Self-hatred may lead to persecution

In the 1900s, when it was inevitable that the Afrikaners had lost in the Anglo-boer War, many Afrikaners emigrated to Argentina. Then in 1994, when it became clear that the dreaded moment of black rule, was around the corner, many English and Afrikaans-speaking South Africans emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US and Europe.

It is on this note that there are remarkable and common threads, which I think black people in South Africa should learn from, and hopefully be ashamed of the intricate hatred against another black skin because of internal self-hate.

The first of these threads is the fact that the emigrating South Africans were/ are white and they emigrate to nations and continents, other than Europe, where additional white people have already settled.

Second, the emigrating South Africans were welcomed and accommodated by those who look like them though they speak different languages and since 1902, I have never heard of any xenophobic attacks on Afrikaans speakers in Argentina or Australia.

At this very moment, Ukraine is discriminating against South African and African foreigners. The Chinese also did the same during the original panic because of the corona virus, by proclaiming Africans as the most dangerous human hosts and transmitters of a virus.

But we still have hotspurs in black townships and rural areas who are doing the same to black foreigners. We should be ashamed.