Xenophobia is a direct indicator of social decay. In every African country where you see populations turning violently against foreign nationals, what you are actually seeing is a population that is drowning financially, struggling to find work, struggling to eat, watching their living conditions deteriorate with no credible explanation from the people responsible for governing them.
The foreigner becomes the easy explanation and excuse for a failing state.
What makes it particularly revealing is who they target. They never target the foreign corporations extracting resources at below-market prices. Not the foreign financial institutions whose conditionalities have gutted public spending for decades, not the foreign governments whose diplomatic protection keeps predatory local elites in power election after election. Those actors are too distant and too legally armoured, living behind gates in neighbourhoods that the angry and the desperate cannot reach. So they go after the ones they can reach: the street vendor from a neighbouring country, the migrant worker who is every bit as broke and as desperate and as abandoned by power as they are.
The poor man’s oldest and most reliable mistake is to see his enemy in his fellow poor person. It requires a macroscopic reading of how power actually operates to understand that the Malawian vendor and the South African unemployed youth are not each other’s problem. They are both products of the same system of extraction, the same manufactured scarcity, the same political class that needs them fighting each other precisely so they never turn around and face the right direction.
Xenophobia is never a spontaneous eruption of hatred. It is what manufactured poverty looks like when it finally needs somewhere to go.
The story of Jesus Christ with the Two Fish and Five Loaves that he used to feed 5000 Men ,I hope someone can get this .
There is a mystery many believers overlook, yet Jesus Christ demonstrated it so clearly.
When there were two fish and five loaves, it looked insignificant in the hands of men… but in the hands of Jesus, it became more than enough to feed thousands.
The disciples were worried. They were calculating lack. They were seeing impossibility.
But Jesus asked a powerful question:
“What do you have?”
Not what is missing.
Not what is insufficient.
But what is available.
This is where many of us miss it.
We wake up thinking: “I don’t have enough money…”
“I don’t have rent…”
“I don’t have connections…”
“I don’t have opportunities…”
But heaven is not moved by what you lack.
Heaven responds to what you present.
God will never ask you for what you don’t have.
He will always ask, “What is in your hand?”
That small business…
That skill…
That little income…
That connection…
That idea…
That strength you still have…
That is your starting point.
The mistake is this: we keep complaining about the little, instead of committing the little.
And here is the deeper mystery—
Before multiplication happened, Jesus did something powerful:
He gave thanks.
Not after the miracle.
Not after abundance came.
But in the middle of insufficiency.
This is the formula of the Kingdom: Gratitude before multiplication.
Many people pray like this: “God, I don’t have rent… I don’t have money… I don’t have this…”
But in this Kingdom, we don’t approach God from a place of lack—we approach Him from a place of thanksgiving.
The Bible says: “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.”
Thanksgiving is not just a reaction.
It is a spiritual key.
It is your access code.
It is your alignment.
It is your declaration that God is still faithful even when things don’t look like it.
When you give thanks, you are saying: “Lord, I may not have everything I want, but I recognize that what I have came from You… and it is enough for You to work with.”
And that is when multiplication begins.
Because God does not multiply complaints.
He multiplies what is surrendered with gratitude.
So instead of worrying today…
Pause and ask yourself:
What do I have?
Then lift it up to God with a grateful heart.
Thank Him for the food you have.
Thank Him for the roof you have.
Thank Him for the strength you have.
Thank Him for the life you have.
Because when gratitude rises, lack loses its voice.
You may have little—but with God, little is never small.
And just like Jesus showed us,
what you place in His hands with thanksgiving…
He will multiply beyond your imagination.
It’s truly astounding to witness the Western shock at Iran responding to its leader being assassinated with proportionate attacks on the guilty parties. The psychology of Western hegemony mirrors that of rapists and abusers: they are stunned by their victims fighting back.
Imagine if Iran bombed Washington and killed students in schools, what would you call it? Terrorists
The U.S. and Israel bombed Tehran and killed students in schools. Why do you call it a "pre-emptive strike"?
Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law
Sesethu Enhle Mboza, 19, took her own life on 29 October 2025 after being brutally raped by a fellow student from Nelson Mandela University.
After allegedly being raped in October, Sesethu opened a case with the police. The perpetrator was arrested but later released on bail. Despite this, Nelson Mandela University failed to take adequate action, allowing her alleged attacker to remain on campus.
Sesethu suffered from severe trauma and panic attacks after repeatedly seeing her perpetrator on campus, the very place where she should have felt safe.
Women For Change is deeply shocked and outraged that a student charged with rape was allowed to return to campus, the very environment where his victim should have felt protected and supported. This is not only a failure of compassion but a complete disregard for the safety and mental well-being of survivors.
Where are the Gender-Based Violence policies that universities are required to have in place to protect their students? Survivors should never have to relive their trauma by crossing paths with their perpetrators.
We call on Nelson Mandela University and all higher education institutions to take full accountability and urgently strengthen their GBV response mechanisms. No survivor should ever be left feeling unsafe, unheard, or unsupported within a place of learning.
Sesethu’s life mattered. She deserves justice. @MandelaUni@CWGS_MandelaUni
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