Heed the danger signs
With Durban authorities clamping down on stowaways and other hordes of undocumented aliens pouring through South Africa's porous harbour control entry points in search of the reputed good life available here, the focus of settlement for these foreign Africans has increasingly become the wooded area around Richards Bay.
For years there have been colonies here of Tanzanians, Ugandans, Rwandans, Burundians, Congolese and Sudanese to name but a few of the countries represented.
The problems these settlements pose have been explained in great detail in our news columns over the years, usually when the residents are suspected of involvement in all types of crime.
There is a clear lack of co-operation between the various state and municipal authorities tasked to deal with these unfortunate people.
The first task of the State is to guarantee, in all respects, the well-being and security of South African citizens.
Try illegally entering any EU nation or the UK or the USA.
The SA Police Services have the unenviable task of tracking down traceless, undocumented suspects with no fingerprints at hand.
The health services are at their wits' end to identify and eliminate all sorts of alien diseases brought into South Africa by such stowaways who jump ship here in Zululand.
The scourge of tracking down who exactly in Home Affairs takes money from these souls and then issues them with useless but beautifully stamped and signed papers, will now erupt on our doorstep.
South Africa is simply emotionally and physically unprepared to deal with illegal foreigners and our grass roots response has been to burn their homes, to slaughter them and to drive them out.
At higher state levels there have been poetic expressions of ineffable sadness at their cruel fate, but who - in which state department - has even suggested a national debate on the growing issue?
Does Richards Bay need the national disgrace of another rash of fatal xenophobic riots just a few hundred days before the general elections?
It may just happen as jobs vanish, homes are not forthcoming and potable water slows to a trickle.
Operasie Glimlag
Ons is hier in Zoeloeland werklik bevoorreg dat ons oor die soort mense beskik op wie se spreekwoordelike knoppie altyd gedruk kan word.
Onlangs was dit weer die poging van die Empangeni Tafelronde wat meer as
R330 000 ten behoewe van operasies vir kinders wat met geboortedefekte gebore is.
Sulke sjirurgie is uiters duur en in die meeste, mens kan byna sê, alle gevalle, sou dit nie vir hierdie kinders moontlik gewees het om deur middel van hulle eie gesinne soiets te kon regkry nie.
'Operasie Glimlag' maak dit moontlik dat sulke kinders letterlik weer kan glimlag.
Veral die filmskote oor die veranderings wat die operasies teweegebring het by die kinders, was opspraakwekkend.
Zoeloelanders is mense met oop harte.
In baie gevalle het hulle ook groot beursies waarvan hulle die inhoud daarvan na deeglike oorweging met minder bevoorregtes kan deel. Mens dink hier aan ons eie liefdadigheidsorganisasie DICE (Do I Care Enough?) sowel as die van die ander liefdadigheidsorganisasies in die streek waarsonder ons nie sou kon klaarkom nie.
Ook die groot maatskappy stel nou al baie jare inspirerende voorbeelde aan die sakewêreld van hoe liefdadigheid nou eintlik bedryf moet word.
Ons ondersteun Operasaie Glimlag baie beslis met 'n breë glimlag!
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