Opinion / Columnist
Welcome back home fellow Zimbabweans
23 Apr 2015 at 17:07hrs | Views
My fellow Zimbabweans fleeing from South African xenophobia welcome back to Zimbabwe. Our country still remains the same with usual peace, tranquility and a source of natural hope. I am sorry for the hate and marginalization that you endured from our neighbours across Limpopo.
Returning home is the only safe and logical thing to do at the moment. Be reminded that your skills and labour are valued highly for national development, particularly in the implementation of ZIMASSET. Together we can work and make Zimbabwe a better place to leave. It is not justifiable for you to endanger your lives by living and working to develop and enrich foreign lands. only to be awarded through hate and death.
The salient issue at the moment is to come back and settle and then have a rethink as to how you can restart your lifestyles after you were upset willingly by citizens of South Africa. I am equally sad to mourn alongside families of those who perished in the xenophobic attacks. May their soul rest in peace! However, we should never lose hope to keep soldiering on in order to better our live locally.
My hope is that all perpetrators of xenophobia under the stewardship of King Goodwills Zwelithini should face justice. If South Africa has no capacity to deal with them, then the International Court of Justice (ICJ) should send in its prosecutors to investigate then arrest and prosecute all the perpetrators.
In the meantime, the most disturbing issue is that, South African government did not even put effort to either arrest or just to condemn King Zwelithini's urge fanning hatred for foreigners. This remains a fundamental question in the minds of many. In view of such, can this be state sanctioned attacks which focus on black foreigners only excluding white foreigners? Or the white men have a hidden hand behind these evil activities by black South Africans?
In addition, it surprising that the west did not rush to lambast these actions as they normally do when this happens elsewhere. In spite whatever it is, this should not go unchallenged. South African authorities should be put to task to account for their role in this respect.
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Suitable Kajau can be contacted at kajausuitable@gmail.com
Returning home is the only safe and logical thing to do at the moment. Be reminded that your skills and labour are valued highly for national development, particularly in the implementation of ZIMASSET. Together we can work and make Zimbabwe a better place to leave. It is not justifiable for you to endanger your lives by living and working to develop and enrich foreign lands. only to be awarded through hate and death.
The salient issue at the moment is to come back and settle and then have a rethink as to how you can restart your lifestyles after you were upset willingly by citizens of South Africa. I am equally sad to mourn alongside families of those who perished in the xenophobic attacks. May their soul rest in peace! However, we should never lose hope to keep soldiering on in order to better our live locally.
In the meantime, the most disturbing issue is that, South African government did not even put effort to either arrest or just to condemn King Zwelithini's urge fanning hatred for foreigners. This remains a fundamental question in the minds of many. In view of such, can this be state sanctioned attacks which focus on black foreigners only excluding white foreigners? Or the white men have a hidden hand behind these evil activities by black South Africans?
In addition, it surprising that the west did not rush to lambast these actions as they normally do when this happens elsewhere. In spite whatever it is, this should not go unchallenged. South African authorities should be put to task to account for their role in this respect.
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Suitable Kajau can be contacted at kajausuitable@gmail.com
Source - Suitable Kajau
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