South Africa has damaged the hearts of many Africans in current weeks. The lynching of different Africans by way of mobs with police collaboration or indifference, the denial of care to pregnant girls from different African nations via South African women, the half-hearted legalistic, ritualistic expressions of remorseful about and empty pledges from South African leaders have put paid to our desires and fantasies of Pan-Africanism!
What is the factor of granting unrestricted tour to different African nations when the very governments extending such courtesies would allow your lynching via their citizens?
Not even Trump’s American or Netanyahu’s right-wing Israeli authorities would allow such therapy of foreigners via its citizens. And for this to come from South Africa is in particular galling!
Heck, my OKESS pals and I swayed to Sonny Okosun’s “Fire in Soweto” when it got here out after Steve Biko’s dying and mentioned how we should signal up for the anti-apartheid struggle.
And we all had crushes Miriam Makeba! When Mandela took the oath of office, we all belted out “Nkosi Kelele Africa” as the South African airfoce flew overhead in salute and this is our reward? Not even Botha’s apartheid authorities would have stood for this nonsense.
How can we name out the far-off slave-holders and colonialists when we tolerate this inhumanity from our own, to our own, on our continent? Wasn’t it South Africa that took Israel to court docket for its genocidal behavior in Gaza to world applause solely a few months ago? Ghana and Nigeria are doing the proper issue in evacuating their citizens, however the response throughout Africa has been too restrained.
If this had been being carried out to us in America, Canada or Britain, our condemnation would be louder. South Africa wants to be condemned, shamed and ostracized extra forcefully. It is this type of hypocrisy that make us condemn the genocide in Gaza extra than the one in Sudan! We behave as if black lives don’t matter.
South African International Relations Minister Ronald Lanola’s bluff should be called. Let’s see them in court, simply as they noticed the Isrealites in courtroom and expose their hypocrisy.
With the exception of President Mbeki, Malema and a few others, South African leaders have been overtly disappointing. Africa deserves better from them.
While on the difficulty of hypocrisy, I am baffled via how the authorities and enterprise leaders can have jobs for these evacuated from South Africa when our stay-at-home adolescence have been struggling big unemployment for all these years.
I apprehend the parable of the prodigal son, however shouldn’t the few jobs we have go to our formative years who have been searching for jobs all these years? Long stay Ghana!
As the Osagyefo said, “Africa Must Unite!
Aluta Continua!
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