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You kids just learnt how to read for fun at school because what you are saying is not true and has been debunked many times.
Our people were often harassed, sold out, deported, and also heavily surveilled in those countries. Our camps were easily found because our people’s positions were compromised by locals. MK soldiers were only allowed to stay in designated camps for a short space of time.
At the slightest pressure from world powers, these countries would request that we leave, and we did so, because we understood that our struggle was ours. In fact, by the late 1960s, our military veterans were asked to shut down their offices; they respected that decision and we went to the Soviet Union, closing down our offices in Lusaka, Zambia and Tanzania.
We never left in our millions to burden our neighbour’s resources; we never went to other African nations to directly compete as labor and for parts of their economy; we never stayed beyond our welcome; we didn’t travel to those countries and contribute to high levels of crime by selling drugs, scamming, or human trafficking.
West Africans, in particular Nigerians, arrived here and dominated the cocaine trade and human trafficking.
Tanzanians came here and dominated the heroin trade.
Zimbabweans/Malawians came here to do hijacks, violent crimes, robberies, illegal mining, and sell slave labor to corporations undermining gains made by unions.
Lesotho came here to terrorize communities as Zama Zamas, recently, an entire community had to flee because foreigners ran them out of their homes.
Somalians and Ethiopians are selling counterfeit goods and food to our communities which recently led to dozens of children dying by the way.
As we speak, foreigners make up 15% of our prison population, well above the global average.
So please, respectfully, sanu thetha ukunya.👍🏾
big fish.@fatherrwethu
One of the many reasons I could never be xenophobic to Africans from outside of South Africa, is due to the fact that black South Africans were welcomed and kept safe in these African countries, when the leaders of our homeland were threatening black lives. It’s that simple.
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