Wake up call from South Africa: Dudula and self-hatred!

Human nature is evil. The oppressed does not hate the oppressor because of oppression in generic terms. He hates the oppressor because he misses out on the privileges of oppression, which he sees his oppressor enjoying every day.

Given the chance, the victim, when he becomes the master, is just as bad as his former oppressor. There are many examples where Irishmen, fleeing from hunger and oppression in 1840-1845 in their homeland, could not wait to enter the US where they would have the freedom to own a couple of slaves. My Jewish friends tell me that their greatest nightmare is to wake up and find themselves acting in a similar way towards Palestinians that Adolf Hitler did to them. I remember Joshua Nkomo’s last days. Even the colonialist Ian Smith did not treat him with the contempt, which he received from Robert Mugabe.

Piers Pigou wrote that way back in the 1997 when he was doing surveys on human rights in South Africa, “xenophobic attitudes were significant amongst a sizeable number of respondents (25-30%) …but this was across most of the demographic spread.”

There is something else. Wherever great evils are committed, the church is silent. The Council of Churches in South Africa has been silent. It would be unusual for me to miss anything from that angle, because I hang out among the saints. The fact that they are missing is not unusual. The prophetic tradition is unique to Israel. When the prophet Elijah challenged Queen Jezebel for stealing a poor man’s vineyard, there were 400 men of God, responded in their heavenly gowns saying big words about everything. They were on the evil Queen’s side.

Watch the protestant churches in Zimbabwe. Their prayers are long and tall, but they pray in vain when they ignore the oppression of the widow and the waifs, they plug their ears when Jestina Mukoko goes missing.

This brings me to the present situation in Zimbabwe. This evil brother Lux has obliterated the idea that no son of Afrika should be a stranger in any part of Africa. But that does not exonerate us from fixing our problems in Zimbabwe. Even an evil man speaks truth, for the devil is not stupid.

Brother Lux says that the problem in Zimbabwe is that millions of its educated people have left their homeland, fleeing from the rot caused by corruption, outright inefficiency, and stupidity. “It is well known that when there are two currencies, the stronger one will drive away the weaker one.” Professor Mthuli Ncube. How stupid can one be? After saying that, the brother introduces the US currency, pays himself and his cronies in US currency, then sets up a bourse in Victoria Falls in US currency.

Oh, I give up.

I was very upset when I found out that US State Department officials who assessed the Second Republic and its big words about fighting corruption concluded that it was all a “charade.” Here I am, I have spent 30 years studying the southern Africa politics and I had been conned to believe that they were genuine in desiring change. Here is an example of their duplicity. The Zimbabwe social security administration is prejudiced of $93 million. The police and the judiciary fail to trace it and in whose pocket it landed. and other books can be found at Innov Bookshops in Zimbabwe and at in the wid

er world.