South Africas Alienation Crisis: Beyond Xenophobia

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]I can show you this moment, 10 videos of you blacks hunting down other black human beings and beating them in the streets.

[00:00:09]For no reason other than they are immigrants. Now, hold on. Can you show me 10 videos?

[00:00:16]10 videos of you guys hunting down whites and beating them in the streets?

[00:00:22]Just one.

[00:00:23]>> Could you Could you do that? What you're saying this is This is the conversation we have amongst each other as black South Africans. I'm asking you a simple question, madam. I'm not asking you to give me all this unrelated stuff. I'm telling you I can find 10 videos right this moment of you blacks hunting down Africans in South Africa who are not from your country, according to you, and beating them in the streets. Can you show me 10 videos of you guys doing that to whites? Yes or no?

[00:00:51]No, not in in recent news, but this we don't condone this. We give 48 hours >> [music] >> to all South African people staying in Congo.

[00:01:03]They are doing business, [music] embassy, consulate, mining, truck drivers, >> [music] >> shops, restaurants, to go back in your country. Now, we give you [music] 48 hours.

[00:01:23]As young of Congo, we stand for it.

[00:01:27]Like the way [music] you guys you are not respecting the process diplomatic, [music] you are not a human being. You can't stay with foreigners people and then you you are here [music] a lot.

[00:01:42]You are doing mining, restaurant, hotel.

[00:01:46]You are making money. We are paying visa very expensive.

[00:01:51]And then you you are chasing [music] African people in your country. As young [music] of Congo, Africans young, we don't want you. We give you 48 [music] hours. Consulate, embassy, shops, restaurants, [music] everything, traders, even online. No clothes for South Africa can be in our shops. No food, [music] no whatever.

[00:02:19]Everything we stop it. No business [music] with you people.

[00:02:24]We call you to go back in [music] your country in 48 hours. We give you 48 hours.

[00:02:32]And then you you [music] will see what going to happen.

[00:02:37]We don't want anything [music] here in Congo, all Congo. We don't want anything for [music] South Africa.

[00:02:46]I call all young just that [music] you stand for now. In 48 hours, we need to react fast [music] and fast.

[00:02:56]They are not Africans people, they are not [music] black, they are not to whatever and then they need to go back in their country. [music] Chapo.

[00:03:06]How do I think South Africans have an issue with xenophobia? As a South African who's lived abroad in the US and Europe, yes, but I also think South Africans have an issue with cultural alienation. Let's unpack. I am a South African who moved to the United States in 2018. I experienced a lot of racism, a lot of xenophobia in the US. I was called things like African booty scratcher, all these things. So, when I mentioned these things to South Africans, they feel sympathy for me.

[00:03:39]But then these are the same South Africans who hate the fact that there are other African nationals coming from other African countries and entering, you know, their systems, entering their jobs, taking their jobs, taking their women, raping, crime, all that, right?

[00:03:55]They have sympathy for me, but they also then in the same breath alienate me as well. When I came back to South Africa and I no longer spoke my language Setswana that well, I no longer, you know, sounded South African. My own family was alienating me and pushing me to the side and, you know, basically making fun of me for not sounding South African enough. I am the CEO and founder of Umkhosi AI. I built an AI model so that I could simply learn how to communicate with my grandmother as well as I used to.

[00:04:33]Umkhosi AI is an offline national AI ecosystem that operates without Wi-Fi and data and speaks all official South African languages. What I'm saying is I dedicated my life and dedicated my time and research, four years of research, and to figuring out how to make South Africans' lives better, how to make South African governments better, how to make South African businesses better, how to make sure the grade 4 learner in Limpopo can study even when there's load shedding.

[00:05:03]What does an offline AI model mean for girl like me who's from Hammanskraal?

[00:05:08]What does an offline AI model mean for the Department of Home Affairs? What does an offline AI model look like for people who can afford Wi-Fi and data? I spent my life trying to do this for South Africans and yet if you go to Umkhosi AI's profile, which I'll put down there in the in the bio or in the caption, you will find that there are people in the comments, South Africans in the comments, grilling me, calling me incompetent, um saying that I have no idea what I'm talking about, um saying that in the other videos where South Africans are making fun of my accent, telling me you would see it's not make sure, saying I hear my people but I don't see my people. I think as someone who's been alienated by South Africans, alienated by my own family sometimes, I I remember just scrolling on TikTok and finding a girl who was making a video and showcasing South Africans how she makes her Sunday goals and how she like makes pap and vleis. And South Africans were in the comments talking about how her pap is not make sure. That's when I realized I'm in a Who am Who am I? Haters are going to hate even with pap, guys.

[00:06:16]There's an anger that we as South Africans carry.

[00:06:19]I don't know what it is. There's a There's a level of umboning. There's a level of we know better. There's a level of haha, let's sneer in the comments about someone who's just trying to build a better life for themselves and a better life for their country, right?

[00:06:33]There There's something that we feel a sense of superiority by putting someone down. That's what I mean. We love to put someone down. And if we can do If we can put someone down culturally, that makes South Africa look superior. And that that is a problem. Even South Africans themselves who've left the country, if we can make them feel low, if we can put them down and put ourselves higher because we sound South African, because we speak South African languages better, then we are superior. There's this superiority complex that we really need to fix within our nation. And we need to stop projecting the failures of our government onto other African nationals.

[00:07:10]I'm just praying for the safety of the people who are experiencing xenophobic attacks in South Africa. And I'm also praying for the many South Africans who are abroad and experiencing xenophobia or some form of cultural alienation from their own people when they come back home. That's my piece. Thank you. If you're interested about Umkhosi AI and our mission, please follow our TikTok page below. Thank you. I am ashamed of the South African president. Nelson Mandela is ashamed of you. He's actually rolling in his grave. AFRICAN UNITY IS ASHAMED OF YOU BECAUSE IF ONE AFRICAN IS HUMILIATED ANYWHERE, all Africans should BE OFFENDED EVERYWHERE. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? ARE YOU AWARE THAT AFRICANS ARE being hunted, beaten, humiliated in the streets of South Africa by the same people enjoying freedom that was paid for by continental sacrifice? YOU ARE ALWAYS QUIET. SILENCE MEANS SPONSORSHIP.

[00:07:59]WHERE ARE THE EMERGENCY REFORMS? WHERE ARE THE PROTECTION FOR AFRICAN MIGRANTS?

[00:08:03]WHERE ARE THE ARREST OF XENOPHOBIC ATTACKERS? WHERE IS YOUR LEADERSHIP? WHY IS THE ENERGY ALWAYS STRONGEST WHEN THE TARGET IS ANOTHER AFRICAN? HAVE YOU GUYS FORGOTTEN HOW THE ENTIRE CONTINENT CAME TOGETHER during the period of apartheid AND SUPPORTED YOU GUYS? I just saw a disturbing video of a of a Ghanaian BEING ASKED TO GO BACK TO GHANA. NIGERIAN SHOPS burnt down to ashes by SOUTH AFRICANS. THOSE THUGS.

[00:08:24]BARBARIANS.

[00:08:26]WHERE ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THIS? HAVE YOU GUYS FORGOTTEN HOW GHANAIANS SUPPORTED YOU DURING THE PERIOD OF APARTHEID? FIRST SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRY TO GAIN INDEPENDENCE, 1957.

[00:08:37]KWAME NKRUMAH, HE MADE LIBERATION MOVEMENT A MISSION.

[00:08:42]OPENLY SUPPORTED ANTI-APARTHEID AND ANTI-COLONIAL MOVEMENT ACROSS THE ENTIRE CONTINENT. NIGERIA gained independence 1960, 1st of October.

[00:08:51]Nnamdi Azikiwe, HE OPENLY SUPPORTED A liberation movement, gave political and financial support TO SOUTH AFRICANS.

[00:08:57]NIGERIANS gave money to South AFRICANS IN BUNDLES. NIGERIANS GAVE BUNDLES OF MONEY, BUNDLES, TO SOUTH AFRICANS.

[00:09:04]Scholarship to those in exile, refuge.

[00:09:08]And today THEY ARE BEING KILLED AND BEING BURNT. Their businesses are being burnt down. 1960 TO 1980.

[00:09:14]JULIUS NYERERE OF TANZANIA, HE HOSTED SOUTH AFRICAN FIGHTERS. KENNETH KAUNDA OF ZAMBIA, HE PROVIDED A REFUGE. Léopold Sédar Senghor OF SENEGAL, HE PROVIDED DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT TO SOUTH AFRICA.

[00:09:27]ALGERIA PROVIDED MILITARY TRAINING TO SOUTH AFRICAN FIGHTERS.

[00:09:31]NIGERIA EVEN HAD TO NATIONALIZE THE BRITISH PETROLEUM ASSETS PARTLY OVER APARTHEID-LINKED ERA INTERESTS. And today SOUTH AFRICANS WHEN SOUTH AFRICANS GAINED INDEPENDENCE in 1994, the whole of Africa celebrated like it's our own child graduating. And today we are being kicked YOU CANNOT BE SILENT. DO SOMETHING. ACT.

[00:09:52]AFRICAN Union Organization of African UNITY, ETHIOPIA, ADDIS ABABA, 1963.

[00:09:57]Addis Ababa, organization of African Union. It was BECAUSE OF YOU GUYS, LIBERATION OF AFRICA, MAINLY THE THE END OF APARTHEID.

[00:10:06]THE SOWETO CONVENTION, THE SOWETO UPRISING, 19 76. THE WHOLE OF AFRICA MASS SANG, CRIED FOR YOUR SEPARATION. And today we are being treated poorly in your country.

[00:10:17]You have to do something with our president. Do something. Do something.

[00:10:20]Act now, else we're going to know you're supporting this movement. And we are also going to come together and take measures against South Africans. SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS.

[00:10:29]If you are South African and you live in Congo, this video is for you. Guys, I remember in 1994 our president, the same today, Denis Sassou Nguesso, fight a lot for you guys to make your country free.

[00:10:48]To make that Nelson Mandela be free, to leave the prison.

[00:10:54]I remember that time I was young, maybe 70 years old.

[00:11:01]No, not 70, 7 years old.

[00:11:04]7 years old, yeah.

[00:11:07]I was 7 years old.

[00:11:11]They came in our school to ask about money for you.

[00:11:16]But today you are saying in your country that we have to leave your country to go back in our country to fix our country.

[00:11:22]So my video is for you guys. Now, we need you to leave also our country. I don't know what you are you doing here in Congo. If you are in Brazzaville, in in in Pointe-Noire, in Ouesso, anywhere you are in Congo, this video is for you. You have to leave the Congo. I give you only 48 48 hours to leave our Congo.

[00:11:48]You have to fix everything. If you have a restaurant, society, I don't know. Everything you have in this country, keep it and go back in your country. Go to make your business in your country. In South Africa they they have very too too much money. So what you are doing here?

[00:12:07]What are you doing in our country?

[00:12:10]In South Africa IN SOUTH AFRICA THERE ARE SO many money.

[00:12:15]So you have to go back in your country to make money in your country.

[00:12:21]We give you only eight No, excuse me. We give you We give you only 48 hours to leave our country.

[00:12:33]I don't know what you what you are doing in in in Congo. If you are you are working the embassy, the embassy of of South Africa must close in Congo. We don't need your embassy in our country.

[00:12:46]We don't need you anymore in our country. It's time to leave our country. It's time for you to leave our our Congo. Congo is for is is for us.

[00:12:59]So the same way you are saying in our brother to leave your country is the same way we are talking to you to leave our Congo, too.

[00:13:10]Xenophobia is too much in South Africa.

[00:13:13]So we need to fight for the right of all migrants. They must have right in South Africa. They must be documented with the government. We need to help these migrants because police are taking advantage for the migrants as well as those matching Dudula. They are also taking advantage for the migrants.

[00:13:29]>> I think the attack on immigrants at the moment is also an attempt to make South Africans look away from the things that are standing in the way of delivery of what everybody needs.

[00:13:44]>> Today we are here to remind our hosting countries who's been having mixed feelings but tolerant some extent that Africa we are all going through problems and there are also other issues that to do with pushing pull factors.

[00:13:59]It is actually to express our denouncement of the xenophobic drift in the country.

[00:14:07]There's a right wing populist drift to blame every problem we have on the migrants from the mass unemployment to the crumbling services, health care, education. The fact of the matter is it is outrageous to say that just about 5% of the population are responsible for 12.4 million unemployed people in this country.

[00:14:31]Just so you know, there are a lot a lot of good people in South Africa who are standing against these xenophobic attacks on the African people. Yes, there are loads of them, but the media is not going to show you that.

[00:14:48]Social media is not going to show you that.

[00:14:51]They're always showing you the dark side.

[00:14:54]Also with the uh some of the attacks, you know, when you're living in somewhere illegally, you don't have proper documentations, um it's it's wrong.

[00:15:07]But there should be a better way of dealing with that, which is the immigration and or the authorities. They're supposed to be doing that, not just the citizens attacking people.

[00:15:18]Um uh I think it's the wrong way.

[00:15:21]Uh the on the other hand, it's also wrong to go to somebody's country without proper documentation. It's happening everywhere. It's happening in Europe.

[00:15:30]Europe is facing a lot of these things right now and people are not happy about it.

[00:15:36]Uh it's causing a lot of problems everywhere. But with this South Africa, this video you're watching is people, you know, standing up against xenophobic attacks against foreigners. This is what they're doing. But you will never see this anywhere in the media.

[00:16:03]Which country are you going to go to?

[00:16:04]Okay. Which country do you come from?

[00:16:07]I'm from Congo. Congo?

[00:16:09]What what is the nearest country to Congo? If you're seeking refuge in South Africa because according to foreign policy We are not going to stop. We are not going to turn down the heat. We are going to intensify.

[00:17:26]After you release these people, you can write them their scripts, but they're not going to use our our pharmacy. They must get their >> [snorts]