Reggy 🌍🇿🇦 @ReginaldSebati

Swita teka nkari mara ku fika hita fika 🙏Kaizer Chiefs✌️⚽️ Roodepoort, South Africa Joined May 2012

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Two suspected illegal miners were killed during a shootout with police in Roodepoort on Tuesday. ebx.sh/pkxgaJ

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So, the major news today is that the African Union is set to debate xenophobia and Afrophobia in South Africa. I have noticed that many people on my timeline have been asking the same question; why is the African Union discussing this issue, yet it does not debate disputed elections and political violence in countries such as Zimbabwe and Mozambique, even though those crises are major drivers of migration across the region? The answer is straightforward. The African Union is an organisation of member states, and it debates issues that member states place before it. In this case, Ghana and Nigeria have requested that the issue of xenophobia and Afrophobia in South Africa be discussed. They have taken the lead, although there are other countries, including some in Southern Africa, that quietly support this initiative but are reluctant to say so publicly, particularly because they rely on the South African government, and the African National Congress, for diplomatic support on their own regional and international issues. Ironically, what Ghana and Nigeria are doing now is exactly what South Africa could have done over the years regarding disputed elections and political violence in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Had South Africa taken the lead in raising those issues within the African Union, there would likely have been far greater regional pressure to address the governance failures that contribute to migration and instability. Instead, successive South African governments have generally pursued a policy of quiet diplomacy towards governments in the region. Critics argue that this approach has shielded governments accused of electoral irregularities and political violence from sustained scrutiny within regional institutions. As a result, Zimbabwe and Mozambique have rarely become the subject of robust debate at the African Union. South Africa is now the subject of debate because member states, led by Ghana and Nigeria, have formally raised concerns. By contrast, when elections have been disputed or political violence has occurred in Zimbabwe or Mozambique, South Africa has not championed those issues before the African Union with the same determination. Without influential member states pushing those matters onto the agenda, they receive far less attention. This is not without precedent. In 2008, former Ghanaian President John Kufuor publicly expressed concern about Zimbabwe’s disputed elections and the violence that followed. At the same time, then South African President Thabo Mbeki maintained his policy of quiet diplomacy and repeatedly argued that there was no crisis in Zimbabwe. That historical contrast helps explain today’s situation. The African Union can only act on issues that its member states are prepared to bring forward and advocate for. In this case, Ghana and Nigeria have chosen to do so on xenophobia and Afrophobia in South Africa. The absence of similar pressure from South Africa on Zimbabwe and Mozambique goes a long way towards explaining why those issues have not received the same level of attention within the African Union. In other words, Ghana and Nigeria have demonstrated that it is in their national interests to take the issue of xenophobia and Afrophobia in South Africa to the African Union. By contrast, the South African government has, for decades, shown that it does not consider it to be in South Africa’s interests to take disputed elections in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and the violence that often follows, to the African Union. Yet, in reality, it is in South Africa’s national interest for these issues to be debated by the African Union and for lasting regional solutions to be found so that they do not keep recurring. We all know why this has happened. Individual African National Congress leaders have too often placed the interests of their political party ahead of the broader national interests of South Africa.