The leadership of MDC in South Africa is shell-shocked by the deafening silence of the South African government leaders concerning the imminent xenophobic attacks which foreigners will be subjected to as from this Sunday. We expected government representatives to give foreigners assurances that their safety was guaranteed.
Instead they are simply watching with their tight lips as hordes of ‘aliens’ stream out of the country citing xenophobic attacks as the reason. We would have appreciated if the police and the political establishments were to rush into curbing these attacks than to wait until people are thuggishly butchered or burnt to death. Police utterances that there was no evidence to suggest that the attacks were coming, are either insincere or insensitive or both.
Are the police waiting to see another human species, being bundled with a mattress that is soaked in petrol before being set ablaze? Does anyone doubt that the attacks will be carried out or people are faking ignorance and only to shed crocodile tears after the coming bloody inferno? This has happened before in full-view of everyone. Known individuals are making threats to law abiding foreigners and we wonder why these thugs still freemen?
Are South Africans forgetting that ordinary Zimbabweans also took punches when the Apartheid government invaded Zimbabwe scavenging for MK operatives? People lost lives and limps but we never complained that these foreigners were inviting disasters for us. We took them in our homes as our brothers in need.
We also ask Zimbabweans to form security groups and defend themselves if attacked by some of these xenophobic enthralled locals. They should not sheepishly submit to blood thirsty idiots who confuse murderous activities with acts of heroism.
President Jacob Zuma had a stint in Harare. Former President Thabo Mbeki stayed in Bulawayo during the struggle period. Many South Africans were born in African countries as their parents externalized the struggle against Apartheid. How dare then could any South African treat Zimbabweans as pieces of shit?
Claims that we are taking their jobs and women are utter nonsense and rubbish, but foreigners are instead creating employment. How in all fairness do foreigners coerce South African women to prefer them than locals? Do such assertions make sense? Should someone die for being nicer to women?
We call upon the leadership of the ANCYL to use their eloquence in imploring the Youths to desist from the habit of attacking anyone who doesn’t share the same nationality with them. This is unheard of, idiotic, primitive, rubbish and nonsense.
We urge the Honourable President of South Africa Jacob Zuma to appeal once more to his countrymen to drop their intention to kill innocent victims of Robert Mugabe’s brutality. We clamor to Arch-bishop Desmond Tutu to cry-out for compassion, love, tranquility and bread for the foreigners.
Information Secretary, Sibanengi Dube
MDC SA External Assembly
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