SOUTH AFRICA’S FOREIGN ELEMENT: XENOPHOBIC OR CRIMINAL?

The recent xenophobic attacks upon Foreign -Nationals by locals in Soweto; looting and killings, due to a shooting and murder of a local youngster, who was shot and murdered  by a Foreign National store owner,  raises a number of questions about South Africa’s diplomatic stance on Trade Relations  between locals and  Foreign Elements within South Africa’s borders.

A number of Foreigners are striving in their business exchange with the support  of locals here in South Africa. Most of these foreigner-nationals are known to be of Pakistani and Somali nationalities and descents 

Generally asked instigating questions about the foreign-national's tuck-shops in South African  neighbourhoods:

• Who is responsible for these Foreign Nationals ?
•   Why do they sell their goods so cheaply?
•  Why is the government quiet about their trade in our neighbourhoods ?
• Who regulates their trading position within the South African business framework
• Is love and understanding enough to keep our fellow foreign brothers and sisters taking bread-and-butter  from the locals’ hands.
• When it comes to generating money, who comes first? South Africans or Foreigners?
•  Does South Africa belong to South Africans?  
• Who is funding this ubiquitous franchise? 
• Where exactly do these foreign-nationals come from?
• Who has more 'rights' when trading within South Africa?  
• Are the foreign-national taking South Africans' jobs?
• Is the South African government ignoring its citizen's grievances on jobs and job creation?
• Why are these foreign-national hiring their own countrymen?  
• One last fundamental question is: Are Islamic core taking over the South African monetary generator by erasing the nationality element – the people of South Africa?

I remember writing a piece commiserating  with our foreign brothers and sisters :

‘Xenophobia attacks are a Human Rights violation in any country. South Africans are faced with a quandary of finding jobs and fighting cheap labor. Foreign nationals are not to blame for being used as tools of cheap labor, because their destitution is a position of exploitation. Our government is not fully in touch with ordinary South Africans that roam in our streets daily. The South African government must come up with a strategic plan that will benefit hard working South Africans and those who are prepared to build our country, by creating peace in their families and community, thus prosper in their own country.’

The South African government needs to gather the business community and money generators in our communities into talks about the Economic Situation in South Africa, Economic Building and National Investment.

A claratone call for an "Economic Codesa" has been heard from key business and political leaders.

Is the South African government listening?     

WORD THE FOREIGN ELEMENT QUESTION REVOLUTION

Linda Sakazi Thwala