As for Oscar Pistorius, I thank Zimbabwe's Mugabe

My mother always said in every bad person, there is a little good. I was watching the proceedings at the Oscar Pistorius case on Sky TV at the comfort of my safe home in the UK. My mind lingered back in the past 40 years of my memory of life. I was thinking about issues of security and how in the UK it is rare to think about anybody feeling so insecure that he becomes a security threat himself.

I was thinking about the insecurity reasons that made me leave Zimbabwe in the 80s and how even more insecure I felt in refuge in South Africa where Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend using a fire-arm.

Prestorius  told the Court of Law that he used his weapon of personal protection as a National Protection weapon as those used by Mugabe Police in Zimbabwe. Prestorious used his personal protection gun to protect people who were threatened with violence in the streets. In all occasions, Prestorious would solve a problem using his gun before calling the Police. He protected a woman who was being lynched before calling the Police. He produced a fire-arm to protect a taxi war victim before calling the police. He shot his girlfriend and claiming that he suspected her to be an intruder before calling the Police.

In Mugabe's Zimbabwe, I can sense safety than I would in South Africa. In Mugabe's Zimbabwe you can't shoot at an unseen intruder in your toilet without evidence of being pointed with a firearm or knife by them. In Mugabe's Zimbabwe you would be required by law to call the Police first if an intruder is suspected in your bathroom. There are a million reasons why you can't shoot at a threat you can't see properly in Zimbabwe. These reasons range from a mentally challenged person finding his way into your bathroom at night to a sleep walker.  It could be your mother in Law who paid a visit while you were asleep and was let into the house by your girlfriend. It could be Policeman sneaking into your house to raid you for the crime of using marijuana. It could be a wizard or anything that has an aim of killing you. For this reason, in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, you can't plead innocent for a serious crime of shooting at a target that you did not identify and fully assess as a threat to your personal life.

Intruders in South Africa are Black people who were denied equal economical chance by many years of South African colonialism since year 1752. Oscar Pistorius describes these hungry people as "them". This them means "Blacks" in apartheid intoxicated South Africa. God help my tongue to pronounce the words "thank you Mugabe" because no one calls black people them on Zimbabwean soil.

This "them" separates the Blacks from the "us" who are White and chosen in Apartheid language. Blacks have been shot by gun intoxicated Whites in South Africa thousands of times at the excuse that "I mistaken him for a Baboon". Many whites in South Africa have shot their own children claiming I thought it was "them" intruding my house.

In Kwekwe, Zimbabwe a few years ago. A White farmer shot a black person in his farm and said he thought he was a monkey. Are personal protection guns used to shoot monkeys?

The Prestorious case is on International Television because Oscar shot a White girl. So many blacks have been shot in South African farms using so called personal protection fire-arms and being confused with monkeys and the cases do not attract International attention.

Blacks are still called "them" in their own country. South African Blacks are labelled as a problem in their own habitant and they are called immigration problems when they travel abroad.

There is no place on Earth where Black South Africans are accepted. If you can't be accepted in your own country and you have people carrying guns specially for the purpose of killing you then you have no home on Earth. For that reason, I think the Mugabe approach in South Africa can create a place on Earth for Black South Africans.

My life has been marred by Mugabe's failures in managing Zimbabwe especially in the 1980s when he killed Zimbabweans in thousands using the power of a gun. When I left Zimbabwe in 1989 to seek refuge in South Africa I found that the gun risk against a black man was higher in South Africa. The only difference that gave me comfort in South Africa was that a South African gun would not target me for belonging to a certain political party but was as random as death itself.

Although South Africans can claim a better overall life that Zimbabweans, I believe one of the core reasons why the ANC was formed was to remove ancient curtains of treating Blacks as unwanted things rather than perfect human beings who have a proud country to call home.

After 20 years of independence, no South African White man should talk a language of a spoilt racist like Prestorious.

 Prestorious claims to be a White man living in new South African but still tells the court that "they spoke a language that I did not understand" God help me to say thank you Mugabe because I detest that language if it were spoken in Zimbabwe. If you are a South African born and people speak Zulu, Xhosa, Shangaan or Sotho and you don't understand it, then what are you? Is Oscar South African? What is the definition of a South African?

In civilised Britain, you can come and live for 30 years and still struggle with your little English, but you can't tell the Court of Law on British soil that the British people spoke a language that you did not understand.

This Prestorious case leaves me with a strong feeling that Reeva Staankap was murdered by a racist boyfriend who has spent all his life training to kill South African Blacks in South Africa. If this was the case in Zimbabwe, I would loudly say "rain on them Mugabe". I do not want to live in a World where all systems are blind to see hate against the colour of my skin.

God help Black South Africans create a lovely gun-free home for themselves as it is in Zimbabwe or the United Kingdom. God help the Reeva Stankap family find peace in a country where racial hate created by apartheid is now costing their beautiful and loved Reeva.