Motsoko Pheko

When what many call ‘xenophobia’ erupted in South Africa in May 2008, I made the following motion in the South African Parliament as a Member:

On 12 February 2015 President Jacob Zuma announced that his ANC government would soon be tabling the Regulation of Land Holdings Bill, which will limit land ownership by South Africans to 1200 acres and will no longer allow foreigners to own land in South Africa.

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[Recently the Institute For Security Studies And The Nelson Mandela Foundation invited me to a colloquium discussing ‘WHERE IS OPEN DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY?’ This colloquium was held in Cape Town on 4 November 2014. Unfortunately I already had a pressing prior engagement.

History reveals that Britain (the United Kingdom) has never protected indigenous or non-British interests – whether in Africa, Australia, India, New Zealand and so on.

[This Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe memorial lecture was delivered at the Methodist Black Consultation Springs Gauteng, South Africa, 12 July 2014.">

“New South Africa” boasts of being a “democracy.” Indeed, in some areas that are not fundamental to democracy such as homosexual marriages, “sex workers,” “abortion on demand,” and an education system that allows a pass mark of 30 percent; this “democracy” is excelling.

On the eve of an historic event in South Africa which exploded the myth that Africans would remain slaves of apartheid colonialism forever, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, the founding president of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), despatched three members of his PAC National Executive Coun

It is what African leaders do now and daily which will determine the place of Africa in the next fifty years.

Britain had in 1913 allocated five million African people 7% of their own land against 93% to its 349,837 colonial European settlers.