There's no way they can get rich after only about three years here! There must be something behind this. . . they use ubuthakathi (witchcraft). There is no other way to explain it. (Hickel) Based on a typical woman's response, I guess the nation does not see the global impact of the global economy harming Africa. People tend to know that officials are corrupt, but lack the financial capacity to eliminate corruption. This leads the countries of the South to generate hatred towards the people of the same continent. Their culture's traditions lead them to believe that the problem lies in witchcraft. I believe that if a nation progresses a lot, foreign influences cause a change in leadership. I wish the author of the novel would have focused on the government's decision and how certain decisions were made as well as the corresponding timeline to provide a more specific reason for the causes of xenophobia. A subject that might interest the author is apartheid in South Africa, where a state of racial segregation existed between 1948 and 1994, applied in the South.