🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦The xenophobia coming out of black South Africans has gone beyond ignorance; it has become a culture of blame, jealousy, and denial. And let’s be very clear before the usual gymnastics begin: this hatred is not driven by white South Africans. It is driven by black South Africans, aimed at foreigners—especially Nigerians and Ghanaians, Zimbabweans, Mozambicans etc whether black or white.
This woman standing there ranting about seeing “South Africans running naked in Nigeria” like it’s some moral scoreboard is the perfect example of how delusion has replaced self-reflection. Just like black mzansi to Nigerians in South Africa, Nigerians living in Nigeria are not lynching South Africans. Nigerians are not burning South African businesses. Nigerians are not dragging South Africans out of cars and stabbing them in daylight. But somehow, Nigeria is the problem?
Let’s count bodies since they like statistics.
How many Nigerians have been murdered in cold blood in South Africa?
How many shops looted?
How many homes burned?
How many lives cut short—then justified with “he was a Nigerian”?
Every crime in South Africa, suddenly the suspect is Nigerian.
A robbery? Nigerian.
Drug issue? Nigerian.
Unemployment? Nigerian.
Power failure? Probably Nigerian too—why not?
That’s not justice. That’s cowardice.
Xenophobia failed.
Then came Operation Dudula—another loud, empty circus.
When that collapsed, they descended into peak wickedness: blocking sick people from hospitals. Imagine being so broken that instead of fighting corrupt politicians, you fight a pregnant woman or a sick foreigner. That’s not bravery—that’s moral bankruptcy.
Now to the buildings argument—this one is my favorite comedy.
“They are occupying our buildings.”
Can you afford them?
Simple question.
If foreigners vacate those buildings tomorrow, can you pay the rent?
Can you maintain them?
Can you develop them?
The people who built those properties used capital, planning, and risk. Foreigners came, paid rent, paid tax, employed people, and kept the economy breathing. Take foreigners out of Johannesburg tomorrow and watch how fast the city gasps for oxygen.
And let’s address the elephant in the room they hate mentioning:
South Africa’s problem is not Nigerians.
It is joblessness, failed leadership, entitlement culture, and dependency on grants.
Grants are not a career path.
Grants are not economic policy.
Grants are welfare—not destiny.
Instead of demanding accountability from politicians who sold dreams and delivered excuses, it’s easier to shout “FOREIGNER!” like it’s a magic word.
And the irony?
The same people shouting “go home” forget that borders are human inventions, not divine property lines. No one descended from heaven with a South African passport stamped by God.
Black South Africans have mastered one dangerous skill:
never taking responsibility.
When it works, they are angels.
When it fails, it’s foreigners.
That mindset will never build a nation.
Nigeria has its problems—nobody denies that. Yes, Nigerian politicians have failed us repeatedly. But here’s the difference: Nigeria doesn’t solve failure by murdering outsiders. Nigeria doesn’t organize mobs to cleanse streets. Nigeria doesn’t need scapegoats to explain incompetence.
Blame games don’t create jobs.
Jealousy doesn’t build infrastructure.
Xenophobia doesn’t fix an economy.
Until South Africa learns that truth, it will keep fighting shadows while the real enemy—bad governance and self-inflicted stagnation—sits comfortably in parliament, untouched.
Harsh? Yes.
Necessary? Absolutely.
Because sometimes a mirror feels like an insult when you’ve avoided it for too long.
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