Jeez, it’s like spring break for the Xenophobes down in Alexandra the past two days. Poor jokes aside there seems to be absolute chaos in Alex with local South African residents forcibly evicting foreigners from their homes. Their logic is two-fold: the first reasoning is these foreigners are taking jobs and secondly that they are causing a large amount of the crime in South Africa.
You know what this proves to me? Not only are the people performing these evictions idiots but also clearly not in touch with reality. Their behaviour is disgusting no matter what their reasoning (which is wrong and I will soon prove that) and they should be shot on site for their actions.
The whole “they take our jobs” thing is totally unacceptable in my mind. Maybe my mentality is wrong but a little competition never killed anyone. Step up your game and show how you’re better than anyone else and get a job rather than the typical South African mentality of being previously disadvantaged thus currently entitled. Also why are you evicting people who have to live in Alexandra, not a particularly nice place to start off with? These people chose our country rather than dying from starvation or ethnic violence in their home countries. It’s not their fault they want a better life. If you have a problem with a lack of jobs then head on up the N3 highway and you’ll find yourself at the Union buildings. Better yet, head on down the N1 to Cape Town to Parliament. Oh and while you’re there, jump in the ocean.
The other point about foreigners causing crime is a pathetic excuse as well. Follow my logic here: correct me if I’m wrong but don’t we live in the world’s worst criminal hotspot? I don’t see those sort of statistics in places like Zimbabwe, Botswana or Malawi do I? Why is this? Why is it that despite barely having a government and a bankrupt economy Zimbabweans can still control themselves? This clearly shows me that it’s not mainly foreigners who are creating crime but our local South African cretins.
Quite simply it’s times like this that make me embarrassed to be a South African and associated with this country.
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best blog yet, it was awesome. i wanna have your babies saulk
I agree with you. I am disgusted by the violence in Alex and shocked!Its easy to blame these people because its hard for South-Africans to except that the crime that is being commited in this country by our own people….our people are responsible for the murdering chaos thats ruling our nation. its easier to point fingers and amit all the drama that they are creating in Alex to now turn around and take property and houses and LIVES!!! These “South-Africans” are worse then common criminals,there is no excuse for what they are doing to these poor people!! I am out-raged and frankly feel sick just writing about it. Xenophobe is just another word for criminal.
There’s less crime in those other African countries cos there’s nothing to steal over there.
Less to steal but vastly more reason to steal it Gangsta
Saulk you are forgetting the operative word here, they are not immigrants, they are ILLEGAL immigrants. Out govt doesn’t have enough water, electricity, police services or healthcare for our own, why should we give it to them?
On your point about them taking our jobs because they are better at them, this can’t be true, if it was one would imagine there countries would flourish and we would illegally go there. this fact is not disputable.
As for your little crime debate, if they ILLEGALY came here who is to say that that is the last illegal act they will perform.
Take off your rose coloured communist glasses and see the real world for what it is.
Realist, I’m going to agree about the concept of SA only having limited resources (which I don’t think these immigrants are using but anyway).
I do however think you are vastly wrong on a few issues.
The first one is how can you say all these people are illegal immigrants. I know of one woman who works at my girlfriends house who was forcibly evicted despite being a South African citizen due to the fact that she was originally Zimbabwean. I can see where you talk about illegal immigrants but how do you tell who is who and even if this is the case how do you throw someone out of their house or assault them? This is unacceptable whatever the reason.
Secondly, in the case of the jobs I don’t think I made myself clear. I was talking about the menial jobs that are the only type of work these people can get. South African’s cannot get these jobs because they feel that they are below their stature and feel they deserve more. I do think that the average menial worker needs to differentiate themselves somehow which immigrants obviously can otherwise there would not be a problem.
I think possibly both of us could take off our rose tinted glasses (I’m a strong capitalist and think the commies are dirty hippies) but the fact is the acts pervaded in Alex are disgusting.
Saulk
I must agree with you that under no circumstances can you “throw someone out of their house or assault them” but I doubt you are living in Alex trying to find food for your family. Our borders are completely porous and we do have an illegal immigrant problem. People were forced to take matters into there own hands and when they do this, the punishment they dole out will never be just or proportional to the crime.
The case of your gf’s maid is nothing but a symptom of gang mentality, someone is always inclined to take things to far. At large I would imagine the people they beat and evicted were illegal immigrants. And while this is wrong, it is the only action available to poor South Africans who have been betrayed by their government (but vote for them anyway).
Maybe instead of these Zimbabweans fighting in Alex they should finally do something in their own country. If they are the hard workers you claim they are, why aren’t they hard at work launching a coup against their dictator who forced them into South Africa in the first place.
I think the persecutors and the persecuted are both victims to their arrogant indifferent governments who are in it only for themselves
Well Realist, burning people is now a reality. Do you really stand behind your disgusting comrades?
I don’t think we have a border problem or an illegal immagrant problem or an electricity or a water problem. I think we have a goverment problem!! When are they going to get of their well paid high chairs and do something about anything. Im so tired of watching this country be stuffed up by corrupt assholes!!(who all the xenophobics voted for and will vote for again). But hey lets just burn and beat and kill everyone and while we at it we can steal all their stuff. We can just say we are getting the raw end of the deal and that will make it acceptable and not disgusting, barbaric, inhuman. Not even animals behave like this.
Amen Shelley. Whatever the reasoning this behaviour is appalling.