PRITHEE… WHICH SECTION OF THE CONSTITUTION SAYS BORDERS MUST BE OPEN?

I am writing this opinion piece to ask all and sundry, especially Thabo Mbeki, Cyril Ramaphosa and Julius Malema to tell me as to which section of the South African Constitution says our country’s borders must be open so that foreigners may illegally come in and go out as they please.

I am directing this question to the aforesaid trio because they are adherents of the debilitating situation whereby foreigners are doing as they wish in this country.

To them I am further asking this question:

At which conference, meeting or gathering of your respective parties was the decision to allow illegal foreigners to come into this country willy-nilly taken?

Please produce the minutes of such a meeting, gathering or conference!

Failure to produce such minutes will be proof that you as a trio are publicly expressing personal sentiments which you wrongfully want to be accepted as policy statements of your respective political parties or that of the country.

I am a patient person and I will therefore wait for your response in this regard, and I therefore give you the latitude to take your time and respond at your earliest convenience.

But for now I am declaring you Constitutional delinquents because your statements calling for foreigners to come into this country illegally are not based on any section of the country’s Constitution or that of your own respective party’s constitutions.

You are acting like rogue elements and dictators who opine that your whims and wishes must automatically become law.

You are taking the people of this country and the Constitution of South Africa for granted.

You think your word is the law.

Do you still remember as to how many people died in South Africa during the days of apartheid while fighting against the use of cheap labour which is today offered to employers by foreigners?

Have the families of these deceased people been adequately recognised and compensated?

Today as a trio you respectively own buffaloes, you read old, outdated books of philosophy, and you wear designer clothes because of the efforts of the gallant, real freedom fighters and not peace-time heroes that you resemble today.

Let me point out that I am using the archaic interjection “prithee” in my headline as a polite but firm request for you to respond, either individually or as a troika.

I rest my case!