Facebook was where I started writing. I wrote about sports, I wrote poems and I even wrote short stories as well. My audience back then we're majorly Facebook friends from South Africa, a lot of them advised me to move to SA so that I could get more exposure and potential platforms to express myself since there wasn't much of that in Nigeria. However, they all knew the obstacle, nevertheless, I helped some of them in authoring their anthologies and they acknowledged me in some of their books, but since I couldn't write mine, I decided to do pay-to-write gigs and it was great to get that exposure.
However, this created a flawed impression in me that South Africa was better than Nigeria in every way. I wasn't completely wrong though. The system over there was better, the due process, the organizations, and the platform for expression were there but I didn't know about the xenophobic phenomenon. Although this was partially because in 2013, I didn't think the drugs and the xenophobia were rampant, so I nearly sold all my belongings and tried to get a loan from a family member in other to move over there. The friends I had promised me shelter and all that, some of them even promised to help me set up before I become financially capable of running my life.
But everything fell through when I lost my Dad in 2014, and I resorted to other things in general. Fast-forward to today, some of those friends of mine are now big-time published authors. In 2019, I nearly set out to go again, and sometime later, I met @joetunex here, we became quite close and he began to tell me about the challenges of being in South Africa and how challenging it was for him. For the first time, I got first-hand information on the situation in Africa, the drugs, the hate, the attacks, and all the stylish attempt to drive foreigners away by not giving them work permits or permanent residency.
South Africa seemed to have ticked all the boxes, I had friends already, and the weather gets cold, but not too cold. I was happy I didn't make that choice. @joetunex has been planning to leave South Africa and we've been talking about it for a very long it seemed like a difficult choice that's necessary for him and his future.
It was coy for the South African government not to issue permits anymore, although they blamed it on foreigners doing drugs, this isn't the only reason. I for one. I felt south Africa is a multidimensional economy, its success as one of the most developed African countries was because of the influx of all types of people, races, backgrounds, and foreign ideologies influencing the country from cultivating that black nation mentality.
This mentality is common in 70% of African countries.
Their leaders become power hungry, refusing to relinquish power because they cannot seem to have enough of the resources and wealth, hence they turn democratic systems to totalitarianism, creating the illusion that power needs to remain in the hands for the country to economically flourish.
In reality, South Africa is now a developed nation and I think their government is sick of having immigrants coming from other African countries to seek greener pastures. I mean, I think they feel that foreign domination reduces employment opportunities for their citizens and this is why most of the well-paying jobs would rather go to their full-blooded citizens, no matter how qualified one is.
Although people (foreigners) who can create their own jobs, or have internationally marketable skills would still thrive because the South African system is sophisticated and provides a solid platform for almost anyone. Back in the day, it was a country full of prospects. I know people from Nigeria who went there to study and graduated well, but the way it seems, these people cannot even get the job they deserve because the system is now tilted towards exclusion, for an economy that was built on the premise of foreign influence. It's typical of people, to want to protect a resource if they think it's waning.
The South African government knows its citizens and most of these moves towards inclusion are to empower their citizens, create jobs for them and reduce the rate of unemployment. But some foreigners are still in South Africa despite everything, I mean, they're caught up between the devil and the deep blue sea, unable to economically function due to how financially handicapped they are. Unemployment creates chaotic situations and because of this, some people have now resorted to peddling drugs so they can get rich quickly.
However, it just shows how seriously the South African government deems the impact of foreign domination on their county to be a big issue.
Like I said before, people create a sort of inclusiveness to resources, and when an external prodigy threatens to bask in that honeypot of resources, the next thing is expulsion. It's human nature, some people want the world for themselves because they feel the resources should serve them and only them alone. On a better note, I'm happy for my friend @joetunex, he gets a better shot to try again to compete in his mother's country. I'm glad it's close to home, which means I have the opportunity to see him now.
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