Kenneth Tafira holds a doctoral degree in Anthropology, attained in 2013, from the University of Witwatersrand, under the supervision of Prof. David Coplan. He is a Zimbabwean national. His research interests include youth movements, migration, nationalism, social and critical theory, and social research methods. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University of South Africa.

Abstract
The outbreak of anti-immigrant violence in May 2008 has prompted a set of theoretical questions and a reappraisal of theoretical suppositions. While the attacks have in the mainstream been pervasively presented as xenophobia, I argue in this paper that what is termed xenophobia is in fact racism – New Racism – practiced by people of the same population group, which has characterized post-1994 South African black social relations.