“The African continent is the richest continent on earth.……yet African countries are seen as beggars. We need to overcome this stereotype..." - President Duma Boko,
President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia has spoken out strongly against xenophobia and Afrophobia in South Africa, saying that South Africans do not have to kill fellow Africans to resolve labour-related issues.
President Hichilema reminded South Africans of the sacrifices Zambia made during the struggle against apartheid, arguing that bridges and other infrastructure in Zambia were bombed by the apartheid regime while the Zambian government was supporting Umkhonto weSizwe and the African National Congress in their fight for liberation. Zambia paid a heavy price for that solidarity because it believed in African brotherhood and the liberation of fellow Africans.
He argued that this spirit of African brotherhood should not disappear today because of what he described as a xenophobic mentality that has gripped parts of South Africa.
President Hichilema said what is happening in South Africa is wrong and unacceptable, stressing that legitimate concerns about jobs, labour and immigration cannot justify violence against fellow Africans.
His message is essentially that the solidarity Africans showed South Africans during the struggle against apartheid cannot be forgotten now that South Africa is free.
@PoliceZimbabwe If ours is a normal country, people like Nick Mangwana should have been, arrests should have been made, resignations should have been one after the other. They rushed to hold a memorial of 44 bodies to hide from this reality. Now you don't hear them talking about these ones
#HatinaKubvunzwa
We attended the public hearings—they ignored and assaulted us.
The Constitution says the Bill should have been submitted to the people in a Referendum—they ignored that.
So today I am staying home to say “Hatina Kubvunzwa!”
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#WeWereNOTconsulted
“We can have another session, to sit and discuss this counter-revolution, how it has manifested itself, what it does. This mobilisation now against so-called undocumented Africans, Comrade Vavi was correct. There's money behind it. There's purpose behind it. It's organised. It's not spontaneous. It doesn't come from the mass of the people. It comes from someone who wants to mobilise, very consistent. You can see the result, with this objective.
As Nkosazana (Dhlamini-Zuma) was saying when she was sitting there, just look at these Africans when we were playing Mexico, who supported Mexico against South Africa. You can see a lot of the noise around the continent. A lot of it based on wrong information.
But gradually, you are seeing this marginalisation of South Africa from the rest of the continent, which the counter-revolution wants. And there are people who are mobilising today to achieve that objective. What will the ANC do about all of that? I don't know.”
Thabo Mbeki,
Former South African President.
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#BREAKING: We have launched an alliance called Sungano Yevanhu/Ubumbano Lomphakati/The People’s Coalition.
FOUNDING DECLARATION OF SUNGANO YEVANHU/UBUMBANO LOMPHAKATHI (THE PEOPLE'S COALITION)
Launch of the "LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE" National Campaign