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Durban – President Jacob Zuma’s son, Edward, has come out in full support of King Goodwill Zwelithini’s controversial call to deport foreigners from South Africa.
“We need to be aware that as a country we are sitting on a ticking time bomb of them [foreigners] taking over the country.
“The reason why I am saying that is because some of the foreigners are working for private security companies where they have been employed for cheap labour. These companies are running away from complying with South African labour laws,” said the president’s eldest son.
‘Foreigners need to leave the country’
Zuma told News24 in an interview he fully agreed with Zwelithini’s sentiments that “foreigners needed to leave the country.”
Zwelithini allegedly made the comments, which have sparked criticism, at a moral regeneration rally in Pongola, northern KwaZulu-Natal, two weeks ago.
The Zulu king reportedly said that foreigners were changing the nature of South African society as they were taking advantage of the poorly behaved and undisciplined locals.
Zwelithini was also quoted as saying, “We urge all foreigners to pack their bags and leave.”
Despite the South African Human Rights Commission now probing the Zulu king’s utterances, Zuma junior said, as a citizen of South Africa, he fully agreed with the king.
He said some foreigners didn’t have legal documentation permitting them to be in the country.
Former soldiers a danger
The time bomb, charged Zuma, was that some foreigners were carrying guns and some of them were soldiers in their home countries.
“In South Africa you need to have a gun licence to be able to carry a gun. Where are their licences? We can’t rule out the possibility of a coup in the future. The government needs to clean out everyone that is in the country illegally. They need to leave,” said Zuma.
He said foreigners were fuelling South Africa’s drug problem.
“They are the reason why there are so many drugs in the country. They supply and sell the drugs to communities in our country. Take Radovan Krejcir for example, he came into the country because he knew he could commit crime and get away with it,” said Zuma referring to the Czech fugitive who has been charged, along with three others, for the murder of Lebanese national Sam Issa.
“I am not only talking about foreigners from African countries, I am also talking about Asians and Europeans as well. They are a real security threat to this country and the police can’t catch them because they can’t be traced because some of them do not have proper documentation,” said Zuma.
Big strong institutions, you cannot blame foreigners for your incompetence. The government MUST condemn such barbarism to fellow human. South African blacks must know that during apartheid, many of them left South Africa to seek safe haven in other countries. Stop killing other black people because they were born outside South Africa. Who gives you the rights and ownership of a country just because you happened to be born there.
Furthermore, harming children, who may be born in South Africa by a foreigners, does not give any South African person the rights to harm that child. The child was born in South Africa and he is a South African
Stop the backwardness of black killing blacks, stop the stupidity of killing your own brothers. You are frustrated because the root causes of your problems were not addressed . Attacking black foreigners, basically mean that you are only addressing the symptoms of the problems. A man cannot climb a tree from the branches, he must start from the roots
This is not the time silence can be said to be golden.Nigerians are at the receiving ends of xenophobic annihilation and no one is raising a finger.Our ungrateful South Africans shouldn’t have forgotten so soon the sacrifice the brotherhood of African States,with Nigeria defining the pace made to determine the destruction of the chains of apartheid.
Sadly,those upon whom you shower affection may not be the one to reciprocate.
Why are other migrants like the Europeans and Americans not also targets of this war of attrition against the black migrants?
Kill one American,and President Obama will demand for the heads of ten Zulu kings.
The Nigerian government should as a matter of urgency rise to the occasion.We must tell the South Africans that we do not only bark,but that we can also bite.
South African business interests like Multi Choice(DSTV) ,Tiger Brands et al should be nationalized and their citizens made to face genocidal action.
Enough to these mindless and senseless blood letting.