On a cold afternoon in
July 2010, a group of us met in Newtown to distribute pamphlets around the
Johannesburg CBD and hotspots of the 2008 "xenophobic" attacks, such
as Diepsloot etc. We were only about twelve, so we had to break into groups of
four.
Three people would
distribute flyers and one person would engage people to explain the cause we
were fighting. Our campaign was called "Singamakwerekwere sonke",
meaning "We are all foreigners". Basically, we were protesting
against the deporting and the violence against our Afrikan brothers and
sisters, whom our system calls "foreigners" and our people call
"amakwerekwere". Our group was called SNI. We were young people who wanted
change and we wanted it NOW!
