my friend Seni
Urban Inspector - part of the task force in the inner city. this is what he wrote to me via email after i had interviewed him...i guess he thought about it a little
"The whole of Sunday and Yesterday we as a region were assisting in these Xenophobic attacks in the Cleveland and Jeppe area, one thing is that for any of us to feel the impact of this situation is to go and be within our fellow Africans who are in dire need of help and the most basic things, like toilet paper, a place to take a bath (privacy) and water, not knowing where and when is food coming, being helpless and really not knowing what the future holds.
I spoke to a number of the victims and was asking them what help are they expecting from South Africa...you will be shocked at the answers we got as 99% of them were saying they can not go back to their countries as they have no family, the families have been wiped off by the civil wars, especially people from the DRC and Burundi they say they rather be killed in South Africa, cause they've got nothing to loose now as all what they have is taken away from them.
I've been around informal settlements, seen poverty stricken families, seen homeless people, seen people dying from HIV related illness’s but what I saw and felt yesterday is beyond explanation and belief to see what we as humans are capable of.
Take a minute and look at your life right now and start appreciating what you have and let us stop the hatred we have, firstly with ourselves, loved one's, neighbours and the human race.
N.B. I’m also one of those who were Xenophobic, but I’ve seen the light, it’s not worth it, what is there to gain."
Sibongiseni N. Tshabalala
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