Around 2008, what is called Xenophobia,
broke out. This has been repeated from time to time and to state it simply, the
South African blacks kill everyone that they can get their hands on, that hail
from anywhere in the rest of Africa. We now have the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and the
South Africans seem to be sensitive to truck drivers and other workers from
elsewhere in Africa. They are so ‘sensitive’ that they kill them in brutal
zenophobic attacks. We don’t call this racism which is a word
reserved for dividing blacks and whites. No, of course these crimes are called
by the correct word which is fear or hatred of that which is perceived to be foreign. I don’t really see the
difference and this is clearly racism but only using the fancy word.
During August/September a brutal wave of
xenophobia broke out again. Instead of dwelling on the history of this issue,
I’ll just post a few of the milder photos and leave links at the end of this
sitrep to an in-depth discussion on xenophobia. It truly is an interesting
story. What I will not post, are the videos of people being doused with
petrol/gasoline and set alight in the middle of Johannesburg and if that person
is not burning fast or effectively enough, the chanting and screaming mob
tosses cardboard and other flammables onto the burning person, to make sure he
burns well and good! Be aware, to click here will be very disturbing from
the May 2018 xenophobic violence, and it is better not seen. The
following images convey the situation sufficiently.
Having
seen these photos, some of the milder ones, we have
the Defense Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, declaring that nothing
can
be done to stop these waves of xenophobic attacks: “The attacks against
foreigners in South Africa were planned by criminals and the government can’t
prevent it” and “The reality is that we have an angry nation. What’s happening
can never be prevented by any government.”
Now
if that is not a clear and formalized declaration of governmental incompetence,
I do not know what is. I use the word
‘incompetence’ in its formal definition, i.e., not able to carry out the
duties.
On street level, one hears this:
The Mozabiquens are taking
our jobs
The Nigerians have claimed
the drug trade and claimed Johannesburg for boko haram and human trafficking
Small Chinese stores in the
malls are closing because of danger of xenophobic attacks
The Zimbabweans, mostly the
truck drivers, are responsible for most of the farm murders
The Malawian truck drivers
are taking our jobs
The Tanzanians are the ones
hijacking trucks and cars
On street level, South Africa is turning into a gang run social sphere
with schools calling parents at times warning them to collect their kids
themselves and not to allow the kids to take buses or arrange small taxis
because of kidnapping dangers.
Here under the heading of What can we say about the future? I expressed the
expectation that we will see a type of Mogadishu developing with car bombs,
running gang battles, attacks on hotels, death and killing run amuck.
Just take a quick scroll through the headlines to see what this
looks like.
In this very same previous writing, I explained how the state and the
government are falling apart to the extent that there are very few government
or municipal services left. Oh, they
are there. They have offices, people come to work, visiting dignitaries can
escorted and shown offices that look the part, but nothing actually works. It
is not strange to make a request at any governmental or municipal office, and
receive the answer that the employee is only there to collect a wage and it is
too much like work to search for a document, or actually do the work of
governmental or municipal affairs. It is easier to simply buy a
driver’s license renewal, rather than go to the office and apply for a new one.
This applies to all documentation. We needed a formal marriage certificate
copy, and the answer was to come to the office and go search the boxes in the
basement for the document that we needed.
A country can withstand this to a
level, if there is a strong private sector. Unfortunately with the South
African Black Empowerment legislation that denuded the private sector of
experienced management and workers, the private sector is now falling into an
equally miserable status. The biggest sugar manufacturer and one of the largest employers
in the country is laying off more than 5,000 workers, with no safety net.
Remember the jobless percentage is anything between 29 and 50%. Most of these
workers live on the sugar farms in company provided housing and many of them
have never worked, or lived anywhere else so, their skills are in sugar
production alone. See this.
The CEO took home R16,7 million
last year while producing 1.17mt of sugar last year, nearly the same level it
was producing in 2012.
And this is of course the
real problem and it is a governmental problem of subsidies. “ … distorted
subsidies that have encouraged other countries to produce too much sugar has
seen SA sugar prices fall.”
You see the problem? You see the
problem of blaming everyone else? This once proud and beautiful country is
imploding because of extreme mismanagement, blatant governmental excess across
the spectrum, incompetence, too many hands in the money pots and the Chinese
are still giving loans to keep the power and electricity provider
functional. There comes a time where one cannot any longer express the
situation in terms different than sliding into violent and life-threatening
chaos.
A historical note : There are other
peoples in South Africa that understood at the time the clear objective of the
British overlords during colonization. Here is a letter from an old Pondo
Chief, to the Russian Emperor in 1886. As descendants of AbaMbo, they migrated south from the
Great Lakes around the 1570s, travelling through Tanganyika to Zambezi where
they settled for a long time before moving south to present day South Africa.
“Pondo people were originally settled in the Central Africa, in what was known
as Nyasaland, but in the 15th Century they moved together with other tribes,
south of Central Africa before splitting in Mpumalanga. The Pondos together
with the Zulus moved to areas around Durban or Northern Zululand. Due to some
differences, Pondos moved south of Umzimkhulu River and settled there with
Mthatha River to the west and Umzimvubu River in the east,” says Maraqana.
To the Czar, St Petersburg,
Russia,
Esihlonyane Pondoland, 10
Nov. 1886
“Sir,
I again write, to you, I wish to explain our present position As a Nation. We
are independent Nation subject to no other power up to the present Self
Independent. The Pondo Nation now asks to be protected by you. The English
Government wants to take away our Country”. The letter provides the details of
the matter and adds, «P.S. do not listen the English Govt. what might they say.
They might say perhaps the Pondo country belongs to them. They might say this
to delude you as you are no aware of the facts, that it is false. The boundary
of the Pondo Country Commences from Umtata river Mouth and up along the Umtata
river and through Gungululu to Shawbury Mission Station, and go down to
Ngxaroli and through Ishungwana and to the Umzimvubu River and Run along the
Stream to the junction of the Imvenyane stream and along the Intsuzwa Mountain
and to Celintcungu Mountains to Nolangeni Mountains through Engele Mountains.
Another thing they have armed their subjects to come and fight us. As we have
no friend to assist us we don’t want to be under the protection of the English
Govt. We shall await your valuable assistance. The English Govt. is treating us
most shamefully. The population of the Pondo Nation is about 200 000. Our
country is very rich in Copper, Gold, Coal, etc. and all kinds of Minerals. It
is for this reason they want to take away our Country forcibly against our
Consent. Should you kindly agree to protect us? We would allow you to open all
Mines in the Country. I have the honor to be Sir
Your most obedient Servant
Umhlangaso
JS Faku for
Paramount Chief Umqikela Chief Councilor and Prime Minister»
How
the worm has turned. Chief Umqikela attempted to save his tribal lands from the
British. Now the white boers have to save their lands from those that
migrated in, same as what they did. Like the Pondo, the initial white
Boer Republics were independent, self-governed republics exactly like Chief
Umqikela’s tribal lands, in the last half of the nineteenth century. The
republics came to an end after the Second
Boer War which resulted in the British annexation and later
incorporation into the Union of South Africa.
We all, black and white migrated into the lands in the South of Africa
and more or less at the same time. The white South Africans have a full
right to be there having migrated in, just like the Pondo people migrated in,
and asked the Russian Emperor for help against the colonizers.
The only feasible and serious solution for my people in South Africa,
is to revert back to a self-governed republic, separate from those who burn
people alive. But, we are also the more law-abiding taxpayers, so, the
current government will not let us go. The alternative toward a fast
Mogadishu is too bitter to contemplate. The other alternative is sell the
country to the Chinese. They at least have some concept of human rights, hard
work and a functioning country. I do not know any longer how this country
can be saved.
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