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Stop Riding Down South Africa, and Africa.

Whoever labels South Africa as Anti-African and Anti-Pan Africanist is themself Anti-African and Anti-Pan Africanist.
They give aid and confort to foreign forces seeking to demean South Africa's stand against Aparthied and its stand for Human Rights internationally. Any attack on South African is an attack on all Africans.

What is Xenophobia? To paraphrase a noted saying, to demean or to condemn someone, first, give them a strange name.
Isn't it strange that state-sponsored anti-immigrant activities in West is not called Xenophobia. What a word!
Are Africans nations going on PR rant to "EVACUATE" their citizens from xenophobic-USA, for example?
Xenophobia and anti-immigrant is not a South African government, state, policy.

Every nation on earth regulates the entry and the preogatives of foreigners within their borders. South Africa and all African nations do the same.

Pan Africanism is not a license to disregard national laws.
Pan Africanism is an ideal. There is no agreed upon legal, codified formulation of Pan Africanism - no rights and privilidges.
Yes, there is a African Union that incoropates some of the ideals and principles and the ideals of Pan Africanism; however, the FREE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE between African nations is ONLY RATIFIED BY FOUR (4) OF 55 COUNTRIES (Mali, Niger, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe.
It needs 15 ratifications to enter into force}. Untill then, South Africa like all nations have the right to restrict illegal immigrantion.

Those living in the land of Pan African idealism need to get off their white horses and demand that their country become ratifiers to the Free Movement of People within the African continent. And, at the same time see to it that there is free movement of people, and uncorrupted availability of opportunities within their individual countries.

Some say that South Africans are ungrateful - South Africa owe them for supporting the liberation of South Africa from Aparthied. No. We did not liberate South Africa. We liberate Africa, ourselves, and all that's possible for ourselves as Africans.

By Kwasi Akyeampong
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