The issues isnโt them not being African cause you can make an argument that thereโs a difference between being African and being of African descent. The issue is some of them want to rewrite what it meaning to be black. They want to disassociate blackness with Africa and want to say they are the only black people. That you as an African,isnโt black people most Africans doesnโt primarily identify with their race, they want to turn black into an ethnicity and that they are the only black people in the world. Some of them go as far is denying that the transatlantic slave trade happen. Most of these people that think like this canโt even tell the difference between race, nationality and ethnicity.
People like Herman Mashaba (and Vuyo Zungula) are dangerous. People who are willing to weaponise blatant misinformation, no matter how noble they may claim their intentions are, are dangerous. You dont have to be a dedicated student of history to read the tea leaves.
Today's people aren't even smart enough to be stupid on their own,it's stupidity they heard somewhere, stupidity that's going viral on Twitter, second hand stupidity,it's never stupidity from a book though