I CANNOT help but also have a say on the xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
Indeed, as pointed elsewhere in this editon, this is misdirected anger.
Our ties and bond, with brothers and sisters down south were forged in blood.
We share a strong and rich history.
Over the years, well before the coming of the whiteman, we have always interacted with each other.
The mischievous, the shortsighted and those enforcing the agenda of the outsider who does not share our hunhu/ubuntu rub their hands with glee.
Regularly our peoples, from both South Africa and Zimbabwe, cross the border engaging in business of one type or another.
It is time our brethren take time to reflect.
Our brothers and sisters must pluck a leaf from us.
In our so-called misery and suffering, we have made a giant leap that has removed a thorn that would have festered and poisoned us.
South Africans have a thorn in their paw which has made them a bitter and angry people who are now lashing out at those nearest them, who unfortunately happen to be their African brothers and sisters.
Apartheid was more than a brutal and cruel culture.
It was a political institution which decreed that the black people were lesser beings not fit to govern themselves and shape their own future even in the land of their birth.
It stripped off not just their dignity, it took away their resources.
Our brothers and sisters down south were broken in every way a human being can be broken.
It took nearly 100 years of struggle to get amabhunu to step down from power and have the rightful owners rule.
But damage had already been done.
And it seems it is taking long for our brothers and sisters to wake up and smell the proverbial coffee.
The fellow Africans they are fighting own nothing that can transform their lives for the better.
It is them (whites) who own mines, lands and industries.
And black South Africans need to be in control of their mines, land and industries.
These are the things that will improve their lot and not spaza shops.
We talk from experience, a successful experience.
South Africans, like any other African nation that achieved independence through the barrel of the gun, have their history written in blood.
And chronicles written in blood are priceless.
They must not embarrass and bring to shame the efforts of their freedom fighters.
The blood of their war veterans, their heroes and heroines did not flow so that of fellow Africans would flow too in a liberated South Africa.
At some point, our brothers and sisters must complete what was begun by their mothers and sisters.
It is sad that they pummel their brethren rather than face the ugly truth and reality that the minority, vauyi/ababuyi, are still in control of the economic resources.
Why must they fight for crumbs when the loaves and juicy pieces are theirs for the taking.
Attacking their brethren is a sign of a hopeless and defeated people.
A people who has accepted to be cowed and controlled by the visitor, in their home.
The most important thing is that we are all Africans, a people robbed and for hundreds of years abused by the Westerners and now say no more.
Instead of attacking your brethren, let them advise you on how you can repossess your stolen wealth.
Africans are a people together.
Divisions, for whatever reason, will only set us back as a continent. We cannot afford to fight or hold grudges if we are to grow and make progress as Africans.