By Mark T Jones

The article tells us more about South Africa than it does of the plight of Somalis and others from the Horn of Africa who have endeavoured to seek refuge in South Africa.

No mention whatsoever of the economic migrants from Mozambique, Zambia and those fleeing Robert Mugabe's tyranny who are routinely persecuted and sometimes killed by "locals".

I was alarmed to see a slavish pandering to stereotypes about people hailing from the Horn of Africa.

The vast majority of Somalis and their neighbors are victims not perpetrators of conflict.

If Fuzile really wanted to make a story maybe he should have asked South Africa's Department of International Affairs why it has yet to make any effort at all to resolve the conflict in Somalia.

Maybe President Jacob Zuma should be heading to Mogadishu rather than making repeated fruitless journeys to Tripoli.

Mark T Jones, founder and CEO of Anglo Somaliland International, London: "SA imports 'silent war'" (June 7) by Bongani Fuzile certainly made for disturbing reading - and was an opportunity sadly missed.

Source: Times Live

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