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Xhosa people get shat on way too much around here



South African🇿🇦 man from Giyani was chased from a march against foreigners that turned to be a Zulu's only march! Tsakisane says " I joined the march in Durban with my head held high. I sang the songs and walked alongside the crowd, thinking I was among brothers. I felt the same frustrations they did, and I believed we were standing together for our country. But the mood changed. The unity turned into a "purity test." They stopped the line and started pointing fingers. Because I am a Tsonga man from Giyani, my accent tripped me up. Because I couldn't respond perfectly in isiZulu, the very people I was marching with turned on me. "Kwe--rekw----ere!" they shouted. They didn't care or ask that I have a South African ID. The only password and rescue for me was to speak pure Zulu. They didn't care that I was born in Limpopo. They saw my dark skin and heard my Xitsonga tongue and decided I wasn't "South African enough." I was beaten by the same hands I had been shaking just minutes before. I had to run for my life from the very crowd I had joined. How did a march for our country turn into a hunt for our own Tsonga, Venda, and Shangaan brothers? When did our languages become a death sentence in our own streets? We are kill-ing ourselves from the inside. Says Tsakane.


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