Mozambique is burning.
If you say abahambe but you don’t stand up to those who rig elections in SADC, then you don’t even understand what is causing mass immigration into South Africa.
If you say put South Africa first but fail to condemn Zanu PF and Frelimo then you want to put South Africa last.
We cannot have failing democracy in the region and not have mass immigration. These oppressive regimes in eSwatini, Zimbabwe and Mozambique are the cause of the immigration issue you say you care about.
From day one I have said, South Africa should not support dictatorship in this region. Not only is it against our values, it is against our interests and against our pockets.
Again we cannot be louder about Ukraine and Israel than we are about Sudan, DRC, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. We must be loudest when the lives affected are African lives, when the fire burns down even our home.
If we leave Mozambique to burn, that fire will not stop at Lebombo border. It will not stop this year. We are introducing crisis into this region, into our home.