From Apartheid, South Africa which was liberated by other Africans has steadily and consistently descended into a state of 
Zapartheid. If Apartheid was a prerogative of the whites, Zapartheid is a misadventure of the blacks. These were the same people who attracted the sympathy and empathy of other Africans in the brutal days of the white minority supremacists regime of the Apartheid era. The Black South Africans have taken over the hatred of the Boers, but rather than hating back the people and system which brutalised them for hundreds of years peaking for about 42 years between the Aparthied legislation of the Afrikaans National Party of 1948 until 1990 when Frederick de Klerk started dismantling Apartheid, these Zulu warriors and co have turned their hate against other Africans.

They hate Nigerians and Mozambicans, yet these two countries among others worked tiredlessly to free South Africans from the white man’s evil Apartheid. Mozambique lost their President Michal Samora when the Apartheid South African regime bombed his plane on his way home after one of the frontline states meetings on Apartheid. To say that Samora’s widow Graca later married President Mandela and became a first lady in South Africa means nothing to these xenophobics. The story of Nigeria’s fight against Apartheid is a long one. Nigeria spent countless resources to stand with the blacks of South Africa. Though a country in West
Africa, Nigeria joined other South African countries as the only non south African member of the frontline states;against Apartheid.
Nigeria’s late Murtala Mohammed was a harsh critic of Apartheid, General Obasanjo nationalised British Petroleum to protest the support the Bristish Government gave the Apartheid regime in South Africa.

Now as much as the black south Africans fought for their liberation, it may not have been as successful if other African countries did not stand up with them and for them. Many African countries gave the Freedom fighters money, asylum, gave them territories for military training, offices for the ANC and spoke passionately for them in the UN. Today, fellow Africans are hated, robbed, beaten and killed in South Africa by South Africans. The latest incident of some South African Policemen chaining a Mozambican taxi driver behind their vehicle and dragging him through the streets is an affront on our collective as Africans and as humans. The man after sustaining injuries and internal bleeding was found dead not in a hospital but in a prison/police
station.

From Apartheid, South Africa which was liberated by other Africans has steadily and consistently descended into a state of 
Zapartheid. If Apartheid was a prerogative of the whites, Zapartheid is a misadventure of the blacks. These were the same people who attracted the sympathy and empathy of other Africans in the brutal days of the white minority supremacists regime of the Apartheid era. The Black South Africans have taken over the hatred of the Boers, but rather than hating back the people and system which brutalised them for hundreds of years peaking for about 42 years between the Aparthied legislation of the Afrikaans National Party of 1948 until 1990 when Frederick de Klerk started dismantling Apartheid, these Zulu warriors and co have turned their hate against other Africans.

They hate Nigerians and Mozambicans, yet these two countries among others worked tiredlessly to free South Africans from the white man’s evil Apartheid. Mozambique lost their President Michal Samora when the Apartheid South African regime bombed his plane on his way home after one of the frontline states meetings on Apartheid. To say that Samora’s widow Graca later married President Mandela and became a first lady in South Africa means nothing to these xenophobics. The story of Nigeria’s fight against Apartheid is a long one. Nigeria spent countless resources to stand with the blacks of South Africa. Though a country in West
Africa, Nigeria joined other South African countries as the only non south African member of the frontline states;against Apartheid.
Nigeria’s late Murtala Mohammed was a harsh critic of Apartheid, General Obasanjo nationalised British Petroleum to protest the support the Bristish Government gave the Apartheid regime in South Africa.

Now as much as the black south Africans fought for their liberation, it may not have been as successful if other African countries did not stand up with them and for them. Many African countries gave the Freedom fighters money, asylum, gave them territories for military training, offices for the ANC and spoke passionately for them in the UN. Today, fellow Africans are hated, robbed, beaten and killed in South Africa by South Africans. The latest incident of some South African Policemen chaining a Mozambican taxi driver behind their vehicle and dragging him through the streets is an affront on our collective as Africans and as humans. The man after sustaining injuries and internal bleeding was found dead not in a hospital but in a prison/police
station.

The South African transformation from Apartheid to Zapartheid is a shame. If the whites did it because of the difference in the colour of skins, what is the explanation for the blacks doing it on blacks? The South Africans may think they have the best Economy in Africa, they may think they have a big market in Europe, America and Asia, they may think they have nuclear capabilities, they have have the highest GDP in Africa but they should know that they are ingrates and insensitive. They
should be reminded that the African continent was bruised and felt their agony even shared in their wounds, they should be the last set of people to now start stabbing other Africans in their wounds. They should know that what comes around goes around; and many times even if history doesn’t repeat itself people do repeat history. South African
xenophobics should be warned that they are not yet free until all Africans are free.

* Author’s coined word depicting the harmful similar effect but opposite
of Apartheid by perpetrators using the South African domain of .za

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South Africa: From Apartheid to ‘Zapartheid’* – by Samuel Stephen-Wakdok