A Critical Study of Africa, past, present and Future

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  • Phumzi

    August 20, 2019

    I would like to make a comment about XENOPHOBIA in South Afrika. The issue is not about South Africans hating foreigners. This is mental slavery of Africans and encouraged by those who are controlling the resources. Africans are are suffering from dependency syndrome. I do not have to break it down to justify my statement.
    1. The OAU rushed the situation to be resolved in South Africa through negotiations like in other parts of Africa Zimbabwe, Namibia to name the few. The struggle in South Africa was not about Apartheid, Africans were fighting against land occupation. That on Its own was a recipe for disaster like it manifest itself now. For example when Mugabe walked out at Lancaster talks for refusing to accept the British proposal about the land issue, he was shown the next plane to back to London. Those agreement had to last for 20yrs, when he started to take the land from the colonialists, the same African leaders saw him as a troublesome old man. Today economy of Zimbabwe is in shambles according to the western world but the peasants are happy under those difficult conditions.
    2. We do not have leaders here in Africa only people who wants to have access to government funds. One cannot expect such a person to solve the ills of Africa. When leaders like Kwame Nkrumah and others spoke about the unity of Africa some leaders disagreed with him which resulted to a compromised OAU. Today AU no one has a clue of its purpose if I put it bluntly.
    3. Now coming back to XENOPHOBIA, South Africans are still under colonial rule except that they go to the the same toilet with whites and together in parliament. Nothing has been changed economically, the poor are still poor or even worse. Education system is not empowering anybody like any other African states. Africans are frustrated by their economic conditions which they vent it to each other ( fellow Africans).
    There is a lot to this for example some Africans are so boastful undermining the locals that they not educated and lazy. These are examples of mental slavery that exist amongst Africans

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