South Africa: Lest We Forget... Africa's Hospitality Liberated South Africa

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THE recent xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa brought into focus the role African countries played in South Africa's liberation. Some of the sentiments of our people got me worried and thinking just how little many South Africans know about the role the countries of these people we now have little regard for played in our liberation. It is sad when our generation seems to forget so quickly.

The story is not very complicated. In order to defeat apartheid, the liberation movement needed the help of other countries to put pressure on South Africa to change and be a place of refuge for many freedom fighters who chose to go and fight from outside. This meant that we were guests of many countries, the same way that foreigners have found a place of refuge in South Africa.

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