Who said
"Comrades, the life of a black person in Africa is so cheap. They will kill us, they will finish us and then they will replace us and continue to pay wages that cannot change black people's lives. That would mean we were defeated and that the capitalists will win."
It’s the Human Rights Commission. Human rights, not citizen rights. Not human minus foreigners; not even human minus illegal immigrants. Simply, human rights. And its mandate is to promote and protect human rights within SA. You may not like it, but everyone has HUMAN rights.
As an MP, you should be well aware that there 80,000 new asylum seekers awaiting approval and 160,000 awaiting appeal. Many of them have kids who have to go school.
But of course you want to be alarmist and stoke xenophobic hysteria that your party promotes.
Parliament was briefed on asylum seekers.
You should be asking why there are almost 400,000 South African kids who are not documented.
You’re an MP. Act responsibly.
Five Mozambican and a Tsonga boy from Limpopo were killed in Mossel Bay following the xenophobic violence that erupted.
Jacinta and her ntelezi hooligans are on record singing tribalist songs against “amashangane” during their xenophobic protests.
The xenophobic violence that is spreading across the country was incited by March and March.
When you blame a particular group of people for social ills, you are inciting hate and violence against them.
The genocide in Rwanda began by Hutus accusing Tutsis of being invaders who wanted to enslave the Hutu majority and being called cockroaches.
Jacinta has accused foreign nationals of wanting to take over the country and being responsible for violent crime.
The xenophobic violence of 2008 that claimed many lives of foreign nationals was premised on similar inciteful allegations.
We want to know from @SAPoliceService@AthlendaM why no action has been taken against instigators.
all of this is again reminding us of the important work that Steve Biko was committed to. there’s a dire need for us to embed ourselves in the ideals and principles of the Black Consciousness Movement, now more than ever. our people are lost, it’s so sad..
You cannot use hate speech, incite violence and then claim you are not responsible for the violence caused by your rhetoric.
You cannot march around looting and beating South Africans who do not speak like you or look like you and then be surprised that you inspired harm.
Bring back intellectuals and philosophers in political spaces. A lot of these “movements” in South Africa have no ideological backing for their stances. People should not be allowed to start political movements just because they have huge social media following.
Migrants are not the primary reason why our cities are run down. The East Rand was built on manufacturing. Deindustrialisation has hit us the hardest. Global institutions that discouraged the govts from adopting industrial strategies are now singing a different tune.