Comments on: Anti-Chinese Feelings in Lesotho

By: HERBERT

HERBERT — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:17:14 +0000

Mathoba Mabekhla is not alone.
From Nigeria to Columbia,From Spain to Egypt,From Liberia to Newzealand,From Sudan to Brasil the excesses of both the Chinese citizens and its government foreign policy is constituting a grave danger to the socio-economic stability of Nations.
Unfortunately,we live in a world where politicians seldom tell the truth and the civil society on the hand remain adamant to speaking up.It is a hard fact that China is not a force for Stability in all of Africa.
Armed with her economic prowess and military weaponry,the Chinese leaders finds cheap prey in the corrupt African Leaders whose primary aim is to perpetuate Power.China does not mingle in the internal affairs issue of another nation:This has remained her official stance on many burning issues such as Dafur.Where China has continued to provide arms in exchange for oil to the Sudanese government.
What it all means is that China is only interested in what she can get QED.It is very easy to categorise the statement credited to Mathoba as just another of such comments we hear on the streets of France and other Western Nations aimed at immigrants.
All across Africa,right there on African soil,Chinese employers are enslaving local employees,subjecting them to harsh and inhuman working conditions,low wages and sometimes months without payment.Now,Is this an anti-immigration issue?.
Government alone cannot do everything.We must all pull forces together to librate our ourselfs from a life of continues struggle for survival.
First it was the Arabs,then the West and today,it is China.
HOW LONG SHALL IT TAKE US TO GET TO THE PROMISED LAND,OH AFRICANS?

By: HERBERT

HERBERT — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:15:07 +0000

Mathoba Mabekhla is not alone.
From Nigeria to Columbia,From Spain to Egypt,From Liberia to Newzealand,From Sudan to Brasil the excesses of both the Chinese citizens and its government foreign policy is constituting a grave danger to the socio-economic stability of Nations.
Unfortunately,we live in a world where politicians seldom tell the truth and the civil society on the hand remain adamant to speaking up.It is a hard fact that China is not a force for Stability in all of Africa.
Armed with her economic prowess and military weaponry,the Chinese leaders finds cheap prey in the corrupt African Leaders whose primary aim is to perpetuate Power.China does not mingle in the internal affairs issue of another nation:This has remained her official stance on many burning issues such as Dafur.Where China has continued to provide arms in exchange for oil to the Sudanese government.
What it all means is that China is only interested in what she can get QED.It is very easy to conclude the statement credited to Mathoba as just another of such comments we hear on the streets of France and other Western Nations aimed at immigrants.
All across Africa,right there on African soil,Chinese employers are enslaving local employees,subjecting them to harsh and inhuman working conditions,low wages and sometimes months without payment.Now,Is this an anti-immigration issue?.
Government alone cannot do everything.We must all pull forces together to librate our ourselfs from a life of continues struggle for survival.
First it was the Arabs,then the West and today,it is China.
HOW LONG SHALL IT TAKE US TO GET TO THE PROMISED LAND,OH AFRICANS?

By: Changeseeker

Changeseeker — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:14:10 +0000

I’m thinking along the same lines as Acolyte, Rethabile. What I hear in the quote from the woman who has been put out of business is not that she has a problem with Chinese people per se, but that she resents the practice of the Chinese being allowed to undercut her so that her economic well-being has been so greatly reduced. This is not just happening in Lesotho. Friends from Central American have told me that Chinese “entrepeneurs” appear literally overnight in vacant lots, set up a “store” in a small trailer of some kind with a bare lightbulb hung at the end of a cord, and sell low quality products so cheaply that others can’t compete. The resultant group dynamics has much more to do with run-amok multi-national capitalism than with immigrant status. Now that I see this is happening in Africa, too, I’m going to be vigilantly attention for what the greater implications of this practice are going to be.

By: acolyte

acolyte — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:57:07 +0000

Lets look at it from this angle, the local either has to make their own product and will be taxed heavily by the government while on the other hand due to low import tax foisted on the government the Chinese can import cheap products and sell them at half the price.
Much as people love their country they shall go with their pockets and as a result of them not buying local there will be a knock on effect and jobs will be lost.
Governments need to work so that local products are more affordable and this turns into more jobs and business and at the same time put hefty taxes on imported things that are sold cheaper at home, only then can the Chinese tsunami be stopped.

By: rawdawgbuffalo

rawdawgbuffalo — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:45:22 +0000

happy to have stumbled here. I lived in Nigeria for 16 months (oweri) when i was doing m first post doc…i had a ball chk me out one day, this is a examle THANK WE FREE