Africans have come out to boycott South Africa after days of looting and violence targeting foreigners in which five people died. Well, Wife of rapper Sarkodie, Tracy has taken to her Twitter page to narrate the ordeals she went through when she was in South Africa.
She tweeted; ” Thread: 1. I was in SA this year in March for 4 weeks and I never felt safe. I realised that whenever a black South African made me out not to be one of them, they would treat me differently & sometimes ask where I’m from. I remember one driver asking that same question… “ 2. … & when I told him I was from Ghana, he told me I don’t look a Ghanaian/West African because I wasn’t very dark!! And said your ppl are very dark ehh…I was so upset but I was also very scared because the way he was looking at me I actually thought he might want rape me
3. My point is this xenophobia thing is real in SA but it’s deeply rooted in the apartheid culture. To be honest, it still feels like apartheid there where the Black South Africans are very much afraid of the whites. 4. I don’t know what the solution is but I think it has to start with the re-education of Black South Africans
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I think you do make a valid point. The "succeed at all cost" mentality has always been the issue. This propels people to break rules, commit crimes and destroy order. And to you Tracy, do you say any one who stares at your beauty in Ghana makes you feel very scared and might be rape? Stop the obnoxious generalisation.
don't they have a black president and he cannot think?
Oh Tracy you and your husband de3 nonfa nkoaa. Generalizing South Africans based on one experience is very unfair. Many Ghanaians and non-south Africans have lived and worked in southern Africa for years (as far back as the 70s and 80s). South Africans are generally very good people, warm and very friendly (beautiful women too). The problem is that a some people from a particular country in west Africa, migrate to other countries and they take their "succeed at all cost" mentality there. Some of them engage in illegal activities and try to dominate the locals (the same thing they have used to destroy their beautiful country). In Ghanaians are generally timid and will look on unconcerned while they take over our communities but the South Africans are fighters and won't allow it. One Africa? Yes, but just obey the rules and don't think you are smarter than everybody.