ANTI-XENOPHOBIA RESEARCH/ACTION WORKSHOP CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY, STRATEGY&TACTICS and DURBAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
DATE: 27 FEBRUARY 2010
TIME: 9AM-3:30PM
VENUE: MEMORIAL TOWER BUILDING L2 (in tallest building at Howard College)
Research papers
Xenophobia in Bottlebrush: An investigation into the reasons behind the attacks on African immigrants in an informal settlement in Durban. Xenophobia and Civil Society: Durban’s Structured Social Divisions
Agenda
9:00-09:30 Tea with muffin + film screening
9:30-09:45 Welcome: Patrick Bond, Introduction to Durban Case Study: Baruti Amisi, Faith ka Manzi, Sheperd Zvavanhu, Orlean Naidoo, Nokuthula Cele, Trevor Ngwane
9:40-10:30 Presentation of Durban Case Study
- Patrick Bond: Overview of Durban Case Study
- Trevor Ngwane: Bottlebrush
- Baruti Amisi: Migrant Voices
10:30-11:00 Presentation by Nobi Dube, Ramaphosa Case study and Summary of recommendations from national case studies by Jenny Parsley
11:00-12:00 Discussion
12:00-12:15 Presentation of themes from research and ways forward, with Trevor
12:15-13:00 Breakaway Groups (geographic areas and interests) with Amisi and Trevor
13:00 14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Presentations by Breakaway Groups
14:30-15:00 Discussion and anti-xenophobia strategies facilitated by Amisi and Trevor
15:00-15:15 Concluding Remarks: Patrick Bond
15:15 Vote of thanks: Baruti Amisi
Workshop Themes:
- Civil society, social movements, and the state Explore where we stand in relation to state-society relations in the post-Polokwane period, as more grassroots and union opposition to the state emerges
- Refugees and migrants, xenophobia, civil society and social movements Explore how social movements integrate issues facing migrants and refugees, and how to strengthen refugee and migrant organisations
- Access to funding, capacity building, civil society and migrant organisations Explore access to funding/ capacity building for migrant, SA and integrated organisations, and strategies in relation to funders (especially for CBOs)
- Fragmentation of the urban poor, social movements, and civic literacy. Explore the nature of political education and consciousness, and the interrelationships of protest, advocacy and political awareness during an era of welfarist/humanitarian interventions
- Xenophobia, local strategies, national coalitions and transnational/interregional networks. Explore how people move across racial, socio-economic and political denominations, including in the provision of political solidarity (e.g. Zimbabwe, Swaziland, DRC
Press Conference on Xenophobia
PRESS RELEASE: Durban’s Civil Society and Immigrants:The Xenophobic and Anti-Xenophobic Forces
DATE: Wed, 28 July 2010
TIME: 12:30-1:30pm
PLACE: UKZN Howard College Campus Memorial Tower Building, Room #602
Xenophobia has hit Durban once again. As in May 2008, when thousands were displaced from sites including Cato Manor, Bottlebrush, Umbilo and Albert Park, once again the immigrant community is fearful. As in January 2009, when a double-murder of immigrants occurred at Albert Park’s Venture Africa building, under the alleged leadership of Durban city councillor Vusi Khosa, once again the city’s leadership has been dubious, at best. Attempts by the Centre for Civil Society and many other groups in Durban to rally attention to the coming problem were repelled by metro police (and National Intelligence), and only after a long process was permission granted to hold an Anti-Xenophobia rally at City Hall on July 3. With the support of Atlantic Philanthropies and Strategy&Tactics, a dozen researchers at CCS carried out a major study of the 2008-09 xenophobia in Durban, and the antidotes from civil society networks. However, our findings are sobering: many of the problems associated with xenophobia are structural. They can be solved with the cooperation of the state and business, but Durban civil society is ill prepared to address social crises such as unemployment, lack of affordable housing, excessive retail competition in townships, and regional foreign policy (especially in relation to Zimbabwe and the DRC). On Wednesday, a 105pp. study of Durban will be discussed in the context of more than 1000 pages of research findings by scholars associated with the Atlantic Philanthropies. We welcome you to join us for an hour, to get a better handle on questions associated with xenophobia, and anti-xenophobia. Numerous topics will be discussed, including the responsibility of civil society organisations, the media, academics, the state and business. For the Centre for Civil Society: Baruti Amisi, director of the CCS Anti-Xenophobia Project: 083 683 8297 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 083 683 8297 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Patrick Bond, director of the Centre: 083 425 1401 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 083 425 1401 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Press Statement and Invitation to Media Briefings The South African Civil Society and Xenophobia study (Strategy & Tactics, Johannesburg, July 2010) Uprooting xenophobia in South Africa: Can civil society regain its drive and mount a sustained response? Will government face the facts and rise to the challenge? In May 2008, South Africa was gripped by an outbreak of xenophobic violence that spread from Alexandra, Johannesburg, across the country, leaving 62 people dead, more than 700 injured or raped and tens of thousands as homeless refugees. In possibly the largest mobilisation since the voter registration drives of 1994, civil society intervened to save lives, help the injured, provide food and shelter, collect funds, shame politicians into action and came out strongly against xenophobia in a series of marches, rallies, vigils and coalitions. In late 2008, the social research agency Strategy & Tactics (working in collaboration with social and political scientists from multiple universities and agencies, and migrants and their own civil society organisations) began to investigate the causes of the violence and whether the response to the crisis signalled a revival of South African civil society echoing the role played by community organisations, churches and other institutions in shaping democracy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Or was it ‘merely’ a crisis response
- The resulting and newly released 500-page report, South African Civil Society and Xenophobia, is the most comprehensive study of the state of civil society in over a decade. As South Africa is once again threatened by the reality of xenophobic violence, swift, informed and sustained responses to xenophobia are needed. All sectors of society, including civil society and government, must heed the learnings of May 2008. This study offers the following key findings and recommendations:
- * The xenophobic violence of May 2008 was caused by a combination of deep structural social, economic and spatial inequalities, an on-going reliance on cheap labour, housing shortages, township retail competition, racism, a history of the use of violence to advance sectional interests and a traumatically scarred national psyche. This coincided in early 2008 with a desperately low national mood as the economy seemed to be in freefall and the ruling party was in the midst of factional splitting. All these factors combined to create ripe conditions for the xenophobic outburst.
- The violence also took place against a background of huge population shifts in the country as well as the region since the demise of apartheid. In response to rural poverty, millions of South Africans have moved to the cities. ‘Desperation-based’ migration caused by failed economies and political conflict in countries to the North of South Africa has increased dramatically.
- The abuse of the human rights of migrants and refugees by state agencies in spite of a progressive Constitution and humane legislation provides ripe conditions for xenophobia to thrive, as does an exclusive nationalist political discourse.
- South Africans of all races are deeply xenophobic. Some sections of government and the ANC are in denial about the extent of xenophobia in the population and this has obstructed a considered strategic response to the phenomenon.
- In May 2008, this ambivalence resulted in a weak response by the state to the violence. It fell to civil society to deal with the crisis. Civil society rose to the challenge in the largest mobilisation of citizens since the early 1990s and caused some to question whether civil society might regain its strength as a critical agent of social change.
- This was not to pass, however. While some strong regional coalitions emerged they lost impetus once the moment of crisis passed. Many NGOs returned to their core business once the crisis was over – to which migrants were marginal. Civil society proved exemplary in mounting a highly effective relief effort, but the effort did not translate into a sustainable political agenda to address xenophobia and advance social justice more generally. The moment was lost.
- Since 2008 civil society has failed to address the issue of xenophobia systematically, neither through its programmes, nor by including migrants as part of its constituency. Civil society must rise to this challenge.
- The authors of the study conclude that violence against African migrants will continue unless there are profound socio-economic and attitudinal changes: “Business as usual cannot continue. The political rules have been re-written, the administrative and judicial systems have been re-wired, but at the social and economic levels South Africa has failed to move to a point where we can regard ourselves as post-transitional, as having arrived at the place envisioned by those struggling for freedom from apartheid. Moreover, the period since 1994 has been punctuated by sporadic calls for ‘an RDP of the soul’, or moral regeneration, based on an acceptance that psycho-social damage has been done to all. If all South Africans are to be liberated from their past, all South Africans need a new moral compass, just as the economic order needs to be fundamentally restructured and the social order re-imagined. Without this delayed phase of transition, South Africa remains in limbo – post-apartheid but not yet the non-racial, non-sexist democracy envisioned in the Constitution. And while that [takes hold], the fertile breeding ground remains in place for xenophobia, as it does for rape, for violent crime, for racism and the other social ills.” – Prof David Everatt, South African Civil Society and Xenophobia
- The recommendations of the report are a call to action, providing all stakeholders – civil society, political parties and the corporate sector – with a blueprint to address xenophobia, advance social justice and promote national cohesion and diversity in which foreigners are an integral part of South African society. Strategy & Tactics, the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (a partnership between the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Johannesburg and the Gauteng Provincial Government), The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Centre for Civil Society (University of KwaZulu-Natal), the University of the Western Cape and Amandla Forum hereby invite you to
Media Briefings on the South African Civil Society and Xenophobia study
Date: WEDNESDAY 28 JULY 2010
Time: 12h30 to 13h30
Venue: DURBAN – Centre for Civil Society, University of KZN, Howard College Campus, Memorial Tower Building, Room 602
Contact persons/Tel: Patrick Bond 083 425 1401
begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 083 425 1401 end_of_the_skype_highlighting OR Baruti Amisi 083 683 8297 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 083 683 8297 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Nationally, media enquires about the content of the study can be directed to the editor, Prof David Everatt: david.everatt@gcro.ac.za, 083 455 9466 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 083 455 9466 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. For media based in KwaZulu-Natal, media enquiries can also be directed to: Prof Patrick Bond (pbond@mail.ngo.za, 083 425 1401 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 083 425 1401 end_of_the_skype_highlighting) or Baruti Amisi (amisi@ukzn.ac.za, 083 683 8297 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 083 683 8297 end_of_the_skype_highlighting). The list of contents and the first two chapters of the Synthesis Report (Overview & Prospects and Summary of Findings & Recommendations) can be accessed on the Centre for Civil Society website: ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp*3,28,11,3658 The list of contents and the full report can be accessed on the websites of Strategy & Tactics, the Gauteng City-Region Observatory and The Atlantic Philanthropies: www.s-and[1]t.co.za/downloads.php#xenophobia www.gcro.ac.za/news/xenophobia-reports-released www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/learning/report-south-african-civil[1]society-and-xenophobia (compressed files for easier download) The study can also be ordered on CD (free of charge) by completing the attached order form and forwarding it to: g.bayne@atlanticphilanthropies.org Warm regards The Atlantic Philanthropies
Anti-Xenophobia Project
Publication Details
Xenophobic society and xeno‑denialist police
South Africa got rave reviews for our hospitality to soccer tourists. The foreigners who were at the receiving end were mostly from the West.
If you came here from across the Limpopo or Orange Rivers, you were probably not treated so well, and you may have been called kwerekwere.
In 2008 xenophobia claimed the lives of more than 60 people, with several hundred thousand displaced. A new 100‑page report about how Durban civil society reacted, with 500 pages of national reports, can be found on the UKZN website here.
That good work was but a bandaid. The disease has returned, tragically, as South Africans are again abusing our fellow Africans. In recent days,
attacks against immigrants occurred from Gauteng’s Ekurhuleni to the Cape’s Khayelitsha and DuNoon to Bottlebrush settlement in Chatsworth to
Walmer in Port Elizabeth, where there were two deaths.
Immigrants’ shops were looted, people are being chased away, foreign workers and residents are threatened, and violence has broken out.
How do we stop it? First, politicians must end their denialism. On July 1, ANC national chairperson and former SA deputy president Baleka Mbethe
said: “The reported xenophobic attack after the World Cup does not make any sense. These reports are irrational [and] have no basis whatsoever.”
Even two weeks later, on Friday, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa described Western Cape xenophobia as ‘so‑called’ – implying it didn’t
happen. Police General Bheki Cele is also a denialist, claiming, “There are a few criminal acts perpetuated by young children tasked to loot the
shops of business owners’ competitors.”
As for immigrants on the run, he said, “Those fleeing this so‑called xenophobic violence are seasonal workers who are leaving one province
for another as well as those returning home across our borders after watching a successful World Cup.”
Can these out‑of‑touch officials either resign or at least offer an apology, so as to reverse the damage done in the minds of an unprepared
police force and anyone else in the society who believed them?
Mthethwa and Cele must know their own force is riddled with corrupt xenophobes. Last weekend the Centre for Civil Society’s Anti‑Xenophobia
Project filed a complaint when we learned that local Zimbabwean refugees were being abducted and shaken down for bribes.
On Friday morning, police officers (whose license plate was recorded) rounded up Zimbabweans at the corner of Louis and Albert Streets in
central Durban. According to one refugee, who is willing to testify in court, the police said, “The World Cup is over. If you don’t have a
permit go back to Zimbabwe.”
This man and two others were captured at 11am and driven North along the 2 freeway. “The police said, ’Make a plan, make a plan.’ So I gave them
R30, to cover my friend and myself. The third man gave them R10. We walked all the way back to town, arriving at 2pm.”
A Durban police commissioner, Bala Naidoo, promised he will investigate. But this experience, all too common, raises the larger issue of whether
our police are adequately prepared, psychologically, to provide places of safety in Durban when attacks happen.
To their credit, a formidable police presence was important as a deterrent to xenophobia in Bottlebrush and Marianhill recently, and was
appreciated by immigrants we know there. But government must do more. We need to see the municipality providing places of safety and emergency
contributions, instead of leaving this to churches and civil society like in 2008.
We also must get to the root causes of the problem, to various factors contributing to desperation‑immigration, and to the crazy anger and
pressure our countrymen feel.
Africa’s colonization created artificial national borders in 1885. When we rebelled, our greatest Pan Africanist leaders, including Samora
Machel, Herbert Chitepo, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba and Kwame Nkrumah, were assassinated, often with Western fingerprints on the weapons.
Dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko in the Congo and Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe grabbed the spoils, making deals with the South African
government during apartheid in Mobutu’s case, and post‑apartheid in Mugabe’s.
Johannesburg mining corporates like Anglo Gold and African Rainbow Minerals take advantage of these regimes’ mayhem. The result: a flood of
refugees, including skilled professionals, democrats and activists denied civil rights and economic justice.
That leads to another source of tension: competition for work. Because of our government’s macroeconomic policies, unemployment in this country
has reached extreme levels, with a million jobs lost the last year.
The Reserve Bank and Treasury have long connived with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and G8/G20, leaving us more vulnerable to
the world economy. In the last election we heard promises to address crucial problems like labour broking and lack of health insurance, but
political leaders then forgot these.
Instead there is misappropriation of monies needed for development. Moses Mabhida Stadium was expensive with an initial budget of R1.8
billion, but how did it end up costing us R3.1 billion, paid for by raiding Durban’s reserves?
Not far away are the Kennedy Road shacks. The municipality denied shackdwellers formal rights to build housing and refused to install
electricity. So fires continue, and 500 shacks were lost the weekend before the semi‑final World Cup game.
In addition to jobs and housing, another crisis for ordinary people, raising tensions in our townships, is the soaring municipal services
bill. The rogues leading Eskom are getting R1 billion in bonuses after charging us a fortune for unreliable electricity. They spent an
additional R12 million buying World Cup tickets for their friends. They went to the World Bank for a R29 billion loan to build the world’s
fourth largest coal powered station, Medupi, despite the fact that South Africa is amongst the world’s biggest carbon polluters. They give BHP
Billiton and Anglo American the world’s cheapest electricity.
While we should be ashamed of our working‑class and poor people when they commit xenophobic acts, our ruling class has made such a mess of
everything, except World Cup parties, that pent‑up frustrations are bound to rise.
The question is whether those without power can redirect our energies, and those with power can avoid xenophobia‑denialism and address the root
causes. How do use our anger constructively, to eliminate corruption, misappropriation of state funds, cronyism, inhumane economic policies,
environmental destruction, labour broking, non‑delivery of services, and commercialization of basic necessities?
And for those in power, after sobering up now that the soccer has stopped, decolonize and emancipate your minds from thinking that
free‑market economic policies learned from the West will work here any better than in Iceland, Ireland, Greece or the United States.
If xenophobia continues, even at a low‑intensity level, this scourge will have very negative repercussions. Our economic, arts and cultural,
sporting and intellectual exchanges with the rest of the world will be stained. Bad vibes between our citizens and the rest of the continent
will spread and hospitality we receive on the continent will cease.
And the Olympic Games Bid Committee deciding on which city will host the Summer Games in 2020 will see what we have been hiding away the last
month as dirty laundry.
(Faith ka‑Manzi is a community scholar at the UKZN Centre for Civil
Society)
Izwe elicwasa abokufika kanya namaphoyisa akuphikayo lokukucwasa
NguFaith ka-Manzi
INingizimu Afrika yaba nedumela ngokuphatha kahle izihambeli zeNdebe Yomhlaba. Lezizihambeli ezaziphatheke kahle iningi lazo ezaziqhamuka emazweni aseNyakatho. Kodwa umangabe weza kuleli uqhamuka ngaphesheya kwemifula iLimpopo noma iOrange, awuzange uphatheka kahle kakhulu. Mhlawumbe waze wabizwa nangeKwerekwere.
Ngonyaka ka2008 ukucwaswa kwabokufika kwadlula nemiphefumulo engaphezulu kwamashumi ayisithupha. Kwathi abangamakhulukhulu bazithola sebengondingasithebeni. Umbiko wamakhasi ayikhulu ukuthi umphakathi waseThekwini wenzenjani, kanye namakhasi angamakhulu amahlanu emibiko kazwelonke, iyatholakala kwiwebsite yaseUKZN: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs.
Lomsebenzi omuhle kangaka wawufana nebhandishi. Lesisifo sesibuyile, njengoba iNingizimu Afrika iqhubeka futhi ihlikumeza abezizwe zaseAfrika bokufika. Kulezizinsuku ezedlule ukuhlasela kwenzeke Ekurhuleni esifundazweni saseGauteng, eKhayelisha naseDuNoon esifundazweni saseNtshonalanga Kapa emijondoloyaseBottlebrush eChatsworth rThekwini kuya eWalmer eBhayi esifundazweni saseMpumalanga Kapa.
Sikuqeda kanjani lokukucwasa? Okokuqala abezombusazwe kufanele bayeka ukuphika. Ngenyanga kaJulayi ngomhlaka, usihlalo kazwelonke kaKhongolose uBaleka Mbete wathi: “Umbiko ngokuhlaselwa kwabokufika emva kweNdebe Yomhlaba awunamqondo. Lemibiko eyinamqondo(futhi) ayibambeki nhlobo.”
Ngalololwesihlanu uNgqongqoshe Wamaphoyisa uNathi Mthethwa wachaza ukucwaswa kwabokufika kwaseNtshonalanga Kapa ‘njengokushiwoyo’ – echaza ukuthi akuzange kwenzeke. Ujenene kazwelonke wamaphoyisa uBheki Cele naye futhi ungomunye waba phikayo, ethi, “Kunobugebengu obumbalwa obenziwa yizingane ezisuke zithunywe ukuthi zintshontshe ezitolo zalabo abasuke beqhudelana nabo ngokudayisa.”
Mayelana nabokufika abacashayo, wathi, “Labo ababalekela lokhu okubizwa ngodlame kwabokufika bangabasebenzi abasebenza izikhawu abashiya isifundazwe baye kwesinye kanye nalabo abasuke sebebuyela emakhaya ngale kwemingcele yethu emva kokubukela iNdebe Yomhlaba eyaba nempumelelo enkulu.”
Kungezeka lezizikhulu ezibonakala zingazi lutho zisule emsebenzi noma-ke nje zixolise, ukubuyisela emuva umonakalo emiqondweni yombutho wamaphoyisa angazilungiselele kanye noma ngubani ezweni obakholwayo?
UMthethwa benoCele kufanele bazi ukuthi umbutho wabo ugcwele abacwaswa kakhulu futhi ngokuhwabanisa. Ngesonto eledlule uhlelo olumelene nokucwaswa kwabokufika lweCentre for Civil Society lahambisa isikhalo lapho lithola ukuthi abokufika baseZimbabwe bayanyamalala futhi baphoqwe ukuthi bakhiphe izimali.
Ngolwesihlanu ekuseni, amaphoyisa (inombolo yecwecwe lemoto ayehamba ngalo elabhalwa phansi) basusa abesizwe saseZimbabwe emakhoneni emigwaqo uLuois kanye noAlbert maphakathi neTheku. Ngokusho koyedwa wabokufika, ozimisele ukufakaza enkantolo, iphoyisa lathi, “Indebe Yomhlaba isiphelile. Uma ungenayo imvume phindela emuva eZimbabwe.”
Lendoda kanye namanye amabili abanjwa ngehore leshumi nanye ekuseni bayiswa eningizimu kathelawayeka iN2. “Amaphoyisa athi, “Enza icebo , enza icebo.’ Ngakho-ke- ngawanika amashumi amathathu amarandi, ukuvikela umngani wami kanye name. Indoda yesithathu yabanika ishumi lamarandi. Saphindela emuva edolobheni ngezinyawo, saze safika ngehore lesibili ntambama.”
Ukhomishani wamaphoyisa aseThekwini, uBala Naidoo wathembisa ukusesha. Kodwa lokhu okwaziwa yilaba, okujwayelekile kakhulu, kwenza sibuza ukuthi ngabe abezombutho wamaphoyisa azilungiselele ngokwanele yini mayelana, nezengqondo, ukuletha izindawo zokuvikela eThekwini uma lokhukuhlasela kwenzeka.
Ume singabancoma-nje, ukubakhona kwabo ngobuningi kwabaluleka nnjengokuvimba ukucwaswa kwabokufika eBottlebrush kanye naseMarianhill kungekudala-nje. Kodwa uhulumeni kufanele enze ngokweqile. Sidinga ukubona umasipala udla izindawo ezivikelekile kanye nezezimo eziphuthumayo, esikhundleni sokuyekelela kumasonto kanye nezinhlangano zemiphakathi njengoba kwenzeka ngo2008.
Kufanele futhi sithole umnyombo walenkinga, kuya ezintweni ezenza ukuthi abantu babalekele kulelelizwe, kanye nobuhlanya bolaka kanye nengcindezi izakhamizi zezwe lethu eziyizwayo.
Ukubuswa kweAfrika amazwe aseNyakatho kwadala imingcele eyayingekho ngo1885. Ngenkathi sibhikisha, abaholi bethu abaphambili baseAfrika, abambandakanya oSamora Machel, Herbert Chitepo, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba kanye noKwame Nkrumah, basocongwa, futhi kuyizandla zabamhlophe ezazigcwele igazi labo.
Ondlovukayiphikiswa njengoMobutu Sese Seko waseCongo kanye noRobert Mugabe waseZimbabwe bona bazicebisa ngalokhu, benza izivumelwano nohulumeni waseNingizimu Afrika ngesikhathi sobandlululo ikakhulukazi uMobutu kwathi uMugabe yena wakwenza nohulumeni wentando yeningi.
Izimboni ezimba phansi zaseGoli njengeAnglo Gold kanye neAfrican Rainbow Minerals bayazuza kakhulu ngalokuzwana kwalamazwe. Umphumela: ukufika kakhulu kwabezizwe baseAfrika, okumbandakanya abangochwepheshe, abezentando yeningi kanye nezishoshovu ezisuke zinganikwa amalungelo abantu kanye nobulungiswa kwezomnotho.
Lokhu kuholela kokunye ukungezwani: ukuqhudelana ngomsebenzi.Ngenxa yemigomo yezomnotho kahulumeni wethu obhekelela amazwe aseNyakatho; ukungabikhona kwemisebenzi kunyuke ngendlela engamukeleki, bengaphezulu kwesigidi abalahlekelwe imisebenzi yabo kulonyaka odlule.
Nokungasetshenziswa kwezimali ezidingakala ekuthuthukiseni okumbandakanya ukwenyuka ngoR1.3 billion ngokwakhiwa kweNkundla iMoses Mabhida, okungakachazwa, okukhokhelwe ngezimali ezigciniwe eThekwini.
Khona-nje njalo eduze kwalenkundla imijondolo yomgwaqo uKennedy. Umasipala unqabela abahlali basemjondolo amalungelo okwakha izindlu kanye nokubafakela ugesi. Ngakho-ke leyandawo iyaqhubeka nokusha, futhi imijondolo engamakhulu ayisihlanu yacekeleka phansi ngempelasonto lapho kuzobhekana khona ezikanobhutshuzwayo kwisemi-final.
Ngaphezu kokuthi abanntu baswele imisebenzi kanye nezindlu, okunye okuphuthumayo kubantu ukwenyuka kwamanani ezidingo ezilethwa ngumasipala
Ngenkathi lapho kufanele sibe namahloni lapho abasebenzi kanye nabahluphekayo bezwe lakithi uma becwasa abokufika, ababusi bethu benza kwabhidlanga konke okungekuhle ngaphandle-nje kokuthi imicimbi ebungaza iNdebe Yomhlaba, intukuthelo abantu abayicindezele izogcina iphumele ngaphandle.
Umbuzo ukuthi ngabe labo abangenamandla bangayibhekisaphi intukuthelo yabo, labo abanamandla bayeke ukuphika ukuthi ukucwasa kwabokufika kukhona bese bebhekana nomnyombo waloludaba. Ngabe silusebenzisa kanjani ulaka lwethu ngokwakhayo, ukuqeda inkohlakalo, ukuphathwa nhlakanhlaka kwezimali zezwe, ubuhululu, imigomo yezomnotho engabhekeleli abantu, ukucekelwa phansi kwezemvelo, ukuqashwa kwesikhashana, kanye nokudayiswa kwezidingongqangi.
Futhi labo abasemagunyeni, uma sekuphelile ukudakwa emva kokuphela kweNdebe Yomhlaba, kufanele mahambele kude nemicabango yaseNyakatho bakhulule imiqondo ngokucabanga ukuthi imigomo yezomnotho yamazwe aseNyakatho izosebenza kuleli kangcono kunaseIceland, eIreland, eGreece noma kambe eMelika.
Uma ukucwaswa kwabokufika kuqhubeka, noma ngabe kuncane kangakanani, lesisifo sizoba nomthelela omubi kakhulu. Ezomnotho zethu, ezamasiko zezobuciko, ezemidlalo kanye nobuhlkakani kwethu kuyohlala kunogcobho emhlabeni wonke. Ukungazwani phakthi kwezakhamizi zethu kanye nezwekazi lonke laseAfrika kuyosabalala kanti nokuphatheka kahle uma sivakashele lamazwe kuyoshabalala.
Njengoba iKomidi Labaqagalisayo ukuthi imidlalo yamaOlympic iyothathwa iliphi idolobha kwiMidlalo YaseHlobo ka2020 siyoba sesibona ukuthi konke lokhu ebesikufihlile sekuphumele obala.If xenophobia continues, even at a low-intensity level, this scourge will have very negative repercussions. Our economic, arts and cultural, sporting and intellectual exchanges with the rest of the world will be stained. Bad vibes between our citizens and the rest of the continent will spread and hospitality we receive on the continent will cease.