Who benefits from Spreading Hate, Dear South Africans?

I have spent years travelling across South Africa with my kids ,dogs ..It is often deep rural and disadvantaged areas with no place to stay booked beforehand .No place to cook food and eat ..I am an Indian who has barely learnt to speak the spoken language .But love I recognised ,everywhere

I have listened to women,old men and our youth who are rarely invited into television studios, corporate boardrooms.They have never left the province to go to Parliament or seen the union headquarters even ..

They just believe a good education can change their lives and stop them from going to bed hungry .What I heard is remarkably same everywhere .

Not a single one is asking for someone to hate.

They are asking for a fair chance.

They are asking for land they can farm.

Capital they can borrow Not from loan sharks or bank accounts, which they dont have ..Not by choice either ..

The youth and young adults wish for Businesses they can build..They have proper plans,they need guidance .

Running Schools that prepare their children for universitity ,jobs,entrepreneurship. .And not ve turned away from admission due to poverty .

Municipalities that function..Where water and electricity is available in homes ,hospitals and places of learning.

A state they can trust.

An economy that includes and listens to them.

That is their birthright..What their ancestors fought for .What they wished achieved after end of apartheid .

And that is why I reject the growing weaponisation of immigration as the defining story of South Africa’s crisis.

Migration is real..We all are migrants from somewhere .Or our ancestors did ..We love the countries we grew our kids in .Staying 20/30 years in a place , building it with our labor,we dont have any connect with the soil we came from .We have no shared hardships,no growth stories there .

Government’s failure to manage Illegal migration is real..In every country around the world .

But it is not the cause of our structural inequality.

It is not the cause of concentrated ownership.

It is not the cause of corruption.

It is not the cause of our high youth unemployment.

It is not the cause of an economy that continues to exclude millions of South Africans from ownership and opportunity.

When migration is turned into the explanation for everything, it becomes something more than a policy debate.

It becomes a political instrument.

And every South African should ask:

WHO BENEFITS?