The jigsaw puzzle is now making sense

By Thandekile Zikhali

Today as I sat on my table in my home on a good chilly Sunday I started taking a reflection on events that I have seen, heard and encountered in my life especially with these Xenophobic attacks happening in SA.

I quickly remembered Ernesto Alberto Nhamuave a Mozambican national who had petrol poured on him and was burnt alive thereafter.

Of course with his burns he did not survive. He is one person I know who died a horrific death which even the famous ISIS or Boko Haram even fear to do. Ernesto was a man who also wanted a better life and future, he too wanted to eat, live and have a family just like every normal being but because he didn’t belong to the so called mighty Zulu, Xhosa clan in South Africa, the people in SA reached a verdict and decided that he had to die.

I don’t know and I’m yet to know if the South African Government arrested anyone in connection with his horrific murder. If there is someone who was arrested, then was he tried in a competent court and what was the court ruling?

The reason why I’m talking of him is simply because this demon which we all thought had been exorcised is still rampant in South Africa.

We know what happened to those young boys who were tied up with ropes and necklaced with tyres in KZN last week, they were actually young boys who also had a vision for a brighter tomorrow, these young fellows after being tied up, they again had petrol poured on them whilst a bunch of Zulus both man and women (I assume) were ululating.

After being soaked with petrol ,then came this other person with a match stick, he lighted the match and burnt these young fellows, even when they tried to escape somewhere somehow would come, block them and take them back to the burning altar.

But what did these young fellows do to deserve this punishment, did they steal from the Zulus? No, did they rape any of the Zulus? No, then what did they do? Their only crime was that they were foreigners only, yes their skin looked alike ie they were all blacks but they simply were not natives.

Another Mozambican Emmanuel Sithole was murdered shortly before Pres Zuma was making his peace speech in KZN yesterday, It is said that shortly before 7am yesterday, and in a gutter in Alexandra he was seen swimming in a pool of his blood. The deep wound on his chest meant he could go no further.

At the day clinic less than 100m away they could not help him. The doctor scheduled to be on duty did not report that day because he was a foreigner and he too feared to come to work also. The brutality of South Africans turning on their neighbours was seen yesterday morning as people stood by while a Mozambican man was stalked, stabbed and killed as he lay in township filth, pleading for his life.

The brutal death of Emmanuel Sithole came to be after his attackers had followed him down a street, keeping their prey at arm’s length, waiting for an opening to land the fatal blow. They circled him and Emmanuel fell on his knees surrounded by filth and rubbish and that’s when he pleaded for mercy.

In that moment, Emmanuel Sithole was no longer a man, a neighbour, a human being in the attacker’s eyes. The intensity on the attackers’ faces showed that he had to be killed, and surely he was killed. Around the massacre scene where children he had played with and adults he had walked with moments before he was killed. Again his only crime was that he was a foreigner not a native.

It has been estimated that at least 5 people have been killed and thousands displaced. Those who have been displaced are now sleeping in those makeshift tents this cold winter in Johannesburg, but what crime did these foreigners especially the Zimbabwean people do to South Africa and their Government.

We know the reason why Zimbabweans are in SA is purely for economic reasons, they came from Zimbabwe to SA looking for better opportunities because their home country could not do the same.

But why is the Government of SA giving a blind eye to these genocide happening right in front of their own eyes yet they are the ones who played a pivotal role in making Zimbabwe continue in its current sorry state forcing millions to stampede on its boarders, why why really .

Zimbabweans are not fools ,they tried changing the situation for the better in 2008 when all the people went out to vote for change but because Thabo Mbeki the then SA President was a close friend of Zanu PF ,it simply didn’t happen as Thabo Mbeki openly sided with Zanu PF even when the Zimbabwean people had rejected him.

We won’t forget how Robert Mugabe with his Zanu PF manipulated the so called independent electoral commission (ZEC) to delay the announcement of a Presidential election result simply because Zanu PF had lost, we know and we can recall how ZEC delayed for 5 weeks to announce an election result of a small nation like Zimbabwe.

I mean if Nigeria a bigger country in magnitude can take three days to count and announce an election result then what exactly was the reason why ZEC took 5 weeks.

In the midst of all this chaos Thabo Mbeki went to Britain and met Gordon Brown and he silenced the Britons by making his famous statement “THERE IS NO CRISIS IN ZIMBABWE”.

Events during and after the negotiation of the GNU pact clearly showed how Mbeki and his ANC openly siding with Zanu PF in almost everything. Fellow Zimbabweans, conditions in our country could have been better only if we had an honest and sincere neighbour.

Im not calling upon the ANC Government to invade Zimbabwe but at least rebuke and wipe Zanu PF into line. We won’t forget the Kampepe report which the ANC decided not to make public simply because it was unearthing serious irregularities on how ZEC and Zanu PF had conducted the 2002 elections.

People I have come to realize that ANC and the SA Government are people who can’t make a decision without benefiting in anything, ANC sees a transaction in every decision they make.

To them the suffering people of Zimbabwe because of Zanu PF stubborn and disastrous policies don’t matter, what matters is the creation of a ready market in Zimbabwe for SA‘s products and goods, so it’s their economy first which takes center stage and others things are considered secondary.

Right now the ANC Government is currently in a dilemma it can’t arrest and try these unruly Zulu elements who are committing this slow genocide in a court set up because it fears that it will lose votes and to them like their friend Zanu PF nothing matters more than power retention.

I can’t say more otherwise I would write a book on Zimbabwe and the ANC but to those who lost their loved ones, I’m very sorry. It’s their time, our time will come up as well. To ANC please don’t just issue out empty condemnation statements when those who are behind this killing machinery are still walking scot free.

The full weight of the law should apply and those who have committed these horrific acts should be brought to book expeditiously.

I can’t conclude without considering a verse in the bible,

People events that have just happened in KZN have clearly shown me how wicked and evil people have become in this world, in the bible its only Manasseh who sacrificed his son with fire during his wicked reign. Manasseh burned his own sons alive in the Ben-hinnom Valley, he did evil in the LORD’s eyes and made God angry.

Let me sleep, Ngicedile. Ndapedza