#SAYNOTOXENOPHOBIA

#SAYNOTOXENOPHOBIA

Xenophobia is the irrational fear and destruct of that which is perceived  to be foreign or strange, the #saynotoxenophobia  movement started after foreigners felt that they were being discriminated against and that they should go back to where they came from.

Makwerekwere is what they would call them, that name is not only hurtful to foreigners but demeaning, its discriminating them based on their values and culture, the #saynotoxenophobia started when foreigners were burnt, beaten and even killed because of the stereotype that went around because South Africans felt that their jobs were being taken away from them and that foreigners are bringing negativity around different places they reside in.

The videos and pictures of cruel behavior towards the whole situation involving foreigners went viral on social media networks, video of men being burnt and beaten badly, the use of social media brought the attention to other different people across cultures as to how bad this situation was, it was pure inhuman and the disregard of other peoples ways of living.

This also brought the negative attention to our nation, we have different investors across the world who would be afraid to invest, because they would feel afraid of being attacked, tourists as well who would not want to visit our country, the use of social media brought a negative publicity for those who saw the videos across the world, this also affected our economy negatively as investors withdrew their investments

The use of social media regarding this movement was portrayed in a negative way as well as others condemning this kind of behavior, due to the fact that different platforms of social networks were sharing videos that brought and distress to other people, disregarding other families feelings of how they would receive their loved ones death, as well as being in support of the movement, defending these hardworking people,as social media should be used in a sense of bringing positivity to others and not hurt people or be insensitive to their feeling

#FEESMUSTFALL

#FEESMUSTFALL STUDENT MOVEMENT

The #feesmustfall was a student protest movement that aimed at bringing awareness of increasing of fees in the South African universities, it was a movement that started in mid October 2015, by University of Witwatersrand SRC, that protest went on to other universities that joined in to the movement as, universities of Cape town and Rhodes Universities

As seen when the movement began, a lot of students took to social media to voice out the opinions in regard with the feesmustall movement, many supported the movement as they felt that it was indeed a tie to change, that the education system should be on their side, as many were struggling to pay their fees,the social media played a very big role in making awareness as well as recruiting masses of people to take part in this historic role, statistics even show just how much and how successful it was when people did indeed take part in different platform of social media

If it were not for social media, this movement would not have gained much publicity as it has, even our local celebrities took part in supporting the protest, some of them also experienced hardships going through University and having to raise money to pay the fees, that to them became a validation that indeed they had to render their support and follow this movement

As successful as the protest were, there we still challenges regarding the student protest, the police became part of it and things would take a different turn, there were a lot of students who were hurt by the police shootings and throwing teargas at them, most of them were arrested and had to be released on bail, the challenge became too much as now it was becoming a war zone, instead of a peaceful movement it was suppose to be, even the student movement leader Mcebo Dlamini was arrested for students even taking their movement further and ending up vandalizing buildings

The use of social media is very important, how students used this platform to gain attention and publicity was in a positive way, many would use this platform in a negative way that it would have sent out the wrong message to the public, and portrayed the movement in a negative way, it is of grate importance that the safety use of different platforms of social media be used in a way that would be beneficial or send a massage that will impact others, look at how the social media attracted people from all works of life, that in the end this movement became a success, and what the students were fighting for brought a consensus regarding the feesmustfall movement.