Citation

Long W, Chiliza B, Stein DJ. S. Afr. Med. J. 2015; 105(7): e10046.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town, South Africa. gertrude@hmpg.co.za.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, South African Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

26428762

Abstract

The facts seem to indicate that South Africa is one of the more violent places on earth. We have been, and continue to be, a country with significant levels of political violence, criminal violence and domestic violence. And now, we are witnessing violence against fellow Africans. While many have termed this 'xenophobia', a more accurate term may well be 'Afrophobia'. For clinician-scientists, many questions arise. In this editorial, we briefly consider a few of the most pertinent.

Language: en