The Vice President/West Africa of the All Africa Students’ Union (AASU) wish to condemn the unjustifiable killings of African Nationals in South Africa and outrightly recommend sanctions against the Republic of South Africa Students by the Executive Committee of AASU.
Distinguished members of the Press, students across the African continent, fighters in the people’s liberation struggle, our fellow Africans struggling for life in South Africa, cadres and militants, conscious comrades, we bring you greetings from the ALL AFRICA STUDENT UNION (AASU)
As part of our revolutionary mandate as a radical and Pan African students’ movement representing the dreams and aspiration of the African students on the continent, we want to categorically condemn the barbaric Xenophobic killings of our African brothers on the soil of South Africa. We believed that such a brutality and cruelty meted against our black brothers contravenes the essence of the Pan African struggle and African Unity against those very neo-colonial imperialist forces that held down the development of our continent.
The unabating burning and mindless looting of fellow African businesses and properties by the South Africans is bizarre and inhumane and must be rebuked by all and sundry on the African continent.
Unbelievably, in the midst and faces of former slave masters currently in South Africa, treating fellow Africans in such a demeaning manner and form without any remorse placed citizens of South Africa on the dark edges of history, thereby discrediting every revolutionary credentials bestowed upon their struggle for apartheid.
RECOMMENDATIONS
As Vice President for WEST AFRICA/AASU, without fear and favor, I do hereby recommend to the Executive Committee of AASU that the following are hereby recommended as sanctions:
That the SOUTH AFRICA STUDENTS ASSOCIAION BE SUSPENDED FROM THE ALL AFRICA STUDENT UNION FOR TIME INDEFINITE.
THAT NO SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENT PARTAKE IN ANY OF AASU’S ACTIVITY pending the return of normalcy in South Africa.
THAT THE AASU DECLARE SOUTH AFRICA AS A DARK ZONE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS.
THAT THE AASU DECLARE THE CURENT PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, PRESIDENT CYRILL RAMAPOSA AS A REACTIONARY CAPITALIST AND SHALL NEVER be recognised by AASU for such a time that Xenophobic attack on Africans remain.
The office of the Vice President for West Africa of AASU wishes to also remind the masses of our people on the continent that during the Apartheid struggle, we knew how South Africans were banished from their own soil into exile and were welcomed by other African nationals in various countries with provision of shelter, food, education and scholarships and sustainable means of livelihood in peace and harmony.
Several millions of dollars were mobilized by Africans all over the world to help the South Africans during their struggle.
How come today these same South Africans have forgotten all of those sacrifices?
Have they forgotten so soon that it was the conglomeration of courageous, fearless and conscious black brothers across the African landscape who stood by them and shouted to the high heavens during the reign of terror in South Africa?
From the inception of this provocative attacks, there have been rumors or allegations hovering around that those blacks undergoing such barbarity were drug dealers/peddlers. However, uncoordinated statements emanating from the South African authorities proved ironical to the facts available.
But again, let’s agree for the sake of argument that these blacks were drug dealers, why didn’t the South African Authorities amicably deal with such a situation within the ambit of the law instead of allowing heartless south African resort to mass killings and molestation?
Nigeria:
It is documented in the annals of human history that the blood and sweat of Nigerian soldiers are saturated in the lifespan of many African nations. Where there are chaos, hunger, war and diseases, the government and people of Nigeria has always been there for its counterparts on all fronts, ensuring peace and tranquility on the continent.
Dedicated men and women from Nigeria have sacrificed and died in helping other Africa nations during troubling times. We, too, must treat them as humans, with respect and dignity. We should work together as one people on a united front with one goal and purpose.
As Vice President of the all Africa Student Union for West Africa, I stand in solidarity with the government and good people of Nigeria and hereby support all actions by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) which is the umbrella organization for all students of Nigeria home and in Diaspora unarguably the largest body of students on the continent of Africa.
Comr. Danielson Akpan, the President of NANS who has led this continental struggle is no doubt a global hero, and we all commend his doggedness in championing this struggle.
NANS having played a pivotal role in the pursuit of peaceful co-existence amongst Africans deserves our solidarity and as such we see the attack on Nigerian citizens as barbaric and must at all times be condemning Xenophobia in the strongest possible term.
It’s frustrating as one of the largest continent in the world that we are still divided at this time. We should be sober and reflect on struggles for independence of Africa a d the underdevelopment that colonialism did to our continent and people.
As a mass based revolutionary movement in Africa, we see Xenophobic action as contrary to the teaching of our African doctrine that spoke about African Unity. Never must we bow down to the teaching and understanding of the West that have inflicted and continue to inflict western casualty on our fellow Africans. As Vice President of this union in West Africa, we must remember the teaching of our African leaders who have fought so hard for unity of all African to live in harmony.
SOUTH AFRICA/ ANC
For South Africans, under the government of the ANC, to seeing other Africans gruesomely murdered especially Nigerians, it means that the gods must be mad. Such an anti Pan Africanist action is monumentally enough to place the ANC in the fifth quadrant of a high quo reactionary cult. Had the ANC- South African government really intended to curb such a barbaric act, it would have carried out a thorough arrest and prosecute those caught in such an unholy act so as to serve as a deterrence or caveat to those ingrates carrying on such an act. But when the wholesale looting and burning down of other blacks’ businesses and properties started initially, the very ANC regime gave it a blind eye. The Nigerian government then reach out to the South African government diplomatically so as to put an end to such barbarism but again, the South African never give the diplomatic process a fair play.
By this narcissist action, by a group of people who were once victim of brutality and barbarism, clearly positioned them into their aggressors and posture of their slave’s masters. As the entire black race and the whole of Africa struggled against their oppression yesterday and fight for their liberation, the entire human kind must resist and struggle against their actions today while currently acting like cannibals and oppressors.
Conclusively, we want to extent our revolutionary salutations to comrade CIC Julius Malenma for his uncompromising and fiery condemnations and agitations against the brutal killings of Nigerians and other foreign nationals. We thank all other nationals for their stance against this barbarism. We resoundingly call on SADAC to take a firm decision in order to rescue the macabre of killings in South Africa especially foreign nationals.
Varney Alieu Jarsey
Vice President/ WA/AASU
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