Dear Black Middle Class I Am sorry Ntsiki Mazwai disappointed you
If I may ask, as you gloss over your decorated refrigerator, sip on your wine and browse Netflix and DSTV, have you sat and wondered what your fellow black brothers and sisters in the township, rural areas and informal settlements will eat during this lockdown?
In the comfort of your smart phones and laptops you share messages reminding us that we should stay indoors, wash our hands and use sanitisers. Do you know those are luxuries to millions of black people who currently don't have food, water or toilets and can't even afford soap or sanitisers?
Dear Middle Class, please tell me, when did you stop being black? When did you become so selfish, inward and individualistic?
You are confused on why, unlike you, poor black people can't stay at home and obey the law. You simply can't comprehend why they can't drink alcohol at home when you are drinking your whisky and Wine in your own beautiful garden.
You are irritated that they will bring the virus to your gated communities and infect you, your families and children.
You are just driven by the law of survival
Hence you have advocated for the police to beat up and arrest these black delinquents who simply refuse to listen.
Just to remind you, more than 1 Million South Africans go to bed hungry on a daily basis and live from hand to mouth. So being trapped indoors is a threat to their own survival.
Have you thought of children who will be forced to stay indoors and watch their mothers being beaten up over and over again in their 1 room shacks over this period?
Have your thought of what this lockdown means to black men who stand by the streets looking for work and use their mediocre payments to feed their families?
What about your domestic workers, did you pay them living wages to stay indoors during this period?
What about families who are forced to cramp in the same makeshift shacks, 1 room, RDP houses with no idea where their next meal is going to come from or how they will manage to cohabit during this lockdown?
Ntsiki Mazwai, Unlike you, didn't advocate for the police to beat up and arrest our fellow black brothers and sisters. She went over and beyond her own comfort to lament on the livid experiences of our people in the township and informal settlements who are surrounded by poverty, squalor and degradation.
She became a voice for the voiceless since the is no single political party advocating for the rights and dignity of the poor during this extraordinary time in our history and all leaders of opposition parties in their estates and gated communities protected by luxury just reminding our people to stay indoors and wash their hands.
Ntsiki Mazwai simply put herself in the shoes of those whose lives are characterised by poverty, squalor and degradation
She simply became black, human and Conscious.
So according to you Ntsikie Mazwai should not speak out for the vulnerable and poor Indigenous Afrika people because according to you she "does not offer the alternative"? get out here this platform is not for expressing your white supremacist attittude and hate against BLACKs