Makwerekwere is the hostile term commonly used to construct foreign Africans living in South Africa as Other. It carries with it the undercurrent of emotions — such as loathing, outrage, fear and rejection — that result in ongoing and repeated xenophobic attacks, the worst and most widespread of which occurred in 2008. The term is an onomatopoeic representation of the ‘unintelligible’ sounds of the languages spoken by foreign Africans, highlighting language as a significant marker of identity. In an analysis of the ‘ideology of makwerekwere’, Matsinhe (2011: 298) confronts the question: ‘How did it come to pass that in the imagination of an African nation [South Africa], Africa and Africans represent the negativity of Otherness?’
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