Broken Borders: South Africa's Crime Corridors
Afriforum's video investigation into our border crisis
There are fires in Paris, boats sinking in the Mediterranean and children dying on the Mexican side of the USA border.
The UK Government wants to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Turkey wants Sweden to send it Kurds. Ukraine’s aberrant xenophobia campaign is one reason why their country is in the ruins of war.
It’s payback for Western countries destabilising Africa, the Middle Eastern and South America through bombs and the dollar.
Immigration is a hotter topic than global warming. Politicians are stoking those coals into flame, misdirecting us away from their incompetence and corruption. It's the old trick: "Give the people an enemy, and they’ll vote for you."
The enemy are those poorer who don’t look or talk like us, a hatred masking of our dented ego.
SOUTH AFRICA’S BORDER CRISIS
It's payback in South Africa too.
The ANC, which has ruled since 1994, never stood against Zimbabwean and Mozambiquean corruption. The result is foreign criminal syndicates and oppressed citizens seeing our country as an opportunity to get rich or survive.
We’re told by political opportunists that immigrants have stolen our jobs and are raping our women.
Liberals, especially Western funded NGOs, tell us that immigrants are not a major crime problem, and that we, as a wannabe civilised society, should welcome them.
In between the extremes of rhetoric and false intention, the undeniable reality is a broken Government and consequent broken borders. South Africa is suffering.
Foreigners fleeing persecution by corrupt regimes should be helped, yet they are not the millions living here as low wage economic migrants. They are not the main reason for half our country being unemployed, but they are a reason. They are not the main reason for our insane levels of violence, but they are a crime factor.
Whining against our porous border, our corrupt cops and pathetic army, is as popular as Marmite, but few, including me, understand the situation. We comment according to what we read, and more often as reflex reaction to the State which has let us down whilst sticking its dirty hands in our pockets to rob us and squeeze our balls.
Living on the border and experiencing the disaster is the ultimate understanding but seeing it on video is our visceral education.
Afriforum, a non-governmental organisation, visited our borders to shoot three revealing short videos.
In the North, it’s business as usual with vendors selling cooldrinks to aliens crossing without worry.
In the east, by Mozambique and Swaziland, it’s the “carjacker’s carnival.
Eswatini children walk daily to school in South Africa, and labourers travel past the army base meant to stop them. Around landlocked Lesotho, farmers struggle with dagga smugglers and livestock thieves.
It's our State without care, our country battling for control, affecting all of us but especially those living on the edge. There, brave communities organise their own patrols.
CITIZENS FIGHTING BACK
Jacques Broodryk, AfriForum’s spokesperson for Community Safety and director of the documentary series, stated that:
“You really cannot understand how bad the situation is until you see it for yourself, and that’s exactly what this film aims to do. With these films, we take the viewer there, with us, to experience the chaos. Our border areas have turned into the Wild West, where it’s every man for himself. Communities have no choice but to take responsibility for their own safety, given the absolute disinterest by government to successfully police these areas. AfriForum has 159 neighbourhood watches countrywide, and many of these civilian safety structures fall in border areas. These volunteers must fight cross-border crime daily, and we’re very proud that this can showcase [them].”
How high is the possibility of a breakup/civil war or some other type longer lasting violence/war/insurgence in SA?