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Jacob Zuma cancels his trip to Indonesia, sends Cyril Ramaphosa to represent him at a conference that only happens every 12 years, then quickly does a visit to Umlazi and other areas in Kwa-Zula Natal, and then government proudly announces in the published and electronic media that it now has the ‘xenophobic’ attacks under control, but it dismally lacks to explain what measures it had taken to have the so called ‘xenophobic’ attacks under control.
Each and every television stations and radio station now broadcasts that ‘we should condemn ‘xenophobia as a brother of another country still remains and is your brother whom you should treat with dignity and respect.’
That the Minister of the SAPS then struggles to on electronic media, distinguish or even explain the role that the Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba, has played in trying to normalise the situation that countries on the rest of the continent are aggravated against the manner in which their residents are being treated in South Africa, and the Minister stumbling over his words, which in essence really amounts to that the wasn’t well prepared on how to react on such a question forthcoming at the press conference.
One would have expected that the Minister of International Affairs would have met up with the relevant Ambassadors and or Consulates of all those countries whose residents in South Africa are now being threatened and attacked but then once again government saddles someone else to scratch the ashes out of the fire – the Minister of none other than Home Affairs!
What each and every one that is so involved on all of these ‘xenophobic’ attacks where they are demanding that foreign nationals should ‘pack their bags and leave the country’ as they are taking jobs which locals should be occupying is to say the least ludicrous, as most of these foreign nationals are conducting their own businesses and creating employment and not taking employment away from others.
And then those that are also involved in these horrendous criminal attacks lack the necessary knowledge that those citizens that they are attacking are domiciles from the countries in which South African’s were afforded exile and treated with dignity and assisted financially during the period of apartheid and oppression against black people.
That it was wrong to just ‘fling’ our border posts open and allow them to stream into the country mostly without the correct paper work, cannot be disputed, but to those that officially and with all the necessary and valid permission to enter the country is also be innuendo being discriminated against is not only wrong, but actually is an attack on the administration of the government whom in terms of their mandate and applicants meeting all of the requirements, issued them with refugee of exile status legally in the country.
We are 21 years into our democracy but those that are being so offensive against foreign nationals are mostly ones that were ‘born frees’ after the 1994 democracy in the country happened, so that had equal opportunities, were not being discriminated against, but due to circumstances, peer pressure lacked to better their educational levels, and for that reason we find Grade 1 registrations at more than 1 million per year, and when those that actually get to Grade 12 are less than 400 000, which in essence means that 60% of those that registered for education had become ‘drop outs’ and how can they expect to get work, if they failed in having their educational levels raised, where in most cases people cannot even read or write their own names.
The amazing part of it all is that it was sparked by the King of the Zulu’s that foreign nationals are taking the jobs of locals, that they should ‘pack their bags and leave the country’ and now every Zulu national in the country considers what the King has ordered a Royal decree that has to be followed to the letter which the culture demands.
That the President of our Country, a Zulu by birth and domicile not far away from the Kings residence, has failed to date to call the King to order, is not only astonishing but lacks leadership in every possible way where a subordinate in the country, whom incites violence is not called to order and told that his R54 million that he gets from government to live in the luxurious and sumptuous life that he has, is now being challenged, is in no way a reflection on the capacity, capability and the power that a president should have over Kings in his Country, whether it is cultural or not, violence is violence that resulted in all of this and cannot be called by any other name.
