30/05/2026
BEFORE YOU CALL THEM YOUR BROTHERS AND/OR SISTERS YOU MUST KNOW HOW WE WERE TREATED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES!
Africa has 54 sovereign states, but only 3 countries hosted South Africans for an agreed period of time and it was all based on preconditions and restrictions:
- Angola 🇦🇴
- Tanzania 🇹🇿
- Zambia 🇿🇲
Above were the countries that hosted South Africans with a clear understanding that, after sometime, they will go back to South Africa.
Mozambique 🇲🇿, Lesotho 🇱🇸, Botswana 🇧🇼, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and Swaziland 🇸🇿 were transit countries.
Ethiopia 🇪🇹, Egypt 🇪🇬 and Algeria 🇩🇿offered training camps for a selective period and soon after, South Africans had to return to the 3 host countries.
Very few countries were in solidarity support, but never in financial support.
BARE FACTS:
1. Countries like Kenya 🇰🇪 and Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 used to deport any South African found in their country back to apartheid South Africa for possible death 💀
2. It is quite interesting to acknowledge that the liberation movement was once expelled by host nations, and it was then that Cde Kebby Maphatsoe lost his arm in Angola 🇦🇴
3. The liberation movement was also expelled from Mozambique 🇲🇿, Swaziland 🇸🇿, Lesotho 🇱🇸 and Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
4. Botswana 🇧🇼 didn’t even bother to host South Africans
5. While living in those host countries, South Africans were living in camps and they were not allowed to mix with the local people from those countries
6. They had to lease land to grow their own food
7. They had to build a school and a hospital which were fully funded by countries in Europe that were against Apartheid
8. Freedom of movement was at a minimum
9. Every South African had to leave the camp which was once every fortnight
10. They had to have a permit which only allowed them to leave the camp for only one hour
11. If they came back past the given time, they would be arrested by the soldiers who were stationed at the entrance of the camp
12. More importantly, there has never been a South African that worked in any country in Africa during that time
13. Living conditions were not good; Malaria, AIDS and other diseases killed South Africans as those diseases were very foreign and were non-existent in South Africa
MORE FACTS:
1. In March 1980, PAC members protested in Tanzania about the living conditions and soon after, 17 PAC members were gunned down for protesting in a foreign country by the FFU Unit. This was a clear reminder that you don’t protest in a foreign country.
2. South Africans were very much aware that they were in those countries temporarily and they couldn't wait to return home
3. In 1977, the group of Tsietsi Mashinini that was made up of only 20 students was deployed from Somafco, Tanzania, to go study in Nigeria, and while they were there, they were welcomed with so much resistance. Nigerian 🇳🇬 students protested claiming South Africans are there to take their jobs and women
4. Not too long after that protest, in just 2 months, one comrade by the name of Joel, was poured with acid on his face. Not too long he died, and it was then that the group had to be recalled back to Somafco
5. Tsietsi Mashinini and Mvuyo, Mbuyiseni Makhubu leaders of 1976 Soweto Uprising dissapeared without a trace at University of Ibadan, Nigeria 🇳🇬
Angeke sikhohlwe!
Re ka se lebale!
Sehle silibale!
Lest we forget!
🤞🏽
Article by Gloria Ogle and I concur.
