THERE is a lot to be unhappy with about the state of many things in Zimbabwe, including its noxious politics and sickly economy.
But, it has to take a special breed of people to incite hatred and resentment towards their motherland and fellow citizens, as many pseudo journalists and two-bit academics appear to do everyday in their social media postings and engagements with outsiders.
Indeed, what makes these knuckleheads so bitterly opposed to everything associated with their country, to the extent that they now seemingly wish it and its people to disappear from the face of the earth?
Mzansi’s Uncouth Ministers
Among the many things that examplify this despicable attitude is the reaction of some compatriots towards the Afrophobia of Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa’s incompetent and boorish minister of Home Affairs — who many people, including in Mzansi, suspect is the main player behind the anti-African Dudula Movement.
Each time this buffoon abuses poor black immigrants, especially Zimbabweans, these fellow citizens who hate their country with a passion cheer him on. Motsoaledi has now been joined in this madness by his homegirl and Limpopo provincial minister responsible for health, Phophi Ramathuba.
Ramathuba was captured in a video earlier this week jumping down the throat of a Zimbabwean patient at a Musina hospital, claiming that migrants were overburdening local health facilities — rightly sparking a huge outcry in South Africa itself. The reality though is very different from Ramathuba’s claim.
In 2019, Africa-Check analysed SA government offi cials’ claims that local public hospitals were being overwhelmed by foreign patients and found no proof to back up the crass statements. Jo Hunter-Adams, a researcher at the University of Cape Town’s Health Economics Unit, went further, saying: “The narrative that foreign nationals are a ‘burden’ to the SA health system seems to be an example of scape-goating, where migrants are blamed for broader systemic problems with the health system.”
Angels of Darkness
Still, all this evidence to the contrary has not stopped some social media retards — especially those who would like to be seen as politically enlightened (many of them Cult followers) — from celebrating the appalling abuse of the Zimbabwean patient. To these unthinking fools, it was as if it was the captain of the Red Devils who had been abused by Ramathuba.
It’s crazy. VAR can understand that some people are unhappy with the Red Devils and their captain in our fatally polarised teapot country, but where does the poor Zimbabwean patient who was abused by Ramathuba fi t in in all this? In the meantime, let’s also imagine, for argument’s sake that in the end Ramathuba got her way and chucked out the poor Zimbabwean from the Musina hospital, and that something terrible in fact happened to this sick person afterwards (God forbid), how would this make those who hate their country and celebrated Ramathuba’s abuse feel? Happy? Ecstatic?
Let’s take this argument further. If something terrible did happen to the ailing Zimbabwean afterwards, how would this advance the cause of those who want to remove the Red Devils and their captain from power? And do these hare-brained people understand that they too, or their relatives and friends, may one day find themselves requiring urgent medical assistance in other countries.
How would they feel if they were denied such assistance on account of their being African or Zimbabwean? Beware what you wish for.
Imagine If This Was Zim
It has emerged that a Saudi student at a UK university who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday was sentenced to 34 years in prison last week for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting the posts of activists. Salma al-Shehab, 34, a mother of two young children, was initially sentenced to serve three years in prison for the “crime” of using an internet website to “cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security”.
But an appeals court handed down the new sentence last week — the staggering 34 years in prison, followed by a 34-year travel ban! Just imagine the hullabaloo from the Masters of the Universe if the poor woman was a Zimbabwean! Which should tell all of us that Western sanctions are, generally speaking, never about democracy and human rights. As one Mavhure often says on Sosho, “Muchasvinura”.
Until next week, Azishe!