🔥 MAKHADZI SPEAKS OUT AFTER VENDA MAN ALLEGEDLY QUESTIONED FOR NOT SPEAKING ZULU, WARNS THAT SOUTH AFRICANS MUST NOT BE JUDGED BY LANGUAGE OR WHERE THEY COME FROM 🔥
Popular singer Makhadzi has weighed in on the growing debate around language, identity and nationality after a video circulated online showing a Venda-speaking man allegedly being questioned after struggling to speak Zulu.
Makhadzi said she moved to Gauteng years ago and eventually learned some Zulu because it helped her communicate, but stressed that speaking a particular language should never be treated as a requirement for being accepted in South Africa.
The award-winning artist expressed concern that South Africans from provinces such as Limpopo could be unfairly judged simply because they speak different languages. She argued that people should not be harassed or made to feel unwelcome because they are unable to speak Zulu fluently.
Her comments have sparked a heated debate online, with some agreeing that South Africa’s diversity should be respected, while others insist that language is often used as a way to identify where someone comes from.
Many social media users have called for unity, saying that all South Africans, whether they speak Venda, Zulu, Xhosa, Tsonga, Sotho, Afrikaans or any other language, should feel safe and respected anywhere in the country.
🇿🇦 Do you agree with Makhadzi that no South African should be judged or questioned simply because they cannot speak a particular language? Share your views below. 👇🔥💬
South Africans seem to specialise in black on black violence. The attacks on foreigners won’t be the last shot. It is just the beginning.
Once the foreigners, who are regarded as the common enemy, have been dealt with, the violence will turn on the inside. The Zulu will regard the Venda and Xhosa as foreigners in Zulu land. Similarly, the Xhosa will turn on the Zulu in Xhosa land.
We saw this at play towards the end of the apartheid era when Inkhata Freedom Party of the Zulus fought the ANC. Inkhata under Mangosuthu Buthelezi was sponsored by the apartheid regime. It took the wisdom of Nelson Mandela to bring peace and sanity to South Africa.
Such is the nature if bigotry. It has a way of consuming the perpetrators in its wake.