Early morning shake-out run before the #StanChartNairobiMarathon in partnership with @itsdavidthuo and @werunnairobi 🔥

Kenyans are those cousins you realise later in life that we're close like that like that

The MK Party has now removed the eThekwini Mayoral candidate before she was even elected.

The propaganda being sold is that Black South Africans are barbaric, violent and uncivilised. This is White supremacist propaganda, And we cannot analyse the impending #June30 protests, Outside of that lens. White supremacists lied that Black South Africans were perpetrating genocide against White South Africans, They still have egg on their face due to this lie. But if 30 June results in mass violence against Black foreigners, White supremacists will rejoice & say you see, This is what we've been trying to tell you about "these people". It's sad to see the genuine grievances of Black South Africans, Being weaponised against them by global & domestic racist systems. Because we all know that Black South Africans are disenfranchised, Impoverished, & Excluded from the South African economy. It is neither here nor there the extent to which foreigners worsen this disenfranchisement, Fact is they are victims, And their grievances are real. Unfortunately, As in most cases where grievances exist, Their disillusionment due to their current circumstances, Has been hijacked by the very systems which brought upon the inequality in the first place. The goal could be to destabilise South Africa, And paint Black South African victims of inequality, As the aggressor. Classic DARVO! When they succeed in doing so, They will swoop in to "save the day", To restore and justify White supremacy, As they would have "proven" Black people are not only ungovernable, They are also unable to govern. Of course there's also the ICC case vs Israel. What is happening in SA is not unique to SA. Anti migrant sentiments are common everywhere, But when Brits, Americans, or the Irish perpetrate violence against migrants, The global media blames "fringe far-right groups", While anti-migrant violence in Africa is pathologised as a cultural trait, Red-flagging an entire population as inherently xenophobic. I am Zimbabwean, &My heart bleeds for the unfortunate foreigners in SA who are at the mercy of this manipulated rebellion, But I would be lying if I said I don't see the third hand, The geopolitical actors, intelligence networks, and digital disinformation campaigns, Present in the majority of conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. Did South African policies post apartheid, Ever focus on the grassroots reintergration of South Africans with the rest of Africa? Pan-African ideals like the African Renaissance remained at the macro leadership level, While ordinary South Africans remained isolated from the rest of Africa. It's short sighted to expect victims of oppression, To welcome what they view as more competitors for scarce resources, When little effort was made, To incentivise travel by South Africans to other countries. This brotherhood that we speak of, Is cold comfort to people who have known nothing but oppression. This is such a difficult issue to talk about, It needs sensitivity and careful nuance. Xenophobia is wrong. But focusing on Xenophobia, While ignoring the grievances that led us here, Is as futile as focusing on foreigners, Without interrogating the regional economic collapses pulling foreigners into South Africa, The corporate appetite for cheap unregulated labor, As well as the corrupt border management systems letting foreigners in. But above all, None of these conflicts can ever be solved, Without properly addressing the lasting inequality which was caused by, and left by Apartheid. The South African government has the responsibility to take their citizens grievances seriously, And they have the responsibility to address the inequality in South Africa. In the same breath, The International community has the responsibility to protect refugees. First by intervening meaningfully in the conflicts displacing people, From Sudan, DRC, Zimbabwe & other countries. The International community can't just be good for condemning #Xenophobia , An end result, Without stopping the conflicts pushing people out of their countries. #PrayforAfrica