There have been some very well-written pieces of late on who and what has caused the xenophobic attacks of the past few weeks. Some pointed the finger at King Goodwill Zwelithini, some at Edward Zuma, others looked back on our violent history as the root cause of the anger.

Then there is Democratic Alliance federal deputy chairperson Makashule Gana, who addressed a small DA rally in Jozi and had some interesting things to say. We’ll hand over to City Press:

[He] urged South Africans to look at themselves and not blame nonnationals for stealing their jobs when these jobs didn’t exist in the first place.

“Go and start a spaza shop,” said Gana.

Hang on, though, here comes the real zinger:

He also said some South Africans blamed foreigners for taking their girlfriends, but they didn’t even have the courage to go and speak to a woman.

“If you can’t speak to a girl, now all of a sudden a man that comes from Zimbabwe or Nigeria that can speak to a girl now must be killed. What is that?”

…“So I ask my fellow brothers from South Africa, if you want a woman please go speak up, don’t go around and killing someone from Nigeria because they can speak up for themselves. Speak out because it is important!” he said.

These are our politicians, people, they make decisions that influence our daily lives. And only Nigerian men, Makashule, are you saying the rest of Africa doesn’t have any game?

The mind boggles sometimes, it really does.

[source:citypress]