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The Government is yet again in another tricky situation as it is forced, by circumstances, to recieve more than 1 000 of its nationals back from neighbouring South Africa. According to the Chronicle (17/04/15), Ambassador Isac Moyo said the immigration office had already organised for the repatration of more than 1000 Zimbos in the costal city of Durban.
Xenophobia attacks in SA has seen foreign nationals fall pray to ruthless, brutal and unjustified attacks by South Africans. Bach home, its shock and uncer5tainity that has griped those with their relatives in the neuighbouring country. Much to the disappointment of the majority, SADC, thye regional governing board has remained aloof at the deadly attacks especially now that the Chairperson of SADC, Cde R.G Mugabe was in SA FOR A state visit.
With the majority of immigrants in SouthAfrica being Zimbabweans, whose number alone is widely estimated to be about
three million, one would have expected that the current chairman of SADC(Southern
African Development Community) and AU (African Union) who is on a state visit
to South Africa and also happens to be the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe,
would have taken time to address the issue.
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
"Sadly, Mugabe and Zuma, during their bi-lateral talks, ignored the
tragedy of xenophobia which amounts to crimes against humanity and
outright infringements on the fundamental rights and freedoms of our
people. Ironically, Mugabe thanked South Africans for hospitality and
tolerance of Zimbabweans who have “offended and disrupted social
services in that country”
The aftermath of xenophobic violence and looting in Isipingo, Durban.
An Ethopian national was repotedly killed just 3km from this scene.
Image Credit: China Ngubane
XENOPHOBIA has reared its ugly head in South
Africa again, with the latest wave of ethnic hatred dubbed “Black Easter”
affecting over 120 foreign nationals in the Isipingo area in Durban.
Since the beginning of the Easter weekend
last Thursday (2 April 2015), South African locals have been giving an
ultimatum to scores of Zimbabwean, Congolese and Mozambican nationals to leave
their country. Fearing for their lives, these migrants have all sought refuge
at police camps such as Sydenham in Durban.
With the majority of immigrants in SouthAfrica being Zimbabweans, whose number alone is widely estimated to be about
three million, one would have expected that the current chairman of SADC(Southern
African Development Community) and AU (African Union) who is on a state visit
to South Africa and also happens to be the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe,
would have taken time to address the issue.
In the same vein, one would also expect the
president of the host nation Jacob Zuma to table issue which is the cause of
unrest in his backyard.
ZANU PF has warned South Africa that the
current xenophobic attacks rocking the neighbouring country were a
serious security threat to the region as they undermined unity and peace
efforts by Southern African leaders, tis reporter learnt from the NewsDay.
This came amid growing calls for the South African government to act
decisively in the spirit of African solidarity or risk being alienated
from the regional groupings, Sadc and African Union (AU) for being
complicit in the killings of foreigners, most of them economic and
political refugees.
President Robert Mugabe chairs both Sadc and the AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government.
Millions of foreigners were in danger with at least nine, among them
two Zimbabweans, having been killed in the attacks in the neighbouring
country in the last few days. Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said the xenophobic attacks should be stopped forthwith.
“This barbarism must stop immediately otherwise our clarion call for
unity in Sadc and the continent as a whole will be hollow,” Khaya Moyo
said.
He said among deals signed by Zimbabwe and South Africa during
Mugabe’s State visit to South Africa last week, none was signed to
promote xenophobia.
“Zanu PF is alarmed by the xenophobic violence perpetrated on foreign
nationals including hundreds of Zimbabweans living in South Africa,”
Khaya Moyo, a former ambassador to South Africa, said.
Political analyst Charles Mangongera said South Africa must be taken
to task by regional bodies if there was evidence of failure to address
the xenophobic attacks.
President Mugabe with SA President Zuma
They exchange hags during Mugabe's visit to SA(LEFT). The two drink to proceedings (right) in Zim
“If there is evidence that South Africa’s response isn’t enough, it
has to be held accountable and this matter should be raised in Sadc and
AU. At the moment, the feeling is the government is not responding
adequately. This has to be stopped,” Mangongera said.
“The problem is Mugabe is reluctant to do things that will upset the
SA government. South Africa has been protecting the Mugabe regime, from
the United Nations discussions, the Global Political Agreement and other
areas. There was a recent visit also where Mugabe and his team were in
South Africa for assistance and that explains why Mugabe is reluctant to
say anything that may displease Pretoria. I also think that is why a
planned demonstration at the South African embassy was stopped.”
He said what South Africans were doing was against the spirit of
ubuntu and they should appreciate that they were beneficiaries of
African solidarity that helped them acquire independence from the racist
apartheid regime.
Hundreds of Harare residents from across the political and social
divides mobilised to demonstrate at the South African embassy in the
capital yesterday, but the protests were cancelled by police who claimed
they were busy preparing for the Independence Day celebrations.
Axed Zanu-Pf secretary for administration Cde Dydmus Mutasa has confirmed that the formation of Zanu-People First is in its birth as the axed cadres plan to go publicly and launch their new political party. according to Mutasa in an interview with CNN, the party will bw head by former Vice President Cde Joice Deurairopa Mujuru. https://youtu.be/k4cixzz_DV0
Mutasa also indicated that the party is a coalition of all other revolutionary parties that oppose ZanuPf. He further confirmed that the party has a tramendous following by bigwings in the security sector and all that waits is the manifesto
Professor Jonathan Moyo has castigated the unborn Zanu People First party that will be allegedly led by axed vice president Joice Mujuru saying Zanu Pf has never had such a postfix.
He added: “Our membership is composed of the original and seasoned politicians, commanders of the Zimbabwe African National Army (Zanla), Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (Zipra) and Zimbabwe People’s Army (Zipa) forces who are now being marginalised.”
Stuff and nonsense, said information minister and Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo who added that Simba Makoni and Dumiso Dabengwa also claimed to have the support of party stalwarts and yet no senior figures left with them.
“Media dreams of a split will come to grief not least because the nefarious pursuits of expelled malcontents in the wilderness cannot be rationally described as a split,” Moyo told state media.
“Dumiso Dabengwa’s 2008 foray into the political wilderness was not a split in Zanu PF nor was Simba Makoni’s Mavambo in the same year which ended up as Magumo in 2013.
“It is also notable that the expelled Mujuru-Mutasa-Rugare cabal was widely seen as the money-faction before its long overdue expulsion because money was, as it still is, more important to the threesome than ideology.”
Mutasa said only Mujuru, who was fired for allegedly plotting a coup against President Robert Mugabe, could turn the country’s struggling economy around.
