SOUTH AFRICANS PLEASE: RIOTS FOR ONE LAWLESS LOOTER

Former President of South Africa, Jacob Gedleyyihlekisa Zuma has been in South African politics since 1959 and he was among the 45 activists arrested with Nelson Mandela that served 10 years on Robben Island (Mandela University). Jacob Zuma had violated legitimate laws with impunity several times until the law finally caught up with him.

This is the man some Zulu are ready to die for in the hands of militia, Police and Army? Some former Presidents still command followers. It is why folks say a country deserves the leader they elected. Zuma deserves some respect for his past as an activist. Indeed, no leader is perfect anywhere when it comes to hedonic tendencies or misogyny of culture within culture.

We as Africans have to set some moral standard under which we are ready to go out and fight at the risk of our lives. Ethnic loyalty regardless of the intransigence of a man at the expense and indulgence of his own ethnic group does not deserve our empathy. Africans are not blind and we know when to fight against oppressors, no matter where they come from. We cannot shield a law breaker that refused to pay according to the rules like anyone else.

It is one obvious display of impunity when an ethnic group marginalizes another or some planted colonial groups claim privileges over the natives. But anger, riots and demonstrations at the risk of lives must be justified by moral and legal standards that most reasonable Africans can freely and unashamedly support. Other ethnic groups in South Africa would be asking themselves if this latest riot was based on fairness and justice they can support.

Africans riot when a respectable ethnic leader is treated like a common criminal for no demonstrable offence other than fighting for the Rights of his people. When people are suffering from years of oppression under the Apartheid rule put in place by Afrikaners, we should expect a short fuse to let out years of repressed anger. But this latest riot falls far short of an excuse. Others saw an excuse for criminals to plunge the country into chaos.

Like some European and Asian states that failed based on ethnic, religious and economic injustice, some African states have also failed. Countries that Africa has supported and turned into economic giants through slavery and natural resources are rejecting our Youths by closing their borders or sending them back into the sea and deserts.The harsh poverty in villages, towns and cities turned many of us into economic refugees at home and abroad.

If South Africa fails, where are they migrating to as they did during Apartheid? Even little countries like Belarus and Lithuania which Parliament recently approved the mass deportation of migrants are hostile. These are countries that were the poorest in Europe when many African countries were enjoying comfortable standards of living and Firsts In Western Nigeria where Asians and Europeans came to make a living sending money to families during famine.

So, what is the excuse of African refugees seeking Asylum anywhere? Oh, our corrupt leader that violated laws and abused us was thrown into jail and so we rioted! Africans, if you destroy your own countries, call them all kinds of names because you chose to install corrupt leaders, no country outside your village would allow you to turn their land into the same hopelessness as yours. We must fix your countries and stop rioting for looters you should have banished.

No President or leader, no matter how highly placed is above the law. It is a message we must send to the Youths that those aspiring to be leaders must come with attractive and exemplary character. Any leader elected out of spite will also spite his own people. Zuma was a former President. He should not have generated so much bad blood, not to mention the worst riot since Apartheid era.

South Africa is one of the countries in Africa with the highest Gross Domestic Product after Nigeria. Some people even postulated insultingly that it was because South Africa was managed by the planted white population (Afrikaners) and as soon as Africans took over, it would degenerate into poverty like other African countries. South Africa attracted other Africans until the disadvantaged and angry youths turned against their brothers and sisters.

Leaders like Nelson Mandela and Thambo Mbeki proved most of the pessimists wrong because Africans produced leaders that were capable, better and with more equitable management of all people regardless of race and ethnic groups. After Mandela and Mbeki, Zuma got himself involved in one mess or the other. Even those willing to overlook his shortcoming or immoral behavior have been blinded by his impunity against the law.

Africans must remind the outside world that even before Madela and Mbeki skilful hands in South Africa, Western Nigeria was better managed than many European countries and Nkrumah proved that a small African country like Ghana could lead the fight to liberate South Africa. Indeed, if it was not for the mismanagement of Africa by planted Afrikaners and Fulani working for the interest of their cousins in foreign countries, Africa could have been better off.

Those waiting for South Africa to fail like some other African countries should hide their heads in shame. Their reliable biggest democracy almost failed, nursed a military coup and has not recovered from January 6th riot after the fairest election in the country. Before you point to any country, cure the log in your eyes. As indicated before,every country deserves the leader they elected. We cannot blame just one leader, people elected each one for selfish interest!

Africans are the most tolerant people that have accommodated foreigners where all cultures got along until they took advantage of our generosity turning to enemies within to capture. Their Governments have sent Armies to reinforce their cultures as “guests” within Africa. We now live in a world where the so-called “civilized” people have exposed themselves as worse than Africans when they cannot get their way by the same democracy they preach outside.

Unlike Nigeria, South Africa cannot blame planted foreigners within us for this riot. If anything, this riot embarrasses us as Africans wherever we are. Our distractors have been praying for this to happen to justify their false sense of “superior” culture. How fast do they forget the role of Russia in the Brexit and 2016 American elections, even when internal intelligence warned?

We are not going back to the support King Buthelezi got during the Apartheid days while he was actively working for those that were against South Africa’s self determination interest. The bloodshed was too much to even imagine again. There are many lessons learned from those days. This same Jacob Zuma, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) founder Julius Malema and Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, castigated Buthelezi then.

Who is castigating Jacob Zuma now?

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