EDITOR – THE xenophobia wave across the Limpopo got me thinking a lot.
It was simply a case of police watching their citizens burn, torture and kill other people, black Africans in particular.
What a sad situation it is in South Africa as black people forgetting that as Africans, we may be diverse, but we are one.
If the attacks were meant for foreigners, then is the crazy bunch in South Africa implying that the white foreigners who colonised them are not foreigners?
White people are the real foreigners in that country, but are untouchable, I guess because they own the economy.
I am dead certain that had it been a white person ‘neck-laced’ and burnt as in other footages we have seen so far, there would have been an uproar not just in South Africa, but internationally.
The xenophobia would have been quickly stopped and all culprits brought to book.
My memory took me back to the Marikana massacre where the police force shot many black people just because they were threatening white interests in South Africa, but in these xenophobia attacks, the police were just watching as blacks killed blacks.
I am made to believe that there is more to this xenophobia than meets the eye.

Mwenewazvo
Harare