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Zuma’s son (Edward Zuma) wants foreigners to leave this country. This is obviously in support of the recent ideology of King Zwelithini. The country seems to be switching back and forth between racism in Cape Town and xenophobia in Soweto.
It is no secret that before the Europeans came to South Africa, we had our own share of wars. Some of them were ruthless, from culture to culture with some zooming in to conflict between two surnames. On the other side of the world, long before any Caucasian came to Africa, they also had their wars, nation against nation, culture against culture, even language against language. Slavery was not invented when a ‘white man’ captured a ‘black man’. Slavery existed before then and the slavery business usually occurred amongst people who had the same skin colour.
When the Europeans landed in Africa it is no secret that they conquered. We have had great nations that could withstand their fierce and ruthless power but in the end they took over Africa, erased our history and modified our minds into accepting defeat and slavery. The real question is, did they do all this to a people who were unified?
The name East Rand may refresh a couple of memories about the tension that once existed amongst the Zulu and Xhosa people. Mind you, this took place during the days of apartheid. Why would two nations that were suffering under oppression from the same nation, decide to shoot each other with hatred? To such an extent that certain Xhosa people who went to Johannesburg in those days were afraid to reveal their identity in fear of being killed. There are many stories about Xhosa people being killed around the Eastrand, not as a result of apartheid but as a result of culture to culture hatred. We would be ignorant to believe that these are the only wars that took place, and you would believe me if you are a Tswana youth who has heard all these stories about the ‘horrible Zulu’s’ from your mother. This is obviously because the most prominent nation, after the Afrikaans nation in South Africa, is the Zulu nation. It is the most spoken language in Mzansi and it is the only language that a person from overseas may be able to recall as an African country.
The so-called freedom was given to ‘black people’ in 1994. 2009-2015 would be a shocking period to learn that a group of Africans are attacking other Africans, because they belong to the segregated boarder lines that were created by non-African foreigners. AFRICANS ATTACKING OTHER AFRICANS: BECAUSE OF BORDERS CREATED BY NON-AFRICANS. We then shout “these foreigners are taking our businesses”, well one would be expecting that they are speaking about those leaving in Cape Town Mountains who have literally taken their land, but no… they were referring to fellow AFRICANS whom have once been under the same oppression and have decided to find refuge from a people whom they hosted when they were having their fair share of brutality during the apartheid days. Xenophobia is wrong. What makes the South African xenophobia horrific is the fact that it is given the right reasons to the wrong group of people. With this I sometimes conclude in my mind that this cannot be called xenophobia. It can’t be, it should not be labelled as such.
I believe that slavery, racism, wars etc. are not earthly problems, but symptoms of something deeper. Humanity is full of hatred, and we will look for any reason in order to hurt others. Humanity is in need of Salvation. Now if ‘black’ South Africans were to decide to throw every ‘white man’ out of this country, it would make many African people happy. My question though comes from deep within; after the ‘white people’ leave, who is next? The Zulu’s? The Xhosa’s? Once racism is done away with, what would be next? The so-called xenophobia?
