Several key actions that could help are not yet on the table, including mobilising other political parties as well as civic society to fight anti-foreigner hysteria.
Interventions against intimate partner violence may work better if they target the mechanisms that make empathic women more vulnerable.
The 2022 election proved that the country’s situation and its people have changed since the violence that marred past elections.
South Africans need to frame the problem as an endemic social condition that they can stop through deliberate action.
The state needs to act urgently to address the increase in xenophobic groups across South Africa.
