UDC says no to xenophobia
Wednesday, September 04, 2019
We join others in condemning these barbaric attacks. While we welcome the arrest of the perpetrators, more needs to be done to protect not only the lives but the properties of the foreign nationals in South Africa.
As Africans we should be striving to improve collaboration and cooperation between our countries and nationals after a prolonged, divisive and extractive system of colonialism and underdevelopment. More needs to be done to ensure cohesion and solidarity.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...