south Africa lets all say no to xenophobia

South Africa, say it loud and clear: # NO to Xenophobia!

I am at a loss, I have no words. Have we grasped such a level of broken area that we coil on our own African brothers and sisters? Is our governmental association, and political area, so dysfunctional that the signals of a floundering state are seeming for all to see?read more about xenophobia 

v   looking back on the last decade and discern how the internecine clashes inside our governmental parties, exceptionally in the ANC and Cosatu and the broader mass open-minded movement have fractured the communal cohesion and communal capital we had crafted up in our battle opposing Apartheid.                                                                                                                                         

v  We are stunned at the xenophobia aggression that flaw our democratic system in South Africa today. Disgust speech marks so countless of our conversations concerning 'kwerekwere' or ‘foreigners’ that “take our jobs”, and “sleep alongside our women”, “bribe our state bureaucrats to become houses”. How frequently do we blame foreigners as drug dealers and steering the offense syndicates in South Africa? Our governmental reply is normally denial, cutting xenophobic bloodshed to criminality and communal delinquency.

v  That road is hard. Burning, obliterating, destroying down is always far easier than building. But if South Africa is to have an upcoming, we demand to onset re-building lifetimes, connections, opportunities; we demand to repair our tattered reputations globally. As I said, that road is hard.

v  Ubuntu can be an influential believed and movement to highlight our public humanity and the kind of globe that South Africa supported on its re-entry to the global community. But it will need extra than just the rhetoric, branding or police constituents to craft a lived reality for both South Africans and all those others who live in South Africa and make it the varied, vibrant area that it is. xenophobia in kwazulu natal

South Africa, we cannot come to be the pariah of the globe again. It should be the biggest betrayal of our governmental miracle.no to xenophobia

Gone are the dates after states might brag of homogeneity in speech, sophistication and ethnicity - if those dates ever existed. ‘The other’ is us. We cannot obscure from it and areas cannot craft walls opposing it. The government of exclusion and chauvinism cannot be a resolution to the multitude of trials states and areas face in the 21st century. South Africa cannot be a beacon of peaceful makeover, democratic system and Ubuntu lacking grappling alongside the twin trials of socio-economic anguish and the government of exclusion and fear.