Africa-Press – Lesotho. YOU know something terrible is brewing when the public, media and politicians gang up on something. It’s a rarity that happens when their diametrically different interests converge.
In South Africa, the public, media and the government have formed a grand coalition of hate against Basotho. Now every rape and murder in South Africa is blamed on Basotho famo and gold gangs.
They have found the culprits to blame for the rampant crime that has been the daily bread for South Africans for decades. South Africa’s journalists are suddenly finding their way back to the poor communities to gather inflammatory quotes about Basotho being the instigators of heinous crimes like murder and rape.
The proudly incompetent ANC has found a smoking gun. South Africans, never measured and smart with their mouths, now know the source of the fire in their hell. Some local journalists are adding wood to the pyre. The truth is putting on its shoes while the lie is sprinting down the streets naked.
So far the evidence that Basotho are committing crimes in South Africa amounts to a few arrests and the absurd testimonies that suspects were wearing blankets and balaclavas.
According to the fabricators of this bunkum, there is a school in Lesotho teaching criminals to wear blankets and balaclavas. South Africans are hopelessly incompetent at wearing blankets and balaclavas.
There is no statistical evidence – collated, concocted or connoted – to prove that Basotho are the main criminals in South Africa. Zilch. And even if there is, it cannot possibly be Lesotho’s problem that the South African police are failing to stop the criminal activities.
It takes Muckraker two hours to write this column. In that time six South Africans would have been murdered. Not by Basotho but fellow South Africans.
That has been the trend and it will continue for as long as the ANC government pretends that the murderers are other people from other countries. In the next few minutes, a South African woman would have been raped.
Not by a Mosotho man but a South African. The same applies to robberies and car-jackings. Those too will continue for as long as the ANC government keeps looking across the river for a battalion of marauding criminals in blankets.
And since when has it been prudent government policy to blame other countries for crimes committed by their citizens as if there is some training institute for them?
Yes, some rogue Basotho are committing crimes. Yes, the gangs are vile beings. Yes, some of them have murdered, raped and maimed. But they are doing so in a sovereign country with police, laws and courts.
Catch and prosecute them. Throw the keys away. Build a wall on the borders, Trump-style, if you think that works. Lesotho hasn’t complained that the guns used to kill dozens of Basotho and in armed robberies are coming from South Africa.
We don’t moan about South Africa creating a lucrative market for our matekoane. We don’t cry that their banks are housing money stolen by our crooks in government.
We know that South Africa is the main destination of our trafficked women and children. We fail to deal with those problems every day. South Africa should do the same with its problems.
But you can be sure that it won’t because it keeps denying the obvious reality that it is just another rotten African country. It is misgoverned, corrupt and broke like many other African countries.
Welcome to the club of misery and tosh comrades. Come fast, we want to grab you by those rebellious ears and kiss you. Mwah, mwah, mwah! Now own and kiss your problems.
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