‘Why Is The Idea Of A Foreigner Never Applied To White People?’ – ANC Secretary General Magashule

Riyaz Patel

ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule has described the ongoing spate of violent protests in parts of the country as criminality and not xenophobia.

Speaking at a SA Students Congress (Sasco) elections rally at the Tshwane University of Technology, he warned that “anti-revolutionaries” were using tribalism to pit Africans against one another.

In his address, punctuated with rapturous applause, he cautioned South Africans against turning on their fellow African brothers and sisters.

“You are South Africans but remember, you are Africans, living in a continent called Africa. Never despise people who have the same skin colour [as] us,” Magashule said.

He also questioned why the idea of a “foreigner” never applied to white people.

“There are many others with a whitish colour. You don’t know them. They are there. You see them all the time but you can’t say this one ke le kwerekwere,” Magashule said, using the derogatory term