JONATHAN JANSEN | Travel bans against SA are about racism and nothing else

  • 📰 TimesLIVE
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 23 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 12%
  • Publisher: 59%

South Africa Headlines News

Instead of helping ‘wretched’ Africa, the world has shut it out, something it hasn’t done to rich countries

If you had any lingering doubts about the unbroken link between racism and disease, then events of the past week should have opened your eyes. No sooner had South African scientists announced the discovery of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant on November 24, but the West reacted with a fierceness that would have embarrassed its colonial progenitors, from Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad to the streams of imperial missionaries and scientists sent to save and civilise the Dark Continent.

Instantly, flights from SA to the UK and, soon after, the US, were banned. This despite the variant also being found in Belgium and Hong Kong, and that little was known at the time about “the South African variant”, as some idiots on overseas television parroted their politicians. “South African countries”, said another geographic illiterate on NBC news in reference to the shutting off and shutting out of countries in the region.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

The problem is that African countries like handouts hence they shall always be oppressed. If they didn't they would have seen this as an opportunity to reflect on themselves and improve investment on Africa-Africa trades

To all those Bitcoiner’s working from home Bitcoin trading options Here's a little tip: Get a trusted Bitcoin expert and stick with her lisamiaBTC Invest and play at similar times each day. Because : In times of chaos, your investment is your anchor to success.

It's no surprise that African leaders are behaving like they won the lottery

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 28. in ZA

South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

JONATHAN JANSEN | Travel bans against SA are about racism and nothing elseInstead of helping ‘wretched’ Africa, the world has shut it out, something it hasn’t done to rich countries The west is busy with Russia and China You just know that when a commentator ascribes something to 'pure racism ', it means he hasn't done his research. We are on our own. No one owes us anything. The soonest everyone realizes that maybe the continent can move forward
Source: SundayTimesZA - 🏆 47. / 51 Read more »

Tourism industry turns its attention to local visitorsSeaside towns and other tourist attractions in SA lost more than R1bn in travel bookings for travel between December and March as a result of travel bans instituted globally against SA
Source: TimesLIVE - 🏆 28. / 59 Read more »

Omicron in 23 countries: WHO slams those who penalised SATravel ban also hampered research and lacked any logic, say experts
Source: SowetanLIVE - 🏆 13. / 63 Read more »

Travel bans will cause long-term devastation across Africa, Ramaphosa warnsCovid-19 travel bans will cause long-term damage to national economies across Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on his visit to Nigeria on Wednesday.
Source: SowetanLIVE - 🏆 13. / 63 Read more »

Ramaphosa berates African states for joining travel bans over Omicron variantPresident says SA should be praised not punished for the fast discovery of the Covid-19 variant as peers react ‘like our former colonisers’
Source: BDliveSA - 🏆 12. / 63 Read more »

Travel bans will cause long-term devastation across Africa, Ramaphosa warnsCovid-19 travel bans will cause long-term damage to national economies across Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on his visit to Nigeria on Wednesday.
Source: TimesLIVE - 🏆 28. / 59 Read more »