South African politician and Pan-Africanist, Julius Malema has extended a warm invitation to Ghanaians to visit South Africa.
As per Malema, the unification of the continent is an inevitable phenomenon hence African countries should actively pursue a borderless society to improve the free flow of people on the continent.
Speaking at an event organised by the Arise Ghana Youth movement at the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, Accra, on Pan-Africanism and the economic emancipation of Africans, he stated that the people of Ghana are no different from South Africans thus both nationals should feel at ease when in the other’s country.
“The unity of this continent is going to come and when we call on each other to come into each other’s countries, we must embrace that with ease. Being here in Ghana I don’t feel like I’m in a different country because in this hall there is nothing different I’m not used to in South Africa.
“When I look at left or right I see my brothers and sisters. When I walk outside and drive all over I see the poverty of Africa that I see at home. So why will I claim I’m in a different home because conditions are the same? So when I’m here, I’m at home, when you’re in South Africa feel at home,” he said.
He further dispelled the notion that South Africans are xenophobic.
Buttressing his point, Malema argued that South Africans are peace-loving people.
This is despite scattered incidents of xenophobic attacks in South Africa often targeting other African nationals in their shanty towns.
“South Africans are not xenophobic. South Africans are peace-loving people and I extend my invitation to all of you to come and study in South Africa, to come and work in South Africa, to come and take your holidays in South Africa because it is your home too. The same way you welcomed us here, we’ll welcome you in South Africa,” he said.
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