Traore in the making

[Zwelinzima Vavi @Zwelinzima1]

Look carefully at these pictures.

On 30 June there will be no march to the mansions.

There will be no march to the luxury estates.

There will be no march to the golf courses.

There will be no march to the beachfront suburbs.

Migrants — documented or undocumented — living in those wealthy suburbs have nothing to fear.

Nobody will be knocking on their gates.

Nobody will be dragging them from their homes.

Nobody will be demanding to see their papers.

The rich will sleep peacefully on 29 June.

They will sleep peacefully on 30 June.

And they will wake up on 1 July exactly as they did before.

But in the townships and informal settlements there will be fear.

The targets will not be the rich.

The targets will be the poorest of the poor.

The migrant living in a shack.

The refugee running a spaza shop.

The domestic worker.

The gardener.

The security guard.

The construction worker.

The unemployed young person trying to survive.

And when it is all over:

No jobs will have been created.

No factory will have reopened.

No mine will have reopened.

No pothole will have been repaired.

No school still using pit toilets will have been fixed.

No hospital will have been repaired.

No clinic will have received more nurses.

No municipality will suddenly work.

No family will escape poverty.

No inequality will disappear.

The rich will remain rich.

The poor will remain poor.

And once again, the victims will be people living in shacks while those living behind high walls, electric fences and private security watch from a safe distance.

The anger is real.

The unemployment is real.

The poverty is real.

The inequality is real.

But the targets are wrong.

The poor are being mobilised against the poor while the real causes of the crisis remain untouched.

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@AladyPL Zahara comes to mind.

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@Olivia_LaGrange @JemiamaTDassen You are saying that in the comfort of your home, go and join march and march bullies.

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@JemiamaTDassen @Olivia_LaGrange What land are you talking about?

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@SdonaG @onka_dave @AyeeNdeM But you wouldn't hate him if he was praising you though.

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@LCabonena Wenzeni uJulius

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@Mkhondoe @Phislash Mnxm stupid comment ever.

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@Phislash So if I say your mother is sleeping with Nigerians. You wouldn't have a problem with that hey? Are you saying politicians must let every Tom and Jerry to walk all over them simply because they are politicians?

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@_IDyan_endala How are we suppose to know that a certain spaza is under an illegal immigrant?

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@vuyo_ro Sizoya tyhini!! Sonqandwa ngubani?

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@sidsthequeen @shabarax @Ngwato10111 Ndaze ndakuvazwindini

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@4x4_MAJOBELA @shabarax I don't think there's anyone in South Africa who is not affected by drugs either directly or indirectly. It doesn't matter where you stay.

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@SbuMaguya @shabarax I knew there was gonna be a fool like you who would say they don't care.

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@LeratoPillayZA

[Bra Poly 🥂💙❤️ @PolySarkcess]

We finally found a sensible South African 🇿🇦

[Mo @Moetapelepele]

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[Mo @Moetapelepele]

You see

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@Sabby_Sabz @WorldofThabiso Stupid response.