Helen Zille was the Mayor of Cape Town and a powerful political figure in South African politics. Her father, Heinrich (Henry) Zille, was from Germany, and her mother, Gisela Zille, was also German.
Jolidee Matongo was the Mayor of Johannesburg before his untimely death in a car accident. His father, Edward Matongo, was from Zimbabwe, while his mother was South African.
Yet the treatment of these two political leaders reveals the deep scars of ignorance induced by colonialism. Matongo was viciously hounded by xenophobes and Afrophobes, mocked with the demeaning label “Kwere-Kwere,” and dismissed as a foreigner, despite being born and raised in South Africa and having a South African mother.
By contrast, Helen Zille, with both parents born abroad in Europe, has never been subjected to the same ugly and sickening attacks by vigilante groups like Dudula.
This contradiction exposes how colonial conditioning taught Africans to despise and distrust fellow Africans, while embracing Europeans as legitimate, even when they too are children of immigrants.
It is a tragic testament to the mental slavery left behind by colonialism, Africans turning on one another while giving a free pass to descendants of Europe.
Until this colonial mentality is unlearned, Afrophobia will continue to undermine African progress and the very idea of mental liberation.
But as I always say, my mother used to remind me that stupid people do not know that they are stupid. That is why it will take enormous effort and time to unlearn these colonial-induced, sickening, and ugly thoughts that were planted in the minds of Africans, the idea that another African is a stranger, that the neighbour from the next village is an outsider.
In this case, Jolidee Matongo was not even a stranger. He was South African, born and raised in South Africa, with a South African mother. Yet he was insulted and degraded by fellow black people, branded as a foreigner simply because his father was from Zimbabwe, a neighbouring African country. Meanwhile, the same voices never extend such venom to Helen Zille, whose parents were both German, not even born in South Africa, and not African at all.
This is the cruel irony of colonial indoctrination. Africans are conditioned to reject one another, to turn their anger and prejudice against their own kind, while embracing Europeans without question.
Matongo was African through and through, with roots in both South Africa and Zimbabwe, yet he was vilified, while Zille was accepted. This double standard is not just hypocrisy, it is the poisonous legacy of colonialism still at work in the African mind.
Both Matongo and Zille are South Africans and should be treated as such, but Matongo was denied that recognition simply because of his black skin. He was harassed and haunted until his death by black South Africans, not by white South Africans. That is what is called self-hate.
In the morning, I shared a video of Zimbabwean parliamentarians exposing how one of the criminal cartels run by Emmerson Mnangagwa’s henchmen, Paul Tungwarara was siphoning government funds without delivering solar boreholes after “winning” a corrupt tender.
What makes it even more sickening is the glimpse we got into how these stolen public funds are squandered.
Tungwarara’s daughter unwittingly revealed how the loot is blown recklessly in Dubai and other luxury playgrounds abroad. While hospitals collapse, schools decay, and millions of Zimbabweans go hungry, Mnangagwa’s criminal cronies plunder national resources and flaunt their theft on foreign shopping sprees.
This is not just corruption, it is treason against the people, a ruthless betrayal of a suffering nation by those who should be its stewards. This is the methodology of looting perfected under Mnangagwa: they get a contract without a tender, it is tailored specifically for them, they pocket the money in advance, and then they do not deliver.
@eNCA Women are proving the Biblical Liliath's conspiracy. They Revolt against natural law and God HIMSELF. Just because u hit educated and u want protect the so called worked hard for Diploma u risk all. They are forever contradicting themselves
@MmusiMaimane The problem here lies with individual current pressing issues. Eg
1. For a Zimbabwean who needs help on ZEP for now supports ANC
2. For a South African who hates foreigners for now will vote Action SA
power hungry politician will vote DA
unemployed youth will vote EFF
Etc
Both are women and top leaders in their respective political entities
But while one's star 🌟 is rising, the other lately seems to have FALLEN from grace!
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