Xenophobia in South Africa – Who is Next?

 

The wave of xenophobia that is sweeping over South Africa raises a number of interesting questions.

The sudden outbreak of violence against non-South Africans in seven cities widely separated around the country raises a strong suspicion, if not the certainty, that it was orchestrated.  It would seem surprising that so many ordinary people would suddenly take it into their heads to attack foreign store owners, looting and burning their shops and assaulting and killing the owners.  One of the attackers, a young woman, said on television that she would sit at home doing nothing while the foreigners opened their stores and stole the jobs of the locals.  That sort of sentiment could only have come from someone who wished to spread hatred and discontent.  Think about it.  The foreign store owner is a single man, operating a store of about ten square metres in area.  The sole worker in the store is the man, and the reason he has the store is that there is a demand, which no local is satisfying.  No jobs have been taken from locals.  On the contrary, the presence of the store provides a service to the local community which they need, and which they are not compelled to use.  The large number of people who protested the attacks is a good indication that a considerable proportion of the people in the relevant areas accept the presence of the foreigners and appreciate the service they offer.  That suspicion obviously raises the question of who is behind the sudden outbreak.  It seems likely that the instigators of these vicious attacks are members of one of the political parties which have staked their position in the area declaring that South Africa is for the South African Blacks.

The sudden rash of violence occurred at the time that Robert Mugabe arrived in South Africa to make his hate-filled racist speech condemning the ‘colonialists’.  Can it be a coincidence that the violence that broke out at that precise time seems to have been carried out by people bearing a strong resemblance to Mugabe’s teenage ‘war veterans’, who have terrorised the population of that sorry country for so long?  That view is reinforced by the wishy-washy speech by President Zuma, who has established his credentials as a White Hater over and over.  Zuma spoke of the foreigners as being ‘our African brothers’, words that have been used by him and his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, to give the impression to the unthinking Black populace that Whites are excluded as legitimate residents of the country, no matter the length of their South African family tree or the legitimacy in economic and other terms of their presence in the country.  It sounded very much as though Zuma was paying lip service to the principles of human rights that were so much a foundation stone of Nelson Mandela’s Rainbow Nation, while, at the same time, preparing the thinking of the thugs for an extension of the hatred of ‘foreigners’ to the White population, which has been so much a thorn in the side of the ANC.

The fact that the outbreaks of violence have occurred in so many cities at the same time seems to have escaped Zuma’s attention.  Zuma says that it is wrong to think of the attacks as xenophobia.  They are a manifestation of the people’s need for jobs!  That is clearly demonstrated by the fact that the thugs were filmed carting off freezer cabinets!  Zuma’s contention is perhaps a cause for the very ineffective action of the Police in controlling the violence – only thirty-five people have been arrested during the outbreaks, and at least two of those were the foreign shop owners who were trying to protect their property and save their lives!  There has been no mention of any plan to bring in the Army to fill the presence gap of the Police, although huge sums of money are expended every year in providing peacekeeping services to our brother African dictators.  Apparently, the lives of a few dozen foreign store-owners, most of whom are here legally, are of less importance, or, perhaps, it is necessary to allow the violence to spread unchecked so that the next phase of the plan can be commenced.  Looking at the history of Uganda under Idi Amin, f Ruanda, and of Zimbabwe, it seems to be not unreasonable to suspect that the next phase will be a ‘spontaneous’ spread of the hatred of foreigners to the Whites, who are frequently accused of controlling the economy to the detriment of the Black population.  Zuma has already built a security wall around himself in case there is a backlash, with over 7 000 security personnel who report only to Zuma and who owe their allegiance only to him.  Zuma has also gained control over the proceedings of Parliament, where the Speaker goes to great lengths, even illegally as has recently been demonstrated and confirmed by the High Court, to protect Zuma.  The Speaker has stated that Zuma is not subject to the normal Rules of Parliament!

In a blog some years ago, this writer asked whether the Whites will be handed the same treatment as the Jews in Hitler’s Germany.  The rise of the band of thugs, coupled with the undoubted active propaganda that are behind the attacks on innocent foreign shop owners looks suspiciously like the thugs and the tactics that Hitler used to bring himself to power.  The world should take note of this before a new world war can develop.  South Africa and its allies have the potential to develop in this way, and it seems that the first steps have been taken.