XENOPHOBIA!...WHAT IF TABLES WERE TO TURN?

My heart is broken, and my mind is restless, while my soul cries in resonance with my heart and mind. But Why? one wonders....just recently a new word was added into my vocabulary, it spells terror and smells of hatred, blood and poverty, the word xenophobia....the word probably invented to describe Hitler's atrocities and hatred over the Jews all stemming from a misguided belief that the reason one is poor is because of the next person from a different ethnic group as yours.....

Today I watched the most gruesome xenophobic attack video I have ever seen in my life.....the second one after the necklacing of Ernesto Nhamuave in 2008.

What could have disturbed me... is it the image of a bruised, tired, defenseless man lying naked helplessly at the messy of his attackers, lifting his hands trying to halt the force of a building block from crushing into his already battered body.....or is it the site of young school children aiding to this senseless attack by throwing rocks at the poor man's groin, spreading his legs apart so that they can get a better aim.....or was it the sound of women in the background cheering and giggling at every throw of these building blocks and rocks at this poor man......or was it the normalcy at which life seemed to go on for the passers by and those around, who laughed as the poor man waits painfully for his death with every blow he probably wished it could be the final one,.....His only crime, being a FOREIGNER ....  How messed up a situation can be!

Something is clearly wrong with this picture, this cant be right....where did we go wrong as South Africans? did we inherit this from apartheid? For how long shall we not take responsibility for our actions?

However, in this confusion of mind, heart and soul  trying to understand what I had just watched one scenario question came out stronger....WHAT IF THE TABLES WERE TO TURN? Unfortunately, we can not go any further south, our only way out will be north....!

They say at some point 15 years after Zimbabwe's independence they would trade P 1 to $ 4 Zim.... and South Africa at 15 years were P 1 to R 12...do the maths

As I type this at this time of the night, I am finding it hard to sleep, I am haunted not by the video but by thoughts of what could become of us as South Africans when our time comes???? WHAT IF THE TABLES WERE TO TURN?