UMFANA KA MASAKAH

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[UMFANA KA MASAKAH @Kidd_ColeZN]

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[UMFANA KA MASAKAH @Kidd_ColeZN]

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[AKA @akaworldwide]

South Africa better wake the fuck up quick ... all that jokey jokey stuff is gonna kill you.

[Enhle @NkosazaneYaseSA]

🇿🇦 A reminder to everyone to submit your comments on the Employment Services Amendment Bill. Please make sure you play your part and put your views on record! 🙏🏾

I hear people saying, “It’s just a tick-box exercise; the decisions have already been made.” But that is precisely why we must participate & create a paper trail. Our submissions establish a record of what the public raised and when.

If it later emerges that public participation was merely a formality (cc @1Khosi_Meth ) , then we have a record to work from. The Constitutional Court has previously set aside legislation where Parliament failed to properly facilitate meaningful public participation. So let’s participate, document everything, and ensure that our voices are formally on record!!!!

[Mpho @RamaphiriMpho]

Copy and paste :REJECT THIS BILL

Citizen Submission: Employment Services Amendment Bill [B16-2026]
Submission details
To
Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour, attention Mr Zolani Sakasa
Email
[email protected]
Deadline
Friday, 6 November 2026, 16:00
From
[Full name], South African citizen
Town or area
[Where you live]
Contact
[Phone] · [Email]
Oral presentation
I wish to make an oral presentation at the public hearings. [Yes / No]
Summary of position
I support the Bill’s aim of putting South African work seekers first, and its framework of quotas, labour-market testing and fines. I object to Clause 1(d), which amends the definition of “foreign national” in section 1 to exclude refugees and asylum seekers.
That change would take refugees and asylum seekers outside the whole of the new Chapter 3A. Employers would not need to check whether a South African is available before hiring them, prepare a skills transfer plan, or count them against a quota. For South Africans looking for work, this would weaken the very protections the Bill is meant to create.
I ask the Committee to:
1keep the current definition of “foreign national”;
2write into the Act a clear rule that South African citizens are considered first for employment; and
3retain and enforce the Bill’s protections for local work seekers.
Who I am
I am a South African citizen who has been both employed and unemployed. I make this submission in my personal capacity, as an ordinary work seeker, and not on behalf of any business or organisation. I know first-hand what it means to look for work in this country, and what a single income means to a household.
My experience of employment and unemployment
Periods without work. [Optional - How long you were unemployed, and how many times. What kind of work you were looking for, and your qualifications or experience at the time.]
Looking for work. [Optional - How you searched: job boards, labour centres, the Department’s ESSA system, walking in to businesses, word of mouth. Roughly how many applications you made, and how many led to interviews.]
What it cost my household. [Optional - Who depends on your income. What your family went without, and how you got by: grants, family support, piece jobs, debt.]
Getting work. [Optional - How you found work in the end. What the job is or was, and what changed for your household once you were earning.]
What I saw first-hand. [MOST IMPORTANT SECTION. Anything you experienced yourself, for example a vacancy you were qualified for that was filled without being advertised locally, or being told no suitable South Africans had applied. Only include what you saw or experienced directly.]
What I learned. [Optional. For example, training or a learnership that helped you get work, which shows that skills gaps can be closed locally.]
My experience is not unusual. Many people in my community are in the same position. A job is often the only income in a household, and every vacancy matters.
Objection to Clause 1(d)
1. It works against the Bill’s own purpose. Section 2(1)(h)(iii), as amended, says foreign employment must promote work opportunities for and training of South African citizens and permanent residents. Exempting a large group of non-citizens from the labour-market test and from quotas weakens that protection at a time of very high unemployment.
2. It weakens the quota test. Proposed section 12B(7)(c) requires the Minister to consider the availability of skills “among South Africans, refugees and asylum seekers” when setting a quota. A quota could therefore be set higher because skills exist among refugees and asylum seekers, even where South Africans with those skills are still looking for work.
3. Asylum seekers have no determined status. An asylum seeker is someone whose application has not yet been decided. Applications can remain pending for long periods, and not all are approved. Giving undecided applicants the same hiring status as citizens is premature

[Vuyo Zungula MP 🇿🇦 @ZungulaVuyo]

We have just cautioned the Dpt of Employment & Labour on the exclusion of Asylum seekers in the definition of foreign nationals.

Home Affairs has stated 95% of asylum seekers are denied as they are not legitimate. Given how it takes years for Home Affairs to make a decision on asylum applications, the holder of a section 22 permit can be entitled to work. That opens doors for companies to legally sideline local labour in favour of foreign labour which is subject to exploitation.

[Mpho @RamaphiriMpho]

Copy this template and stand against @deptoflabour

[UMFANA KA MASAKAH @Kidd_ColeZN]

Asiyeni syolwela izwe bakwethu.
Demand Urgent Reform of South Africa’s Asylum and Immigration System - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/cPyEa2Cozw

[Mpho @RamaphiriMpho]

Demand Urgent Reform of South Africa’s Asylum and Immigration System - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/BMhdPqSuwG via @Change

[Mpho @RamaphiriMpho]

Did you know that while you are home and unemployed the @deptoflabour signed the Bill that will treat the Asylum seekers like South Africans when it comes to job seeking? You the unemployed South African you will be competing for jobs with asylum seekers because of @deptoflabour and you South Africans won’t be prioritised. So asylum seekers will be prioritised and hired over South Africans for jobs that don’t require special skills ?

Now do your part and stand against this bullshit @deptoflabour . South African unemployment rate is already high and they want to keep on sidelining you

The template is in the comments . EMAIL THEM GUYS

[IEC South Africa @IECSouthAfrica]

@WonderMahlobo This information is incorrect.

Asylum seeker status does not give a person the right to vote in South African elections. Only South African citizens who are 18 years or older & on the voters’ roll are eligible to vote.

Always verify information through official IEC platforms.

[Herman Mashaba @HermanMashaba]

It will only keep getting worse if as South Africans you do not wake up and smell the coffee. It’s time to vote for leadership that will prioritise South Africans instead of playing saviour to the world while making its own people suffer. On the 4th of November, let’s come together and kick out the ANC, restore our country, and ensure its benefits are for South Africans ONLY!!

[NyiKo🧔🏾 @Nyiko_Ntu]

🇿🇦 Bahlali, lets get involved.

This bill seek to address the employing of foreign nationals in the country.

[Department of Employment and Labour @deptoflabour]

Employment Services Amendment Bill https://t.co/B0qoMBgHmi |
Employment Services Amendment Bill (4/2014), 2026: Publication of Explanatory Summary of the Bill https://t.co/nCnzJwaHcL

#Yazini #ServicedeliveryZA #GovZAUpdates #YouthMonth2026

[Q @Qetello_M]

@deptoflabour South Africa keeps releasing amendment bills and regulations on foreign nationals. Nothing about the real native people of this country 🚮🚮🚮

[Don Draper @Pam_News]

@deptoflabour This is the email to send comments to apparently:
[email protected]

[siyá ꕤ @siyasinivasan]

Guys Kuningier, Employment Services Amendment bill is published for public comment,look close to the amendment of section 22 & the definition of a “foreign national”,they want refugees & asylum seekers to have same standing in getting permanent employment in SA on ordinary jobs😭

[JJ Sesing @JjSesing]

The Islamic people running Spaza Shops in our townships are laundering money & funding terrorism. Read for yourself 👇🏽 @MbalulaFikile @helenzille

[Enhle @NkosazaneYaseSA]

Guys, please don’t forget to have your say on the Employment Services Amendment Bill…This Bill could have a direct impact on employment and how FOREIGN NATIONALS are employed in South Africa, so please don’t sit this one out!!!!!!!

Public comments close on 6 November 2026 at 16:00. ⏰

Read the Bill, submit your views and, in your numbers, tell your families, friends and colleagues to do the same. If you don’t participate now, don’t complain later when decisions are made that affect you. Make your voice count….