Xenophobia- The South African Incident

Yesterday after a very hectic day i got wind of what has been happening in South Africa that started a little under a week ago . For those of you who haven't heard the Zulu boys and other members of the South African community (mostly gangs) decided all the misfortunes that have befallen themselves and their brothers is solely the fault of immigrants, specifically African immigrants who came from other countries on the same continent. They believe these immigrants have taken things that belong to them like jobs, money and their livelihood in general so they decided to steal from, injure and kill foreigners in Durban and parts of KwaZulu-Natal (spelling might be wrong).

Wars have been started for less.

I do not understand this at all. Why would they blame the poor state of their lives on others who probably had to fight tooth and nail to thrive in a foreign community. We are talking about fellow Africans here, people of the exact same color, what advantage would they have over them in their own land? Its not like the education in other parts of Africa is better than theirs in South Africa so why would they be preferred over them. These acts are terrible and are those of weak minded, lazy individuals who can do nothing for themselves and as a result look for who to blame for their sorry state.

                             

The one thing that bothers me though, are the areas where these attacks on African immigrants took place is also highly populated by Indians (so i was told), so why were the attacks only carried out only on fellow Africans? RACISM. That's right, the idiotic mob that carried out the attacks believe themselves inferior to the Indians therefore they see nothing wrong in the Indians getting the jobs they're not since they're better but of course other Africans are just the same as they are so why should they get jobs and have homes while a lot of them are jobless and homeless. The idiocy in this cannot be put in words.

If you can't tell already i'm exasperated, the government of South Africa should do something about this and the foreigners should seek refuge in their country's embassy until they can leave SA. This is tragic. This is like Nazi Germany all over again.