Illegal Immigrants are Faces of Cowardice

By Sicebise Msengana 

You will never hear about Zimbabweans who threw stones at Mmanangwa or Somalians who took arms against alshabab or Nigerians who made Nigeria ungovernable. 

But you will witness hordes of immigrants from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Zambia, Uganda etc who are prepared to use violence against South Africans and invade this country illegally, forcibly and demand to be treated like citizens. These people are revolutionary when it comes to South African citizens. But spineless against their governments and leaders. They are panafricanist towards South Africa and believe Africa should unite in South Africa and it should lose its sovereignty and borders as a country. But they are shy towards 50+ countries in Africa that prioritize their citizens and have tight border control and strict immigration policies. 

Boko Haram kills thousands of Nigerians annually, but you don't see panafricanists and immigrants toyitoying. Zimbabwean president Mmanangwa rules Zimbabwe like a tuckshop and stifled freedom, but Zimbabweans are in South Africa fighting for RSA citizenship. Ugandan president Museveni rigs elections and kills opponents, but panafricanists and immigrants are cowards who encourage Ugandan citizens to flee their own country. African misLEADERS and reactionary groups are killing, oppressing and stealing from black people. 

People from 54 countries in Africa rather run away from physical psycho-social ills in their countries than stay and challenge existing repressive governments and leaders. They rather have white people (France and Britain exploits and oppresses their former colonies) and the Chinese buy their land and rule them like slaves in their countries. The Chinese, Europeans, Arabs and Indians make billions of dollars in profits from contracts in these countries and through exploiting them.

But panafricanists and immigrants overlook these massive atrocities against black people because they are so fixate on South Africa and so-called xenophobia. After all, South Africa is solely responsible for corruption, individualism, nepotism, civil wars, tribalism, hunger, migration crises, maladministration, misuse and abuse of power in 54 African countries. According panafricanists and immigrants the solution to these thorny issues is fleeing to South Africa and emotionally blackmail its citizens who question the illegal invasion and occupation of their country.