XENOPHOBIA: WHEN HATE BREEDS “HATE RED” BETWEEN NIGERIA, S/A

Amaso Jack

“Political figures in South Africa have condemned the latest attacks on foreigners in Durban. At the same time, their anti-migrant rhetoric ahead of elections on May 8 is fueling the country’s simmering xenophobia.” Kate Hairsine – https://www.dw.com/en/south-africas-politicians-feed-anti-foreigner-violence/a-48157900

Kate Hairsine report, of April 2nd 2019, was written with the General elections of 8th May, 2019 in South Africa, in view. The elections might have come and gone, (been won and lost) but the conception of pre election xenophobia has become the child of DESTRUCTION, born! for several to die!

While some South African politicians double talk, with elections in view, others by fascist like extreme nationalism, have by their utterances, gone dangerously beyond the limits, one such politician is Bongani Michael Mkongi, who was South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Police in 2017 under President Jacob Zuma.

FACTS: By the fact checked evidence of Naphtali Khumalo, published on September 4, 2019, Bongani Michael Mkongi’s video is a statement of two sides:

On one side, Khumalo debunks Mkongi’s 80%, claim of foreigner occupation of Hillbrow, a suburb of Johannesburg, as having no factual basis. This 80% talk, was a clear white propaganda attempt in favour of xenophobics.

On the other hand, the release of his 2017 provocative video, at this critical moment of hate in 2019, is an appeal to the anti-xenophobics in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: BONGANI MICHAEL MKONGI, A TRADITION OF WHITE PROPAGANDA.

WHITE PROPAGANDA: “Propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from.” The Free Dictionary –https://www.thefreedictionary.com/white+propaganda

Evidence 1

You cant find South Africans in other countries dominating a city up to 80%… we cannot surrender South Africa to foreign nationals.” Bongani Michael Mkongi Bongani Michael Mkongi – https://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/news/south-african-deputy-minister-of-police-defends-xenophobic-attacks-watch-video

Evidence 2

“Mbalula is said to have lost patience with Mkongi, who claimed that 80% of the Johannesburg suburb of Hillbrow was occupied by foreigners who were hijacking buildings. Mkongi said locals had no place to stay, and suggested that even a future president could be a foreigner if South Africans did not fight for their land. Mkongi defended his remarks during an interview on Power98.7 this week.” Thabo Mokone; July 30, 2017 – https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2017-07-29-how-fikile-mbalulas-deputy-misbehaved/

In 2017, Fikile Mbalula was the senior police minister whose deputy, Bongani Mkongi made the very inciting remarks.

Evidence 3

“[Mkongi] has been doing all sorts of reckless things. He inspects police stations without even consulting the minister first, so the minister has asked the president to intervene.” Thabo Mokone’s 2nd Evidence of July 30, 2017 – https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2017-07-29-how-fikile-mbalulas-deputy-misbehaved/

MASHABA: A WHITE PROPAGANDA ALLY OF MKONGI

“A few weeks after Mkongis comments, Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba, made a variation of this claim, saying that as many as 80%of the residents of Johannesburgs inner city were undocumented foreigners.“ Naphtali Khumalo – https://africacheck.org/reports/unproven-that-hillbrow-nearby-areas-are-80-foreign-national-as-claimed-in-much-shared-video/

FACTS BY NAPHTALI KHUMALO

“Robinson Sathekge is head of the City of Johannesburgs migrant help desk.  He told Africa Check that currently, the city does not have any accurate numbers or percentages as to the number of migrants in the city or Hillbrow specifically.”. Naphtali Khumalo, Africa Facts Check – https://africacheck.org/reports/unproven-that-hillbrow-nearby-areas-are-80-foreign-national-as-claimed-in-much-shared-video/

The cross checked facts by Naphtali Khumalo established the following:

1. The claims by both Mkongi and Herman Mashaba the mayor of Johannesburg on the number of foreigners have no factual basis.

2. The video was made in 2017 not 2019 as the General impression has it.

VITAL INTEREST, FEAR OR HATE?

Ancient Egyptian King, and mentor of Mkongi and Mashaba, who didn’t Know Joseph

With these words, Mkongi and Mashaba clearly had the ancient Biblical king of Egypt, as their mentor.  Like him, they felt the VITAL NATIONAL Interest of their country, was under threat of foreign internal expansion.

It must be clearly understood that vital INTEREST is the soul of a country, its national epicentre its National “ground zero”

MKONGI’S ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCRIPT

“Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.” Exodus 1:8-11 KJV

“And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:” Exodus 1:9 KJV

“Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.” Exodus 1:10 KJV.

“Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.“ Exodus 1:11 KJV

THE OFFICIAL POSITION 1: FIKILE MBALULA, SOUTH AFRICA’S 2017 SENIOR POLICE MINISTER

“Police Minister Fikile Mbalula is said to have reported his deputy, Bongani Mkongi to President Jacob Zuma for misbehaving. Sources in the police told the Sunday Times this week that Mbalula called Mkongi to a meeting and gave him a dressing-down.” https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2017-07-29-how-fikile-mbalulas-deputy-misbehaved/

MKONGI vs MBALULA: A SUBTERFUGE ?

Merriam-webster’s Thesaurus has this entry on the word subterfuge

“Right Synonym for subterfuge deception, fraud, double-dealing, subterfuge, trickery” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subterfuge

QUESTION 1: Did the contrary positions in conflict of Fikile Mbalula; Senior police minister  and the contrary position of his deputy, Bongani Mkongi; junior police minister and pro xenophobic attacks, amount to subterfuge in 2017 and even now?

QUESTION 2: What firm action did President Jacob Zuma take, based on what President Truman did when General Douglas MacArthur made an “unauthorized statement”?

“MacArthur was fired, Truman said, so that there would be no doubt or confusion as to the real purpose and aim of our policy”

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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/president-truman-fires-gen-macarthur-april-11-1951-237055

OBSERVATION: Truman specifically used the word POLICY!

QUESTION 3: What is the covert Policy of the South African Government on the subject …the content of hush-hush talk best understood within the context of Nixon’s “Smoking Gun“?

“Perhaps the most famous of all presidential recordings, this clip is known as The Smoking Gunbecause it directly connected Nixon to the break-in at Watergate. In the tape made on June 23, 1972, Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, discuss using the CIA to stop FBI investigators from pursuing the case.”https://news.virginia.edu/content/caught-tape-three-most-important-presidential-recordings-american-history

HUMAN RESOURCES MAXIM ON HIRE AND FIRE AS A PUBLIC STATEMENT

President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur on April 11, 1951 and replaced him with Gen. Matthew Ridgeway during the Korean War.

MacArthur’ is the evidence of Truman’s “undocumented”doctrine, that no one indespensable.

Douglas MacArthur? History.com said of him:

He is “larger than life”. 

He was “SCAP”; Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, in command of the vital interest of the Allies in the Southwest Pacific from 1939-1945, during World War II.

On August 15, 1945, Hirohito the Emperor of Japan and bully of the East, that included China and SouthEast Asia broadcast what amounted to surrender.

On September 2, 1945,  at 9 in the morning Japanese time, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan’s Foreign Minister, signed the instrument of surrender,  aboard the battleship USS Missouri, docked in the Tokyo bay and flying the flags of the United States and her allies like USSR and Great Britain.

Between 1945 and 1951, MacArthur was in effectively in charge of defeated and occupied Japan, meeting with Hirohito half yearly.

Between 1950-1953 he commanded the UN forces in the Korean War. He was fired for making “unauthorized policy statements”on the Korean war!

Truman knew the Human Resource  (HR) maxim “don’t hire if you can’t fire”!

If Truman could fire MacArthur, why didn’t Zuma fire Bongani Mkongi?

There is no evidence that Zuma took any firm action against Bongani Mkongi, however, this EVIDENCE by Thabo Mokone (in the same article made reference to earlier) has this information on Bongani Mkongi

“He is no stranger to controversy. Last year, while still an ANC backbencher in parliament, he called for a Cape Town building on which a #ZumaMustFall billboard had been erected to be burnt down and its inhabitants to be “burnt to death.”https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2017-07-29-how-fikile-mbalulas-deputy-misbehaved/

From the EXPERIENCE of Truman/MacArthur, when nothing happens to a minister after a controversial STATEMENT, what he said could be taken as POLICY! If he is fired, what he said would be his “OPINION”, expressed in the atmosphere of Policy!

Jacob Zuma never fired Bongani Mkongi on the contrary, Bongani Mkongi was in firm defence of the Zuma.

Between July 2017 and Zuma’s resignation on 14 February 2018, was a six month period,

“Mr Zuma, who has been in power since 2009, faces numerous allegations of corruption”https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43066443

Was Zuma too occupied fighting to keep his job, that he didn’t have time for Bongani Mkongi xenophobia ?

Was Bongani Mkongi fighting for his job by being Zuma’s defence advocate ?

The matter ended in a Cul-de-sac on 14 February 2018 when Zuma resigned and it died and was buried when Cyril Ramaphosa named his cabinet of 60 senior and junior ministers; Bongani Michael Mkongi was one name synonymous with xenophobia that was excluded!

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