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    "id": 542343,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to thank my good friend, hon. Rachel Shebesh, for donating two minutes of her time to me. I want to support the Report on the Fifth Ordinary Session of the Pan-African Parliament. As I support, I wish to say that the spirit of pan-Africanism is to bring Africans together. As we debate this Report, we have to be conscious of what is happening in the seat of Pan-African Parliament, which is South Africa. Those of us who sympathized with South Africans when they were fighting apartheid wonder what is happening in that country. Black Africans from other countries are now feeling very unsafe in South Africa.When things happen like this, it really baffles us. This is because young people believed that Africa would not be free until South Africa became free. To see South Africans turning their anger on fellow black Africans is, I think, most unfortunate. I want to quote the words of a person I admire greatly, the hon. Dr. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe regarding the xenophobia in South Africa. This is what he had to say:- “South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man, but will not even attempt to slap a live one, yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he is a foreigner” Hon. Speaker, I cannot understand this thinking of black South Africans turning their anger on fellow blacks, people whose countries provided refuge to South Africa hardly 20 years ago. It is total madness. I know that even Kenyans are affected. It is something that we stand to condemn. It is something that I hope PAP will debate. We hope it will be stopped and it shall never recur. I support."
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