Afrophobic Anti-black Operation Fiela-Reclaim

Afrophobic Anti-black Operation Fiela-Reclaim

In the aftermath of the 2015 Afrophobic attacks that originated in KwaZulu-Natal and spread to Gauteng and other parts of South Africa, the South African government had to be seen to be taking action and doing something. The question was what was to be done? What complicated the issue for our government was failure to take responsibility about what had happened. Black skinned and dark skinned foreign nationals had been attacked, from the ensuing violence, no white individuals; foreign or local were caught up in the blood thirsty frenzy. While the general public saw these attacks as xenophobia, the government saw it as normal criminal activity by particular syndicates. Those with the Afro perspective correctly viewed them as targeted attacks aimed specifically at black foreign by coward South African blacks who were defeated by the Apartheid government, defeated by the white protecting ANC government at the expense of improving the lives of the local black poor for the better. In their frustration and cowardice in their hopelessness, they saw an easy target in the vulnerable black foreign nationals who unfortunately, unlike the general white population, foreign and local, do not enjoy the protection of the ruling elite.

Following weeks of call for government action, government spinning and responsibility dodging, a governmental inter-ministerial committee (IMC) was urgently set up to tackle the issue. Leading from the front in this committee was the Ministry of State Security (Intelligence), who had dismally failed to detect and prevent this may in the first place. This committee is comprised of Departments of Home Affairs, Defence, Police, State Security, Presidency and Social Development. After deliberations overnight the IMC hatches the idea of a joint operation to deal with the matter once and for all. Operation Fiela-Reclaim comes to life and we see the military and police hit the streets of Alexandra in early dawn. The state shouts from the rooftops saying this is only a start; they will be raiding all crime spots countrywide to sweep clean our streets of all criminal elements. House raids, stops and searches are conducted with swift speed in poor black populated areas, city centres and filthy city downtowns across the country. So far all targets, victims and culprits are black and dark skinned, foreign and local alike. White criminals and law abiding citizens, foreign and local are not part of this experience at all. Gang violence ensues in the Cape Flats during the same period, no army or police are sent to gang hotspots and no reason is given from the government.

During this operation, blacks are thrown to jails; black foreign nationals are sent home packing by a black ANC-led South African government. On a daily basis state officials to the mass media to inform us the numbers of criminals, weapons, illegal foreigners having been netted by their operations the previous night. All the unfortunate ones caught in this hive of activity by our security agencies.

What is even more curious about all this facade by the state is that behind the high fences and bricked walls of formerly whites only suburbia, criminal, syndicate and mafia bosses and kingpins are watching from their mega flat screens as their black foot soldiers are harassed by their own kind. They know pretty well that this government is really afraid of whites, they will never touch them. Our police crime intelligence and state intelligence agencies are very much aware of the mega scale of crimes committed by the white population in this country, but for one reason or the other they never raise a finger against these ruthless white criminals. For them it is much easier to target the poor, voiceless and powerless blacks and parade them for our white owned and white controlled mass media to make a big spectacle of black criminality.

These attacks, government operations and all publicity by mass media are not really aimed at tackling crime and criminality in the country at large. They are a result of a deep seated hatred for blacks and anything black. Black South Africans has been mislead and whitewashed to believe they are better than and much civilized than other blacks elsewhere in the continent. White South Africans have been told they are superior to blacks in every human aspect possible. What we are seeing now is a toxic collusion and a toxic relationship of the anti black white sentiment combined with self hatred by local blacks that has resulted in the venomous concoction that is Operation Fiela-Reclaim. Fiela is a Sotho word meaning “sweep”. In essence, the state is legitimizing Goodwill Zwelithini’s misguided viewpoint that black people from elsewhere in the continent are dirt and dirty, they have brought with them all their dirt to our shores. So, they are deserving to be swept out and away in the most horrible, cruel and inhumane ways possible.

All those Anti-Xenophobic programmes and events are just a public relations exercise by the government to be able to point and say but we are doing something to stem out the violence against our brothers and sisters. The same government officials who give speeches and cut ribbons at these events by day, are the same people who sign off repatriation orders and arrest warrants by night. If anything, this Operation Fiela-Reclaim is a reinforcement of anti black perspective and behaviour by white fearing local blacks and a weak black state that foreign blacks are criminals and cannibals and white foreigners are investors, tourists and job creators. Shame on all of us. We are not free until we free our minds from the mental and psychological shackles of white supremacy, colonialism and Apartheid. Let first Fiela the anti black racist white supremacist rot from our heads.