Don’t blame black Africans from other countries on the continent for the ANC’s inability to govern

Patients are banned from health facilities because of the pigmentation of their skin and the language they speak. This comes after a video showing Limpopo health mec fofi ramathuba outcry To use “his” facilities on a patient when he must use Zimbabwe’s facilities.

of south african health care system Most have been ill for 28 years under the democratic system. Systematic and structural factors affect a country’s public health services. These include poor management of public sector hospitals, shortage of health professionals, low morale and productivity levels, corruption and poor planning.

The low quality of public healthcare drives people – at least those who can afford it – to private healthcare. All these issues and others have nothing to do with foreign nationals in South Africa.

We have seen Xenophobic attacks since 2008 till the present. Such attacks are Afrophobic because black South Africans fight fellow black Africans from other African states, such as Zimbabwe and Nigeria, whose citizens make up the majority of foreign migrants. dislike foreigners has never been conclusively addressed.

The lessons of history should serve as warnings about the dangers of scapegoating minority groups and brainwashing the public into believing lies about them. For dictators such as Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, propaganda was an important tool to win the majority of the German public. This served to advance the Nazi radical program, which required the approval, support or participation of broad segments of the population.

Hitler’s propaganda resulted in about 20,946,000 deaths, including Jews, Roma, homosexuals, black people and people with mental disabilities, as well as other minority groups. From 1941 to 1945 alone, Nazi extremists killed six million Jews. Hitler held the Jews responsible for everything that was going wrong in Germany and the world. He believed that the destruction of the Jewish people would be the new beginning for Germany to conquer the world. People readily followed what Hitler and his Nazi Party propagandists said, blaming the Jews for the problems of which the Jews knew nothing.

In South Africa today, attacks on foreign nationals are largely engineered purposefully for political point-scoring purposes by populists and populists who seek to occupy public office or consolidate their political position. It is unfortunate that, like the Germans under Hitler’s dictatorship, South Africans, desperate for jobs or adequate services provided by the government, participate in inhuman acts by blindly blaming foreign nationals for the government’s disastrous track record. are becoming.

This blame game by government officials such as Ramathuba, Lindive Zulu, and other politicians and activists such as Nahlanhala Lux, formerly operation dudulais false, baseless and false. Their only intention is to find those to blame for the country on the verge of collapse.

The ANC appears to be unable to take responsibility for its failure to administer and govern properly since taking office in 1994. Amidst all the wrong things happening in this country, it still wants to be seen and considered as the liberator of the South African people. ,

The ANC should take the country into confidence on the current status quo. All those blaming foreign nationals for corruption must be condemned so that unnecessary tensions between South Africans and Africans from other countries on the continent can be prevented. Until recently, he was being convicted of an increased level of criminal activity. He is now falsely blamed, just as he is, for the collapse of an already failing public health system.

South Africa is a member state of the regional Southern African Development Community and the African Union. With its economic power and influence, it has a responsibility to ensure that there is peace and stability in other African countries. This is especially true for Zimbabwe, a country that has it on its doorstep. Pretoria has not been helpful in solving the Zimbabwe crisis since the early 2000s.

The reason for the failure of Zimbabwe is that many Zimbabweans have had to leave their country and come to South Africa in search of livelihood. Now he and other African migrants are being unfairly blamed for the failures in South Africa.

Kenneth Mokgatlhe is a freelance journalist and author.

The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of Mail & Guardian,