become candidates for hatred, discrimination, and violation. In this way what is termed xenophobia is actually racism and the coloniality of being and belonging that accompanies it. This article, therefore, provides a decolonial understanding and interpretation of xenophobia as racism in South Africa.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Birth of the Symptom in the Postcolony -- The Anti-Colonial Spectacles of the Symptom -- A Black and White Mistake in Zimbabwe -- Mugabe: The Thing Itself -- Limits of the Post-Political -- Recovering the Lost Causes -- The Will to Power: Giving a Name to Political Extremism -- References -- Chapter 2: The Will to Power in the Postcolony -- The Pornography of Power -- Intoxications of the Will to Power -- The Fist of the Coward -- The Paradigm of War -- War by Other Means -- Mugabe as a Machiavellian -- In the Name of the Nation and Marx -- The Will to Live as the Politics of Liberation -- References -- Chapter 3: The Inventions of Robert Mugabe -- On the Formation and Production of Political Leaders -- The Family, Friends and Colleagues of Mugabe -- The Absence of the Father -- The Over-Presence of the Mother -- The Wives of Robert Mugabe -- Friends of Robert Mugabe -- Jesuitisation of Robert Mugabe -- The Education of Robert Mugabe -- The Prison Formation of Robert Mugabe -- The Ideological Intoxications of Robert Mugabe -- The Colonial Formation of Robert Mugabe -- On the Politics of the Will to Live -- References -- Chapter 4: When the Monsters Go Marching In: Mugabe the Production and Its Spectacles -- Some Uncritical Everydayness -- The Spectacle of the Saint and the Monster -- The Production of the Political Robert Mugabe -- The Production of the Intellectual Robert Mugabe -- The Production of the Guerrilla Leader -- The Imaginations of Robert Mugabe -- Mugabe: The Tragic Figure -- Mugabe: The Traitor -- Mugabe: The Scholar and the Diplomat -- Mugabe: The Lucifer -- Presentations and Representations of Mugabe -- A Political Philosophy of Mugabeism -- The Madness of Robert Mugabe -- References -- Chapter 5: A Career of Madness: Performances of the Will to Power.

That in political conflict and war the truth becomes a casualty that is sacrificed on the altar of expediency is an observation that is traceable to the ancient Greek tragedian, Aeschylus. It is no accident that it had to be a student of tragedy and the workings of evil who noted how truth and knowledge are the first to be murdered before individuals and populations of human beings are slaughtered in armed operations by those that seek to conquer, dominate and rule others by hook or by crook. The Gukurahundi Genocide of 1983 to 1987 in Zimbabwe began with the desire by Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) political party for one party state rule under a life presidency. For that dark goal to be achieved the political opposition in shape of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) had to be eliminated. All manner of political constructions, naming and labelling were conducted to create the conditions for and justification of an armed operation against ZAPU and its leader, Joshua Nkomo. The political and human identities of those that had to be eliminated were changed to enemies, dissidents, snakes and chaff itself. On the Gukurahundi Genocide, scholars have prevalently dwelt on controversies surrounding the numbers of the dead and the enduring effects of the killings. This article is a consideration of the assassinations of the truth and knowledge, the epistemicide, which preceded, accompanied and followed the Gukurahundi Genocide. Truth and knowledge die before, during and after genocide. Opsomming 'n Wysheid wat teruggevoer kan word na die ou Griekse tragikus, Aischulos, is dat die waarheid tydens konflik en oorlog, 'n slagoffer word wat op die altaar van dienstigheid geoffer word. Dit is nie per ongeluk of toeval nie dat dit 'n tragedie student en 'n waarnemer van bose handelinge was wat opgemerk het hoe die waarheid en kennis opsigself die eerste is om vermoor te word, voordat individue en menslike bevolkings afgemaai word in gewapende krygsverrigting deur diegene ...

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