Foreigners more privileged
I AM deeply saddened by the xenophobic attacks on our African brothers and sisters.
We are all equal in the eyes of God and we all deserve the right to equal opportunities, provided we respect the laws of the land in which we choose to live.
Let me remind you that 85 South African citizens died in an “accident ” in Nigeria on September 12 last year.
South Africans voiced their anger and we mourned.
But South Africa never threatened to bomb Nigeria. So because of the unfortunate death of some African nationals living in South Africa, Boko Haram wants to bomb South Africa?
Here ’ s my take: Nigeria never loved Nigerians, and so they have flooded South Africa.
Ghana never loved Ghanaians. Zimbabwe never loved Zimbabweans. It has become unbearable for them to remain in their own countries.
Many visiting Africans in SA are more privileged than I am because they don ’ t pay tax, have RDP houses and live on grants, thanks to their fake IDs.
Never mind the other shady businesses they have, and the crimes they com- mit knowing that they can ’ t be traced because there ’ s no record of their fingerprints.
I am not going to march against xenophobia because we have enough nonsense to deal with as SA citizens already. If it ’ s not dealing with news about President Jacob Zuma robbing taxpayers of millions, then it ’ s having to witness an unruly parliamentary “circus ”.
That ’ s if Eskom hasn ’ t switched off the electricity when my children should be doing their homework. Or having to patrol the streets with community members to help the incompetent SAPS, who are too busy blocking all major highways, not really to arrest illegal immigrants but rather to take bribes.
But guess what? With all the rubbish that I have to deal with, I am still in my country fighting my own battles.
My heart goes out to Africans affected, but my heart goes out to me first because we as South African citizens have been failed dismally by the SA government.
If poverty wasn ’ t so rife in this wealthy nation in Africa, I ’ m sure the unemployed would not be looting foreign-owned shops.