Dear Mr President.
Dear Mr President, I write to you humbly, as a Pan Africanist, one pregnant with hope that one day soon, Africa will be one. I feel comfortable writing to you because I know that you yourself are a Pan Africanist whose burning desire is to see a united and prosperous Africa. To state the obvious, Mr President, millions of your countrymen have made their way across the border into South Africa, the region's economic power. This would be nice if the mobility was voluntary but, as we all know, it isn’t. They have run from persecution, from hunger, from joblessness, from a government – yours, sir, that will not hesitate to apply force to quash opponents. Your (in)actions have many, far-reaching consequences, Mr President. One such consequence is that a Pan Africanist political party like the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)now stands accused of protecting (il)legal African immigrants who are not wanted in South Africa. While you are oppressing and suffocating your own people, send...