Of late, we’ve come across harrowing and heart wrenching videos on social media whereby foreign migrants are forcibly and ruthlessly prevented from accessing healthcare in public health facilities in South Africa in an operation called DUDULA.
In one video, a South African woman is seen declaring to the entire world, she’s proudly xenophobic…..she hates foreigners; while in another one that made us cry for mother Africa, a heavily pregnant woman is turned away at the gates of a health facility by fellow women.
What the heck is dudula?
Tracing its roots in Soweto, a township of Johannesburg, Operation Dudula is a fascist movement that prides itself explicitly xenophobic! It has become known for violently threatening and targeting both legal and illegal migrants of African origin. The movement has since rapidly spread like a cancerous disease to other parts of the country. “Dudula” means to “force out” or “knock down” in isiZulu, and refers to the movement’s goal to expel migrants.
How dare you forget easily, South Africans! You don’t have chicken memories, do you?
When the Apartheid regime regarded you as lesser beings…..worse than pigs, and condmned you to the heavily populated squatter camps where you were systematically denied basic human rights, it was countries like Zambia, Nigeria, Malawi, Mozambique and Ethiopia that opened their borders to you. You lived in our homes, ate our food, attended our schools, easily accessed medication and even enjoyed our beer without any encumberances. Our country had to pay for it through a barrage of bombings for hosting your future leaders in Lusaka – Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Chris Hani, Joe Slovo, Joe Modise, Pallo Jordan, Ronnie Kasrils among others! Is this the way you should pay us back? Shame on you!
And as for you our so-called African leaders, what manner of curse has come upon you? You continue defiling and raping the sanctity of the aspirations of our forebearers…..the gallant men and women that loosened our chains of captivity! You engage in senseless tribal wars, shamelessly pillage our resources, lamentably fail to invest in infrastructure and can’t provide jobs for our people.
And when the excruciating pangs of hunger hit your people where it hurts the most, they begin trekking to South Africa where they are treated worse than stray mongrels. Shame on you!
Prince Bill M. Kaping’a
Political/Social Analyst
Zambezi
1999 to 2001, had traveled to SA around 20 times, and stayed for upto 30 days on almost all my trips. During my visit, I did check out place and mingled. I learnt a lot. To what happening to day, not surprised. Xenophobia is a DNA.
Thankless chaps…, karma will pursue them.
You have no idea what those of us living in South Africa are experiencing. Just speaking English on public transport, with a different accent, turns heads (e.g., pronouncing ‘back’ as ‘back’, not as ‘beck’ the South African way). Now these Dudula thugs are occasionally blocking foreigners from accessing public medical facilities, by picketing and dancing outside the facilities and asking for ID documents. That amounts to a crime, because a person can die as a result of lack of medical attention. It just shows how advanced and civilised we are as Zambians, compared to South Africans. When Guy Scott said “South Africans are backward”, he was 100% right! They are ‘beckward’!
Unless you possess a critical skill, you should not be there. And indeed if you’re there, you should afford the private hospitals. I do not mean to sound rude. Zambians had a mentality of self-loathing and leaving their country, the same country where whites and Asians are flocking to in search of opportunities, some to stay permanently.
Indeed I possess a skill. I have a work permit, legal one, under the scarce skills category. I am writing on behalf of all who cannot afford private hospitals. Imagine a Zambian travels to South Africa, has a road accident, is taken to a hospital but is blocked from accessing it because of being a foreigner…
You, the so-called St. Desperacius, need to have your head examined and treated pal. Then you will wake up and realise that the reason for why you are terming Zambia as “the same country where whites and Asians are flocking to in search of opportunities…” is our foolhardy desperation for investors. We allow these people to pillage our meager foreign currency reserves. Anyone in Zambia can go to a Bureau de Change and buy forex. The Chinese love that, they even stuff dollar notes in their under wear as they pass through passport control on departure. In South Africa, one can only buy forex upon producing proof that one is travelling abroad. On return into South Africa, one can only sell forex if the day of the sale is within 30 days of the entry passport stamp. The Chinese are not flocking to South Africa as a result. Look at the stability of the Rand, versus our fragile ZMW! Wake up pal!
Its easy to stand outside and judge. South Africa is being abused in every way possible. Foreigners are accommodated and treated well but they insult South Africans for their hospitality. The fact that South Africa is a champion of human rights seems to be working against the citizens. Ask yourself, what foreigners are doing wrong in South Africa and stopnwith this lazy mentality of calling South Africa because if that was true, no one would even think of coming to South Africa.
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You were hoping to see more lies about South Africa. A country with strong willed people. South Africa is where it is because of its citizens. Fix your country so that people can flock to it in search of a better life. Stop this xenophobia nonsense, lazy people leave their country to go make demands in other people’s land.
There is no need to blame our South African brothers and Sisters at all, they are simply telling us to develop our own countries and not to accept and believe that an angel will bring Horney and milk to us. Please let us use our education to solve all the challenges we are currently facing, not to go to school instead of learning we start to memorise the theories instead of understanding the concepts. Its useless getting a PHD and yet we cannot even manufacture a needle or Panado. A degree paper will not solve anything at all, put aside that paper and think outside the box.
The only clarion call I need to hear is AFRICA UNITE . The long cherished ideal of a United States of Africa must never die even in a thousand years Africa is the richest place on earth and there are people to whom a United Africa will always a mortal danger to their own comfort and superiority.We must integrate and become one.No African person must be an illegal immigrant in any part of Africa and West Indies land
We owe it ourselves to survive
Ask yourself who dangled the useless degree before the citizens’ eyes? It’s the government. The citizen just obeyed his government like all law abiding people do. In China the government looked at its communities and decided that education should focus on solving problems affecting its people. Colleges, universities focused on producing skills for manufacturing needles or Panado. That’s why humans have leadership. To birth ideas that solve society’s problems. In Zambia political opponents think leadership is: inspecting guards of honor, being driven around in a motorcade that removes everyone from your path, flying all over without thinking about what you are contributing to world pollution, shutting up and controlling public media. The entire nation from President to ng’wang’wazi needs re-education. We are wrongly educated.
The only justification I hear from other Africans is that we helped them with their independence. While we did, and they appreciate us for that, or at least the elderly and well learned, they do not owe us their land for it. The Soviet Union helped a lost of resistance against colonial regimes but never asked for anything in return. Their problems are real, the math does not support their argument that their problems are due immigration, however, perhaps it is best to leave their country for them. I have not seen them attack high value jobs or the presence of foreigners in their country in general. There is context to their anger despite how economically flawed their arguments are.
@Zambian is South Africa
Time to invest back home my dear brother…NO PLACE LIKE HOME…
I lived in South Africa in 1996/7…by then it wasn’t as rough as it is now….all the best and stay safe
@ Zambian in South Africa
The other problem is those morons don’t care whether you have proper documentation or not…they’re just anti foreigners/xenophobic
I remember i was once arrested and taken to a Police station even though i had a legitimate South African ID…permanent residence
They are not anti-foreigners. Let me thread the needle. They hate their own skin. Steve Biko theorises about the African who has been made to think by the colonial master that the inferior race is black and the superior race is white. Yes that’s what the coloniser did to all of us and it lingers in most of us.
This African won’t stand another African if he sees this “foreigner” in an advantaged status.
“My own skin! Better than me? When we all are supposed to be sufferers!”
That’s the thinking of operation dudula South Africans. They never attack non-black foreigners.
That thinking is also prevailing in Zambezi district.
The very woman heading Dudula has put herself in questionable situation. Apparently she claims to have been born in Soweto and has no Village. Imagine I am in Lusaka claiming born there but no mention of where My Parents or Great grand parents came from? Here she is with 2 Children born from a Zimbabwean Man. Rumor has it that she is a Ndebele from Zimbabwe. Eventually lies will catch up with her. She is frustrated for having been dumped
My fellow citizens of Zambia, you have no idea in 1980s how tough it was to live in Zambia. Many of us migrated not for pleasure but in search of meaningful life. Not all South Africans are Xenophobic. Dudula is being funded by people that want to divide black people in order to grab power in the next elections. But our fellow blacks are caught sleeping here. The focus is not to have a black party with majority votes.
Believe me, we Zambians are blessed by our welcoming and giving nature. God blessed us but not here in South. A foreigner is a threat, but the educated South Africans are well civilized. Its the thugs who cannot even do cleaning jobs that cause this havoc. Look at their gatherings and see if you spot an educated person. I personally miss Zambia, and love visiting My kabompo Village. But with Children in High Schools and Universities trekking back is not easy even though I miss My land. I have been here 24 years with Children 22, 19 and 15 yrs Old. If My Children were not in Schools, I would definitely join My Family in Zambia. Its no longer the same South Africa I found in 90s.
I can tell you that Black on black hatred is everywhere including USA. Black Americans don’t like us. I experienced it myself during my studies in the 80s. Zambia and Nigeria are unique.
You were hoping to see more lies about South Africa. A country with strong willed people. South Africa is where it is because of its citizens. Fix your country so that people can flock to it in search of a better life. Stop this xenophobia nonsense, lazy people leave their country to go make demands in other people’s land.
@ Mahina
Yes and only race that cant stick together is the black race all over the world…chinese stick together…Latinos stick together…Caucasians stick together…Indians stick together but only black people hate each other with a passion….we can’t even unite even in grief…look at Lungu case….so much hatred on both sides
What are you saying? You’re mixing up races, nations and unilingual people; Chinese are a nation, not a race. Neither are Latinos and Indians. China has for centuries been at war with people of the same race like Japan. India has fought their own race in Pakistan, since Britain fled their land
Isukulu not free education.
if you have lived abroad or gotten sick abroad, you will understand how healthcare works. I think some of you have sent families to India or China. Is it Free? Go to USA or UK, is it free? Sometimes you need to protect your benefits to survive or prolong their existence.
South Africa has become a lawless country….how do you allow common civilians in hospitals asking for personal information…what if they’re just thugs trying to steal patients personal information to commit fraud….i have never seen such lawlessness …..no patient privacy and no security
The place is lawless. Just watch that youtube crime documentary about Cape Town criminals robbing Uber drivers. The thugs, armed with pistols, are caught on camera and can be identified but the police dont arrest them. The American narrator is puzzled at this. I remember president Ramaphosa lamenting before Donald Trump that there’s too much crime in South Africa and that boers aren’t the only targets. Who should sort out that crime if not the president?
Lawful Zambians are fighting for a dead thief, in the same South Africa
What are you saying? You’remixing up races, nations and unilingual people; Chinese are not a race. Neither are Latinos and Indians. China has for centuries been at war with people of the same race like Japan. India has fought their own race, Pakistan since Britain fled their land
When you talk of the struggle against minority white rule in Southern Africa: correct me if I’m wrong but Malawi and Kenya openly sided with the whites, do not revise our history, not every black man is your brother, as Lucky Dude said. It was Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana and Mozambique(or front line states) with the rest either at war or still under same white rule. I heard one lad on TV mentioning Kamuzu Banda as one of the heroes of the struggle to liberate South Africa, I laughed.
As concerns the ungrateful South Africans you are spot on and this is a lesson for us to concentrate on ourselves in future and forget about sacrificing our own development for a neighbor. Don’t expect anything from those engrates and savages, you will live longer.
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