Dear Government of Malawi,
We need to speak honestly. That statement you issued about 661 Malawian nationals, including women and children, fleeing "xenophobic attacks" in South Africa is a lie. And you know it. There were no attacks. No violence. No xenophobia, your people were the violent ones against our law enforcement officers . There was only South Africa enforcing its borders something you refuse to do in your own country.
The 661 Malawians did not flee violence. They fled poverty. They fled your failure. They fled a government that has sat on its hands while its people starve. They crossed borders illegally, seeking what you should have provided at home jobs, healthcare, schools, dignity. And when South Africa said "enough," you are blaming us. You are calling us xenophobic. You deflected. Because admitting the truth would mean admitting you have failed.
You have failed your people. You have failed your duty as leaders. You have subjected Malawians to poverty, unemployment, and despair while you sit comfortably, collecting salaries, flying abroad, and issuing press releases. You have asked South Africa to carry the burden of your incompetence. And we are tired.
We do not hate Malawians or any African person . We are not xenophobic. We are frustrated, frustrated that our clinics are flooded, our schools overcrowded, our jobs taken, while your people are not counted, not budgeted for, not accounted for. Where is the money to support them? Where is the planning? Where is the accountability?
You need to look in the mirror. Ask yourself, why do Malawians leave? Why do they risk death to reach South Africa? Because you have given them nothing. You have built nothing. You have promised everything and delivered nothing.
We blame you. And we are done carrying your burden. Fix your country. Ask us how we did it, how we built clinics, roads, schools and do the same. But stop blaming us for your failure. That is not leadership. That is cowardice. And we have had enough.
RWANDA TELLS AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO STOP BLAMING SOUTH AFRICA FOR THEIR IRRESPONSIBILITY
Rwandan minister of foreign affairs, Olivier Nduhungirehe, has told African countries to take responsibility and stop sending their people illegally to SA and then blame SA.
Imagine someone walks into your home, bullies you, insults you, and calls you weak, sometimes right in front of your children. The next morning, the once-peaceful street you grew up on is suddenly overrun with foreigners. The community knows they’re selling drugs and have even opened brothels. Children start disappearing without a trace, and it later turns out these foreigners are involved in human trafficking. The worst part is that because they’ve already labelled the men in the community as “weak Africans,” they now act as if they’re untouchable.
South Africa is home to many foreigners, especially from neighbouring countries like Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, and eSwatini. South Africans live alongside them peacefully, with no major issues. These neighbours work, raise families, and integrate without conflict. So why do problems arise specifically with Nigerians, Ghanaians, Mozambicans, Zimbabweans, and Somalis?
Mozambicans and Zimbabweans are often linked to car thefts and cash-in-transit heists. Nigerians have earned a reputation as the biggest criminals not just in South Africa, but in many other countries too. As for Ghanaians, South Africans once had a warm relationship with them, South Africans even affectionately called their national team “BaGhana BaGhana.” The trouble started when some Ghanaians began looking for shortcuts to success and aligned themselves with Nigerian drug lords and human traffickers.
Today, many South Africans are simply tired of it all. And this isn’t unique to South Africa. Around the world, countries are becoming increasingly intolerant of these issues—whether it’s “Asiaphobia” in Asia, “Europhobia” in Europe, or “Ameriphobia” in America. But people are tired of being second in their own country.
One of the biggest scams going on at airports is Indians, who are perfectly capable of walking, are abusing the airport wheelchair service to skip long walks and get priority boarding
Over 100 people are sleeping on the streets tonight outside the Zimbabwean Embassy in Cape Town.
Women. Children. Families.
In the freezing cold.
A society is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable.
Right now, we are failing.
They don’t want to be processed because:
1) their identity will be on record and if their fingerprints are ran through AFIS, many will be arrested,
2) they want to come back here and remain ghosts.
That feeling when they think you are trying to win an argument, when the entire time you just want them to understand your perspective. It is truly exhausting.