Look at yourself, not the foreigners

Racism, xenophobia, criminality, negrophobia…you can add whatever description I have missed. You can choose to call it anything you want, but at the end of it all this is intolerance against another person, race etc. These people feel like they are “ bigger”, they are more deserving of these rights, they are selfish and have a sick sense of entitlement. And I am sorry to say this, they don’t value human life. A boy is dead, he was committing a criminal act, and what do these people do, go and commit another criminal act. Were they thinking about the dead boy when they were busy breaking down the shops, so they can get a can of beans and eggs, I doubt it, they were just thinking about themselves and their selfish needs. So no, they don’t care about the dead boy. And please people should not come with “these people are poor”. What I saw was people who are better off than the majority of poor people in this country, so on this note they were acting as criminals. The dead boy, was he not committing a criminal act, he may have stolen a chocolate, he was stealing regardless, had he found money or something more valuable, he would have very likely have taken that.

Stop running around the issue, the kid was in the wrong, he went into someone’s property and helped himself to an item that did not belong to him. He didn’t deserve to die and it is very unfortunate that he was shot and he died. People are going on about the illegal firearms that these foreigners have, that is not an excuse to loot, and it is not your job to sort them out,  the illegal firearms issue is for the police to deal with, and it is hypocrisy of the highest order considering how many South Africans all over, Soweto included, carry illegal firearms. How many citizens of this country have died through the hands of fellow South African with illegal firearms. 

This behaviour shows the lack of will to get up and hassle to make a living. We are unfortunately feeding into the myth that black South Africans are lazy, they want to be handed everything without lifting a finger. And if it is not handed over, it must be taken by force. Foreigners being here should be a lesson, how can someone come into your own backyard and make money out of you. These people hassle, they look after each other. They have a business model of bulk buying yes and that works, it is not against the law. They help each other, they work together to lift each other up, BUT South Africans, we don’t help each other enough, the majority only look out for number 1. Gossip about how your neighbour is suffering is more juicer than helping them to get them on their feet.

The kids were looting in their school uniform, they are supposed to be at school, but there they were, sowing the seeds for bad 2015 matric results already, not even worried about being caught on camera. Hai man, Shameful and showing how rotten our society is. Instead of the adults condemning they acts, they joined in…REALLY.

There are foreigners in countries all over the world, legal and illegal. No citizen has a right to get those foreigners out of the country, only authorities. There are laws, and those laws are becoming a joke now, seeing how much LAWLESSNESS goes around.

Xenophobia is a crime against human rights, just like apartheid is and the sooner this is realised the better. Foreigners are seen as easy targets and second class citizens and that has to stop. 

The utterances that were thrown around yesterday was “foreigners are here to take jobs”  really, these guys are running spaza shops, they are even employing South African is most instances, they sell cheaper to the poor people. Strange thing is those poor people have to fork out money for taxi fares to  go to town, buy groceries from the big supermarkets, thus making the rich richer and the poor poorer, so who won, and they win in turn complain about that as well.

South Africa has been liberated from apartheid, but it looks like people are now self-oppressed.

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