Die Nigeriese regering het glo ’n ultimatum aan die Suid-Afrikaanse regering gestel om die geweld teen hulle burgers te keer, en gedreig dat Suid-Afrikaanse ondernemings in Nigerië gesluit sal word indien dit aanhou.
Meer as 100 Suid-Afrikaanse maatskappye, waaronder MTN, Standard Bank, Sasol, Shoprite, MultiChoice en Mr Price, doen sake in Nigerië, volgens die Nigeries-Suid-Afrikaanse Sakekamer.
Nigerië sê ultimatum, wat blykbaar aan die Suid-Afrikaanse ambassade in Nigerië gerig was, kon nie deur MTN bevestig word nie.
MTN se totale omset verlede jaar het vir meer as die helfte op Afrika staatgemaak.
In Nigerië het die maatskappy in 2014 bykans R54 miljard se omset gehad, veel groter as die R39 miljard wat die maatskappy in Suid-Afrika genereer.
Die vier groot banke, naamlik FirstRand, Standard Bank, Barclays en Nedbank is ook op die vasteland gefokus. Standard Bank het die grootste teenwoordigheid in Afrika en byna ‘n derde van sy omset kom van buite die land.
Shoprite is die kontinent se grootste voedselkettingwinkelgroep en selfs in lande soos Angola en Nigerië wat afhanklik is van ‘n goeie olieprys, kon die kleinhandelaar ‘n styging van 15% in sy winste behaal.
Suid-Afrikaanse maatskappye bekommer dat die xenofobiese geweld hul beeld skade kan berokken.
Sasol het 340 Suid-Afrikaanse werkers inderhaas onttrek by gasaanleg in Temane, Noord-Mosambiek, nadat Mosambiekers oor hulle teenwoordigheid gekla het, het ‘n Sasol-woordvoerder gesê.
In 2014 het 30% van ons land se totale uitvoere na die res van Afrika gegaan, soveel as na Asië, terwyl net 13% van die totale invoer uit Afrika kom.
Afrika bied ‘n mark wat vervaardigde produkte insluit en nie net grondstowwe nie.
Ironies, 5 buitelanders is vermoor en die wereld ruk op. In dieselde tydperk is 8 blankes vermoor wat skaars in die media gedek is. Indien enige iemand nog twyfel………..niemand gee om wat met ons gebeur nie. Jy kan nie staatmaak op die kroeks in die blou klere nie – wakker wees daarbuite.
‘n Paar uittreksels van Garikai Chengu (Nigeriër dalk?) se “Xenophobia in South Africa: The Apartheid Legacy of Racism and ‘White Corporate Capitalism’” op Global Research:
The White monopoly capitalist system … is the post-Apartheid economic system whereby Whites exert disproportional and undemocratic control over the economy, land, media and judicial system.
Citigroup ranked South Africa as the world’s richest country in terms of its mineral reserves, worth an estimated $2.5 trillion. South African Whites and Western foreigners own a staggering 80 percent of this wealth.
Blacks in rural areas have lost 600 000 jobs since Independence.
During the Apartheid Era, White monopoly capitalists created the township. The process included evicting Black people from properties that were in areas designated as “White only”, and relocating them into urban townships. Blacks were forced to move into squalid, overcrowded and segregated townships, designed to mould the Black labour force into an orderly, submissive underclass.
Streets of grim “matchbox houses” were arranged in strict grids… allowing the White regime’s police to seal off entire neighbourhoods with minimal effort.
Far from being a Rainbow Nation, ongoing xenophobic violence in townships exposes the nation’s further entrenchment into two separate and unequal societies: one Black and poorin the townships; the other, largely White and affluent in the suburbs.
The xenophobic Black-on-Black violence is a direct result of centuries of White-on-Black violence and oppression.
Internalised racism is a major legacy of Apartheid. South African society judges violence inflicted on Blacks less harshly than violence against Whites.
Filtered through the racist lens of the predominantly White-owned South African media, xenophobia is portrayed as merely further examples of “Black-on-Black” violence by an inherently unruly and violent underbelly of society.
A few kilometers away at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, (of) the 295 companies on the Exchange, only 4 percent of the CEOs are Black. Despite twenty years of South African democracy, five White-owned companies still control 75 percent of South Africa’s stock market. It’s the largest concentration of wealth and power on earth.
Corporate powers, which underwrote Apartheid in South Africa, are reminiscent of German companies that ran the Third Reich’s economy. The only difference between the Reich and Apartheid is “reconciliation” in Germany did not leave pro-Nazi financiers in business; in South Africa, those financiers are still firmly in control. These White-owned companies benefit immensely from cheap Black labour, tourist revenue and retail profits that stream out of townships everyday.
Neo-Apartheid companies in South Africa made record profits for Western shareholders since 1994; while they shed hundreds of thousands of jobs. At independence, unemployment stood at 15 percent; today, that figure has skyrocketed to 25 percent. Instead of employing South Africans, major White-owned companies have sought to increase shareholder profits by outsourcing jobs abroad and hiring exploitable African foreigners.
Cosatu said that, “White monopoly capital in the hospitality and retail industry” had chosen to employ foreigners over their South African counterparts. The United Nations confirmed that the recent wave of xenophobic, “attacks began in late March following an apparent labour dispute involving South African and foreign workers”.
The power of White monopoly capital to dispossess, oppress and exploit Black people cannot be overstated. The willing and conscious ally, in the form of an African government, routinely places the interests of White capital over Black labour.
Garikai Chengu is a scholar at Harvard University.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/xenophobia-in-south-africa-the-apartheid-legacy-of-racism-and-white-corporate-capitalism/5443965
Jip, klink of ons die skuldiges gaan wees. Hierdie is die aanloop na hulle ekonomiese vryheid, in Afrikaans vertaal, maak die wit man dood dan vat jy sy goed en dan is jy vry
Natuurlik, hierdie is deel van die “meme” wat gevestig moet word sodat die aanvalle wat hulle op ons gaan loods “geregverdig” sal wees.
Afrikalande kla oor SA onder ‘n wit regering en hulle kla oor SA onder ‘n swart regering. Hulle het almal gejuig en partytjie gehou oor Die Klerk se oorgawe, maar nou is net die babalaas oor.
Nou kom hulle ook agter dat dit beter was onder die witman.