I have no Issues with South Africa, just this

HELLO SOUTH AFRICA


I sympathize with you. I sympathize that in this age and time, your mind can be so debased and reprobate enough as to allow you descend to the level that you did recently with your xenophobic attacks on other Africans living in your country.

I sympathize with you, not because you got angry, we all do, but that your anger was largely undefined. I sympathize with you that wrapped around your neck is the gloom of apartheid we all thought we supported you to overcome.

I sympathize with you that you easily forgot the help that other countries render to you in your time of need, just because of a little unease and discomfort that you feel. Need I remind you the role that Nigeria as well as other African brothers played in redeeming you from the hands of your captors?

I sympathize with you that you have time and time again shown that, through these attacks you are showing of what stuff you are truly made.

I would have kept quiet and expect that things straighten out in no time, but since it seems you need more time, I would keep quiet no more. The most sympathetic of all your actions is that you have shown the world how poor you really are in your mind, even though you want all of us to believe that you are a flourishing nation. You try to enrich your poor minds by looting the treasuries of other people’s sweat, and your police officers look on unperturbed.

I would probably have kept quiet if I heard your president make a decisive condemnatory statement, but since he said no meaningful thing, I keep quiet no more. That king of Zulu, what’s that his name? Well, I’d rather not remember his name anyway. That man who like some other African kings does not understand the weight of what he says is the one that needs the highest sympathy of all. Could you please confirm to me that you have got the jobs for which you are killing the foreigners?

I sympathize with you for the level of darkness that permeates your soul, that makes you no different from the terrorists who kill people just because they are of a different faith. Did you read or see what ISIS did to the Ethiopian Christians, and have been doing to other Christians? The offense of those people is that they are Christians, and the offense of those you are killing is that they are not South Africans. Could you please confirm to me the difference between you and them?

Have you ever thought about it, that the mega shops like Shoprite and Game that you operate in Nigeria could also suffer similar fate like you are meting out to the African and indeed Nigerian shops in your country? Have you ever thought about the open arms with which Nigerians welcome MTN? Are you in the know that DSTV/Multichoice are the choice viewing service providers in Nigeria?


Nigerians and indeed other Africans know better than to start killing South Africans living with us, our hospitality does not in any way equate weakness, and must not be so misconstrued. Here in Nigeria, every other African is a brother, and lives free.

Comments

  1. Ola BarnabasApril 21, 2015 at 5:55 PM

    Jacob Zuma, how long before you take decisive actions? Are you hoping that your police who have obviously shown that their wives and kids are the ones looting the shops of foreigners, are the ones to secure the country? I learnt that you have deployed some army officers and made some arrests, we want to know what happens to them.

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  2. Ola BarnabasApril 21, 2015 at 5:56 PM

    African Union, what are you saying about this madness in South Africa?

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  3. Ola BarnabasApril 21, 2015 at 6:01 PM

    Nigerian government, for how long will you be asleep? When will South Africa stop taking us for a ride? When are our citizens' life going to worth more than it is at the moment? We may not give tit for tat, but we can at least make moves to express our displeasure? Was the South African Ambassador put under pressure without me realizing it, so he can take the message back home? Are the South African businesses made to feel the heat yet?

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