We’re all sinners with xenophobia
· Citizen
Is there a positive side to the antiforeigner – let’s call a spade a spade – protests which swept South Africa?
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Certainly, despite having to evacuate thousands of their citizens, some African countries are able to portray their righteous indignation to the world.
That high dudgeon can conveniently obscure their own failures to provide a decent enough homeland that their people weren’t forced to flee to South Africa in search of a better life.
Nigeria and Ghana, some of the loudest critics of this country because of the March and March protest movement, are hardly beacons of democracy, efficiency or ethical governance.
Zimbabwe, the country from which most of our illegals hail, is worse than those two put together, though.
Malawi is just sad and pathetic, perhaps more because of the accident of nature that gave it too many people and very little in the way of natural resources.
The African Union, the bombastic talk shop established to cement the post-independence, antidemocratic culture of the “Big Man” dictator, which is the norm across most of our continent, also needs to carefully consider its comments when it comes to injustice.
That doesn’t excuse our xenophobia, because that is what it is.
No saints here – we’re all sinners.