By Discent Bajila|If African leaders dealt decisively with the issue of unemployment, XENOPHOBIA would not exist.

It is inherent that when human beings lack, the instincts for primitive criminal acts rise. Lacking Africans regardless of their nationality are resorting to illegal migration, fraudulent identities, human trafficking, drug entrepreneurship, transactional marriages and xenophobia as a matter of survival and self expression.

As concerned Africans we need to have international networks pushing for employment creation programs from individual governments and intergovernmental bodies like EAC, COMESA, SADC, ECOWAS, AU etc.

If there were jobs in Zimbabwe, very few Zimbabweans will be in South Africa. If there was space for entrepreneurship within Ethiopia, Nigeria and DRC, the nationals of these countries doing business in South Africa will be doing those enterprises in their homelands. South Africans would least suspect there are jobs inherently theirs but inappropriately taken by foreign nationals.