Borders that divide Africans were imposed.
In 1884 at the Berlin Conference, the scramble for Africa was formalised. As such, black South Africans should know that these borders were not chosen by them.
We need to appreciate the fact that these artificial borders were imposed on us with a clear agenda to divide us and loot our resources, at the same time restricting our movements.
The current attacks, killings and humiliation of our fellow brothers and sisters are a very shameful acts of self-hate.
Before we became South Africans, Nigerians and so on, we were humans. Africans are loving, warm and humane people.
Our love for each other must at all times see no borders, language or nationality.
Mother Africa is a continent of love, peace and natural resources that can still feed us all should we one day realise the importance of having a United States of Africa.
The attacks on our fellow brothers in the name of jobs, poverty and claims that they are stealing our women is foolishness of note.
Even if the so-called foreigners were to leave South Africa tomorrow, many South Africans would still be homeless, unemployed, hungry and with no wife or girlfriend for that matter.
Our problems are not created by those we call foreigners. Our problems are complex.
Among them is the fact that the economy is still owned by whites, our people have no land, and we are still living with the effects of colonialism.
The energy we have and are using to attack our fellow brothers and sisters should be channelled towards the ANC government.
We must mobilise ourselves and face the ANC government, which is failing to create jobs, expropriate land without compensation and so on.
We still have a long way to go as a continent, but loving each other doesn’t need us to travel a long way.
We have done it before. We are a people of love.
Let’s end xenophobia.
- Patrick Sindane
