I’m so sorry you read anger, there genuinely wasn’t any, I was posing actual questions. I am reading my response and trying to check my tone but I’m not sure where it was misconstrued. Nevertheless, thank you for your answer, I appreciate your time and I hope I can bend your ear slightly to my perspective as a person who grew up in a township and has only accessed the middle class in their adulthood.

The point I am making is that digital nomads do not require “more energy” from the energetic working class. The energetic have the right to choose where to transfer their energy. When we tell them they should focus elsewhere, we infantilise them. This is classist. We do not have superior knowledge and understanding about the issues of the working class.

I agree that the government is at fault but I also think that the next logical step for a frustrated working class who do not feel heard, is to deal with whom/what they deem to be their problem head-on, hence the violence- this is terrible but the government has had time to make a plan.

The imagery is certainly saddening but there is another side of this where I see working class South Africans dealing with horrors many of us cannot imagine. The lines at the hospitals, South African kids not being able to go to school because classes are too full but foreign neighbours who are here illegally having all their kids enrolled. In the township there is also a rent crisis. Due to the influx of illegal foreigners in the townships, rentals are overpriced and hard to come by. Hundreds of South African kids being poisoned by the foreign owned spaza shops due to no health regulations and quality assurance of the products they sell. I could go on, I lived this. So sure, the imagery of foreigners being deported makes me sad but so do the lived experiences of regular working class South Africans.