"I was too treated like a stray dog while I worked in South Africa," Citizen TV's Janet Mbugua gives her accout of SA

Of late, South Africa has been under spotlight over the reckless killings of African immigrants by the native citizens. Citizen TV Janet Mbugua used to work there and her confession of Kwere Kwere will move you to tears

They claim that the immigrants, referred to as, Kwere Kwere, have taken over the jobs and businesses. Shops have been looted, innocent people killed and all manner of violence executed.

Citizen TV's anchor, Janet Mbugua, has come out to disclose on how she lived in fear when working for a South African media station. She was treated like a stray dog at the immigration department and this left a huge gap in her life although she had landed a lucrative career.

Living in South Africa always left me feeling unsettled. There was always an underlying sense of fear and concern regarding my status as a 'Kwere Kwere' (their derogatory term for African immigrants) and I wasn't able to easily secure my work permit because of the same. I even remember one of the women working at the immigration department at the SA high commission in Nairobi asking me, 'why you, why not a South African?' My answer to her was always, 'ask the South African company that head hunted me!'. I would later secure a work permit and contract for five years but I was by then too jaded to stay. I was relieved to finally leave and come back home in 2011. Although my colleagues and the organization I worked for treated me very well, living there, you could feel this sense of loathing towards fellow Africans building up, now it's boiled over in the worst possible way, including the murder of five foreigners, among them a 14-year-old boy (open the link to see what is happening there). South Africa needs serious healing and to hold the careless leaders inciting this madness accountable, while the rest of us need to do a serious self audit of how we treat each other. Something's got to change. Now.