Schwartzerwitz: Xenophobia - Don't Blame the ANC

Friday, May 30, 2008

Xenophobia - Don't Blame the ANC - Thank them

As a democratically elected government, the ANC is not only accountable to the people, but also culpable for the society it engenders. While criminal mobs may be directly responsible for the xenophobic violence that has rocked South Africa, the government — and in effect the ANC — has shaped the society in which such horrors became permissible.

Following its traditional trajectory of denial, the government has issued numerous statements since the violence first erupted condemning the behaviour, but at the same time absolving itself of any responsibility.

In a statement released on 16 May (five days after the violence started) Cabinet issued the following statement: "Any suggestion that poor service delivery and rising costs of living is to blame for these attacks must be rejected with the contempt it deserves". (Again worrying more about how it looks - ed)

To suggest that the ANC is an organisation that condones criminality is in no way unjust. Aside from its President, Jacob Zuma, who faces charges of corruption, the ANC has seven convicted criminals on it National Executive Committee and a further five who have yet to face criminal charges.

Perhaps the most damning evidence however, is that its chosen National Police Commissioner, Jackie Selebi, still retains his post (although on extended leave) while facing a litany of serious charges.

In promising its electorate homes and jobs, the ANC has set itself up to fail, not least because corruption has crippled its efforts to roll out these privileges

And for all the above - the poor service delivery, the porous borders, the criminals representing us from top to bottom - I thank the ANC.... of course it was always part of ze final solution.

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Every Pogrom needs an Armband....

Welcome to Schwartzerwitz. The inevitable consequence of 4 million illegal immigrants arriving in South Africa. More desperate than our local folk they are willing to work longer harder faster for less. The immigrants are more reliable than South African unskilled labour and have outcompeted the local folk. No matter what anyone says it's not FAIR on our locals. Adding 4 million hungry mouths to the country has exacerbated the rocketing food prices felt across the globe. Adding 4 million potential electricity users to the mix has undoubtedly worsened the electricity situation. Having 4 million people send home money to their family drains the economy of money which should stay within the borders. Adding 4 million people and not registering them as taxpayers has cost the country billions. What chance does our government of ridding the country of shacks as per the Millennium Development Goal when 4 million immigrants build/rent shacks. Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe....? Just move to a shack in South Africa. On an individual basis this site condemns violent acts against individuals. However as a collective the illegal immigrants deserve no sympathy and should be deported back from whence they came. These people are economic refugees - "not real refugees" - and they are(generally speaking) in South Africa illegally.

kwerekwere.

The inside cover of my Oxford English dictionary features a word with which I have become all too familiar: the word is kwerekwere.

(It may be more familiar to you with one of its vernacular language–dependant prefixes prepended — the Sotho singular being le– and plural ma–, the Nguni singular being i– and plural ama–). This word is used to refer to black (in the morphological sense) Africans who are not South Africans — South African being defined as Sotho, Nguni, Venda and Tsonga ethnic groups (by that measure the Swazis, Batswana, etc. would be South African?). This word has a very negative sting to it and is often used with contempt. From what I gather it has undertones which speak of how black Africans are believed to be sub–human, too dark and have a pungent smell.