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Meet The South African King Whose Remarks Launched The Xenophobic Attacks
Zulu King Godwill Zwelithi’s utterances on March 23rd launched the Zenophobic attacks in South Africa and he had refused to apologize, even after finding out that his people have maimed, killed and destroyed businesses belonging to black foreigners. He’s still insisting that foreigners should go back to their countries but tried to save face by saying attacking the foreigners is not how to chase them away. He wants the government to do it legally.
During a speech in last month, Zwelithini called for the deportation of foreign nationals living in the country, saying it was unacceptable locals were being made to compete with people from other countries for the few economic opportunities available. King Zwelithi said “foreigners must pack their bags and go home”.
His three major complaints and why he wanted foreigners to go were; 1. SA traders in the townships said they could not compete with the prices that foreign-owned businesses were selling their products. 2; foreigners involved in crime. 3. Lack of respect shown by foreigners to locals.
Addressing Pongolo community members during a moral regeneration even, Zwelithini accused government of failing to protect locals from the “influx of foreign nationals”.He said;
“Most government leaders do not want to speak out on this matter because they are scared of losing votes. As the king of the Zulu nation, I cannot tolerate a situation where we are being led by leaders with no views whatsoever.
“We are requesting those who come from outside to please go back to their countries. The fact that there were countries that played a role in the country’s struggle for liberation should not be used as an excuse to create a situation where foreigners are allowed to inconvenience locals. I know you were in their countries during the struggle for liberation. But the fact of the matter is you did not set up businesses in their countries,” he said.
His comments were widely condemned with the SA DA describing it “highly irresponsible’ ‘Particularly given the recent spate of xenophobic attacks in South Africa, he should do the right thing – retract and apologise,”
He didn’t and his spokesman went on record to say the King had nothing to apologize for, that he meant every word he said.
“I think the people who’re complaining are misinterpreting his speech. He didn’t say foreigners must be attacked or harassed. The king was talking about foreigners who are here illegally. Some are involved in serious crimes like drug and human trafficking. We don’t need such people in our country so the king is right.” His spokesman said
After the killing spread across different cities, the king has relented a little and is planning to speak to his people this Monday in an effort to quell the attacks. He’s expected to address the public directly and clarify his statement and ask his people to stop the violence which his words started
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New Educated Zambia©
April 18, 2015 at 11:18 am
A kings utterances are now affecting us as zambians. This is purely a sign of how dependent we have become on other economies due to poor economic management by the pf government. Without south African economy we are nothing and in lungus case without south Africa hospital he nothing. We in upnd are begging you to make the right choice in 2016 and vote upnd
Shaka Zulu
April 18, 2015 at 12:25 pm
I understand you are the first child your father had after being cured from impotence by a witchdoctor. So you are a concoction of traditional herbs.
ZWANGENDABA
April 18, 2015 at 7:36 pm
Iwe Shaka Zulu walifulunganaaaaa! kIKIKIKIKI!
king solomon
April 18, 2015 at 8:06 pm
Pompus foreigners like Gbm bragging about in South Africa can contribute to xenophobic incidents. But its only that zulu king who can stop it by retracting his careless statement.
Czar
April 18, 2015 at 1:33 pm
You are not only insane but nauseating.
AMASHOKO KOPALA
April 18, 2015 at 11:37 am
ati new zed ponyo ponyo shat up dog………UPND AMAFI MUMANO
New Educated Zambia©
April 18, 2015 at 1:18 pm
I apologize for my idiotic behavior otherwise a rabies dog bite me causing inflammation of my brain.I apealing for well wishers to me to hospital for immunohistochemistry procedure.
New Educated Zambia©
April 18, 2015 at 5:56 pm
ba imposter you are not fooling anyone. People know that you are a wannabe just by your illiterate way of articulating things. Grow out of it mune. Come 2016 change is coming whether you like it or not pathako pinu kiki stay strong
Amaka
April 18, 2015 at 11:48 am
Nez you are not a good analizer. You need a base for your aguments.
Kapyamo-Sarajevo-Bosnia
April 18, 2015 at 12:18 pm
Y deserting your own country? Then join me here in Bosnia,or else ka zwelithini kazakusilzani
mj banda
April 18, 2015 at 12:27 pm
Some people are just useless, everything it’s PF, even if he fails kunya, ati ni PF.
LUNGISAN
April 18, 2015 at 12:34 pm
these guys are brutal just look at him infact to all zambians this violent man is a reflection of hh this means voting for hh is actually allowing xenophobic behaviour.
Adam
April 18, 2015 at 12:47 pm
Ungrateful Swines. I know see why white South Africans hate the black South Africans, Apartheid should never have ended. I read some uneducated South African idiots tweet insulting Zambians, If it weren’t for Apartheid they would never have had that kind of infrastructure. The moment blacks take over, crime is up, load shedding and potholes are created. The sweat of the white man has been destroyed by their dull government. To hell with Bafana Bafana.
ZWANGENDABA
April 18, 2015 at 7:58 pm
Too harsh my brother. your words are too terrible. Slavery and apartheid should never be wished upon the blackman again. Iam sure the South Africans who are not xenophobic will eventually triumph. They just need to stand up and get themselves heard
KAPOWELA WAMU P*U*S*S*Y
April 18, 2015 at 1:16 pm
SO EBA CHIKALA ABBA AKAA?!!!AFRICA LETS ISOLATE SA,ALL FLIGHT TO SA MUST BE CANCELLED THEIR SERVICES PUCKED,BOADERS CLOSED AND LETS SEE HOW THEIR ECONOMY WILL BE FCKED UP JUST IN 5MONTHSM.NO FOREX BAFIKALA
New Educated Zambia©
April 18, 2015 at 1:18 pm
I apologize for my idiotic behavior otherwise a rabies dog bite me causing inflammation of my brain.I apealing for well wishers to me to hospital for immunohistochemistry procedure.
Denkete
April 18, 2015 at 1:52 pm
@NEZ, do you sleep? U are owez the 1st to comment on evry post. Yo comment is almost the same even wen posts are different. To me this proves my fears that if upnd was given an opportunity to rule, cadres like u wud be singing praise songs to hh even wen he is answering the call of nature.
CROWNED PRINCE
April 18, 2015 at 2:35 pm
kikikikikikikikikikikiki. NEZ BASTURD.
Nandime
April 18, 2015 at 3:09 pm
@ NEZ, he is a full time employee of HH hired to blog on these sites day and night. For yo imfor this is the strategy of UP n DN party, to spread proganda, influence people’s minds with their constant raantings in the hope of ascending to plot 1
Galilea
April 18, 2015 at 4:08 pm
NEZ is correct. Economic mismanagement has landed our fellow Zambians in the jaws of the lion. Let govt improve the economy things will change.
All condemning NEZ are insane and need mental check up at chainama. Some idiots fail to reason. They want everybody to support something that has failed. Know that all are not pf or upnd cadres.
It is economic mismanagement by responsible failing finance minister Chikwanda leading to such bad news.
Improve the chikwandanomics and develop uth some of these things may be lessened.
The concerns by RSA citizens are genuine. But the action taken is not good.
NEZ’s point is genuine. Govt need to improve the economy.
@NEZ continue choking the bastards/retards until they hung themselves.
Mukose bane. NEZ haleisa, haisa.
Posa po nomba naiwe mune.
VAMPIRO
April 18, 2015 at 5:29 pm
Are you saying that it die to economic mismanagement for Chinese Americans British Indians to be in south Africa. Answer me chikala. If your answer is yes then I ‘ll join Upnd today.
New Educated Zambia©
April 18, 2015 at 5:55 pm
how do you compare the chinese, americans and british who came to steal your resources and then on top of that control you? How foolish can you be to compare the two? Open that big head of yours and think like a sensible citizen of the republic of zambia. There were different incentives involved. Majority of zambians move because they have been failed and disappointed in their own countries.
VAMPIRO
April 18, 2015 at 5:31 pm
Typo ..must read its due to economic….
kafwimbi
April 18, 2015 at 5:56 pm
Hunger vs poverty . Poorest in world shame on our leader .
GRAND
April 18, 2015 at 6:58 pm
Uneducated zambian, can not think beyond PF.
New Educated Zambia©
April 18, 2015 at 7:10 pm
kiki only an idiot cannot see the link in my well informed comments. Let those with eyes and brains see and understand things. Continue living a wild dream that everything is ok
ZWANGENDABA
April 18, 2015 at 7:42 pm
If South Africa is really worried about its standing in Africa its government officials should read various sites from different African countries. I have read plenty including francophone ones and there is noone where views support South Africa. Everyone is condemning the country. They a truly isolated country on the ground. Its only top government officials on the continent who are trying to pretend to make attempts at healing the rift caused by xenophobia in Sasa Filika
ZWANGENDABA
April 18, 2015 at 7:55 pm
The King exhibits great lack of knowledge. He doesnt even know his history. The fact that his people came all the way from Congo into South Africa in the 15th century and the fact that some of these people again left Kwazulu in the 19th century-like me Zwangendaba-to spread into the rest of Southern Africa should have made him more careful about being too territorial. He should leave that kind of talk to uneducated little boys who know nothing about Africa.
The white man is the one who came and confined africans including Zulus to the places they now live in after 1870. After the white man partitioned Africa africans stopped moving from one part of the continent to the other because the white man introduced borders and passports and visas which we never had before. I have never heard an African King say xenophobic statements such as this because all of them know that the whole continent is their home.
Even after Europe divided it the hope by progressive africans is that it can become one borderless mass of land again
Phiri
April 18, 2015 at 11:19 pm
You are very right. Africans are such robots! A white man came and drew borders between them and when he left they are still hanging on to these borders as if they are godsent! South africans are still hanging on to all the separations the white man created like racism, tribalism and the one they were taught which said that south africa is not africa. Africa the racist told them, is beyond Limpopo river. This is brainwashing. African govts always need to untrained sh their people after getting into office. By hanging on to what the white man did you are agreeing that he was right. Right to divide you. Right to oppress you right to enslave you.
Phiri
April 18, 2015 at 11:23 pm
I meant to say
“African govts always need to unbrainwash their people after getting into office. “
FuManchu
April 18, 2015 at 9:02 pm
“………But the fact of the matter is you did not set up businesses in their countries,” Well I do not think King Zwelithini has got it right here unless he wants to admit that those of his compatriots that were hosted by neighboring countries during the liberation struggle subsisted totally on handouts from their hosts! Some of us know of South African neighbors who established businesses to help themselves as well as help inject into the liberation coffers proceeds from their businesses. The king is hateful!
Reporter
April 19, 2015 at 2:32 am
I worked for the Palesa news agency. It was in lusaka Zambia and was owned by a South African.
kachiwanda
April 18, 2015 at 9:05 pm
chamba king .
johnny
April 18, 2015 at 9:37 pm
South African`s need a white prsident to become wise. These people are not educated from the beginning so I think they need knowledge to be wise. Foolish people they are. My landlord is a south african so lets see what his gonna say when time cames for me to pay my rents after all his countrymates are doing. Here in Zambia we even stoped buying in south african shop like spar, shoprite, game and pick n pay.
New Educated Zambia©
April 18, 2015 at 9:42 pm
just vote wisely next time and not based on ifintu ni lungu. that way you can become empowered and become a landlord yourself. rather than inconveniencing us with problems you are facing because you are now not wanted in other’s countries. Deep down you know that if your economy was put right by UPND we wouldnt see the need to become economic migrants
Profate
April 18, 2015 at 11:29 pm
You are being foolish. It’s the white man who indoctrinated them to not think. Or to think the way King Zwelithini is thinking. If you bring him back you will be a victim of his machinations. He left black people in an unthinking mode so they could start wishing he was around.
johnny
April 18, 2015 at 9:43 pm
Zambian radio stations have all stoped playing south african music by this time coz …………………………
New Educated Zambia©
April 18, 2015 at 9:48 pm
as if that will change the fact that zambia’s economy is poor which leads to many becoming economic migrants and reliant on other countrys’ economies. Let us face the root cause of this. It is poor governance and lack of accountability which is the pfs only achievements since 2011.
one tim
April 18, 2015 at 10:43 pm
foolish nez Africa is a global village
pretty one
April 18, 2015 at 10:43 pm
Nez! U talk sense. A lot
kas
April 18, 2015 at 10:53 pm
I understands that even hh has got some houses in xenophobic(south Africa)
PERCY Mist
April 18, 2015 at 11:32 pm
Yes he has
New Educated Zambia©
April 18, 2015 at 11:45 pm
so? he is a house owner whereas the majority of zambians are just barely making ends meet there. Once voted in, we want you all to be the next HH. Landlords in foreign countries. proud to be zambian.
Hello Haters
April 19, 2015 at 6:30 am
OMG!!! These guys do they smoke the same weed everyone smokes? What about owning a house in SA? What south africans are saying is that foreigners are taking their jobs and making the country dirt by doing shoddy businesses,what they want is you doing genuine business and not taking their jobs,HH and GBM have shown us that you can do business with them and not not stay that side, we can all do the same, owning property in another country is one trend business people and celebrities across the world do, he is not the only Zambian who does that, but many own properties across the globe, mune you just hating. get a life.
bumper 2 bumper
April 19, 2015 at 12:16 am
NEZ there u re rite,am bhind u on economic issues,200% correct!
Victor
April 19, 2015 at 2:44 am
This fool doesn’t know how these countries he is insulting scarified a lot so that his stinking behind could have the position he is enjoying. I am ashamed of South Africa, they make ISIS and Boko Haram look “better!” What a shame and an excuse of an illiterate pathetic uneducated bunch of people.
Popa
April 19, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Stupid king marubish
Popa
April 19, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Lazy bunch of stupid idoits killing fellow blacks.boko will visit them soon
umuzambia
April 19, 2015 at 5:24 pm
inkhosi yamanga ya masimba icitha umuzi we sinthu abaselungu uyabesaba .foolish king who divides black people instead of the whites who are the real foreigners in Africa.
jac
April 19, 2015 at 9:01 pm
It’s not right to kill each other no matter what. The King was right but didnt use wisdom. Also political leaders should learn to listen Than acting when things get out of hand. Same in Zambia it pains to see how foreigners are busy trading,buying land,getting NRC etc illegally,no work permit,no nothing but Your People are suffering. Am not in support of killing foreigners but let certain jobs and businesses be for the locals who voted for You.
MAFUPA YOKOYOKO
April 19, 2015 at 9:58 pm
NEZ mambala what are you saying? Even Americans, Britons etc are in SA, so you are telling us that they are there because their economies are not doing well. Hopeless analysis, you no different from your useless HH and now I know why you support him so much, you the same brain capacity….
john zulu
April 19, 2015 at 10:43 pm
Very useless monarch, infact the zulu kingdom never participated in the freedom struggle they were busy eating with the oppressor we know them. He must be charged and made to appear at the Hague.
John Tseidukan Kwempa
April 20, 2015 at 8:54 am
No wonder nomutwe kwati kaku wamisha mu toilet the chi thing looks sick even.
Mzee Hekima
April 20, 2015 at 11:58 am
This a demon infested King. Small wonder he thinks its Shaka’s time wizard