Former Republican Vice President and leader of the opposition Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), Dr. Nevers Sekwila Mumba has urged the leadership of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to intervene in the looming threat of Xenophobia in South Africa.
In a message quoted on his official Twitter handle, @Nevers Sekwila Mumba, issued on Wednesday, Dr. Mumba also warned that any reports of Xenophobia would yield negative and undesirable retaliation from Zambia, and possibly other affected countries.
“We wish to make it clear that any report of a Zambian being killed shall have economic ramifications on South African investments in Zambia.” He said, in reference to a possible public boycott of South African linked investments in Zambia.
Dr, Mumba has meanwhile urged the Zambian Government to immediately take a stand against Xenophobia and engage the South African government in light of the strong history the two nations share in which for many years, Zambia offered support and housed leaders of the struggle against apartheid at great cost and danger to herself.
“Our brothers and sisters of South Africa must realize that if it were not for the support of other countries like Zambia, apartheid would not have ended. Under the leadership of our founding President Dr Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia provided help to the current governing party of South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) and infact we went a step further to give them space to house their headquarters here.
Most of the ANC big wigs who weren’t in prison with President Nelson Mandela like Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma just to mention a few were based in Lusaka Zambia during the struggle”, Dr. Mumba said.
Dr. Mumba, who is an advocate for an Africa of Morality and Integrity, is a vocal critic of Xenophobia and other social vices and has often been quoted as saying the only way Africa, and any of it’s people, can achieve the equitable distribution of its wealth and resources is by ensuring that ,africans demand for, and procure for themselves, a leadership of morality and integrity, and not through Xenophobic attacks on fellow Africans.
“These Xenophobic threats are a time bomb which, if not nipped in the bud, may spread to other countries. For example, if citizens in Country X attack Citizens of Country Y based in Country X, Citizens of Country Y may also retaliate and attack citizens of Country X who are in their Country. This will in the long run lead to social and economic destabilization in the region”, he said.
In Pretoria, South Africa violence followed the fatal shooting of a taxi driver identified as Jabu Baloyi allegedly by a foreign national who was confronted for dealing drugs in the CBD on Tuesday 27th August.
In retaliation, the angry crowd on Wednesday set alight numerous stores suspected to be run by foreign nationals they accused of selling drugs to young people around the notorious Lilian Ngoyi and Brown streets intersection.
Protesters broke into stores before setting them ablaze in front of police awaiting back-up.
However, criminal elements took advantage of the situation and started looting, grabbing TVs, fridges and other electronic equipment. Others helped themselves to food.
Zambian businessman Llyod Kalenshia said painting every foreigner with the same brush was very problematic and dangerous. “I am hurting because my cellphone store was burnt to the ground and I am left with nothing. These people must let the police deal with these things and not take the law into their own hands.”
By James Mulenga
When Mutati is in the news you will call him MMD president. Which is which?
No one area about that.
What people want to know isn’t how many weeks I have to go before I welcome me daughter in this world and also when the price of mealie meal will come down.
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The Churches in SADC including Mumba’s church a failures. They have failed to preach and convince the people of this region and the world over to love one another. If the Church were effective in their preaching there will be no hate for one another.
Malema is a friend to U5C (I mean Stop Children). That is where UPND seeks guidance from. South Africa is a shame and a let down to Africa. The caliber of leadership is similar to UPND tribal and non-inclusive political Underdogs who will never be presidents.
First we must deal with a local Terrorist grouping. A cesspool of corrupt tribalists. What happened in SP post 2016 poll results was inhumane, xenophobic, sociopathic, civil alien and cantankerous. Right here, in our back door. Our own province. When we’re done we can then open the SA pandora container.
What is in South Africa isn’t xenophobia. Xenophobia is the phobia or hate of foreigners. South Africans hate only black foreigners not the whites, Taiwanese, koreans Chinese foreigners. Afrophobia perhaps or negrophobia?
Ironically Mumba himself is a xenophobe against other religious groups.
Ok so Felix M is MMD President whilst Nervous is Leader of MMD teh?
Nevers doesn’t learn. Mwanawasa fired him for this same lack of diplomacy. SA authorities are faced with a serious problem because many foreigners ran away from their countries due to poor leadership and Nevers wants to trivialize this problem. Improve your poor governance and all xenophobia will be a thing of the past.
Most South Africans youths are lazy that’s why their companies prefere foreigners who are hard working… You’re one of them in the foreign country…
Mumba and your other religius gurus in Zambia are also a total failure. These people in Zambia who are fighting each other in Zambia are found in your churches on sundays.They are either catholics, Seventf Days, Pentes , pressibetians etc. Just after leaving your churches on Sunday/Saturday morning…..they start insulting each other and fighting. Is it your preaching which is inneffective to change your flock???
We’re working in South Africa not because we’re had workers no, we’re cheap laborers. If our sadc country’s can improve the salary for truck drivers we can’t go to rsa.the conditions of service in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi ,Mozambique and Tanzania are slavery conditions.
Thank you so much Dr Pastor Mumba
This issue is complex to be honest. . Our leaders must fix things in our countries there’s no work baba .salary ya labour mu south Afican construction industry is almost ya teacher pazed..2 years with qualifications no job you hit the road to a place where they can hire you in 1week time and pay u more..Please Create jobs in our countries we want to come home..
Pastor how are u? Thank u for that call to sadc
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Thanks Pastor Nervers Mumba for the call, the only problem is that you don’t practice what you preach. There are whispers that you have demanded to be paid colossal sums of money for you to reconcile with Felix Chipota Mutati. How can reconciliation be for sale? As a man of God I expect you to clear the air on this. I look forward to your statement
He loves money more than God…
The “xenophobia” will stop when the South African government starts doing what’s its suppose to do. Secure the country’s borders and deport illegal immigrants. We”re sick of foreigners undermining us, slashing wages with slave labour.
That will never happen. Corruption is what drives illegal immigration and drug peddling. Until you have angels running Home Affairs South Africans will be xenophobes
That will never happen. Corruption is what drives illegal immigration and drug peddling. Until you have angels running Home Affairs South Africans will be xenophobes
That will never happen. Corruption is what drives illegal immigration and drug peddling. Until you have angels running Home Affairs South Africans will be xenophobes
So why do you target only Africans? What about the Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, Europeans etc who are running businesses and even peddling drugs?
Fwanya is a lost soul. On what basis do you characterise South African youths as lazy.? Stop shooting your mouth like Zimbabweans who characterise Zambians as lazy yet today they survive on Zambian maize produced by Zambian small scale farmers not those hapless whites who have failed to farm here.