ANC SG Fikile Mbalula says the June 30 anti-illegal migration shutdown was a failure because South Africa largely continued to function normally despite calls for a nationwide protest.
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Nigeria is demanding compensation from South Africa for its nationals who fled the country. It claims many were forced to abandon businesses, homes and other property.
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You're a propaganda machine. Dishonest, shameless, and opportunistic individual. A coward of note!
You left the part where the owner of that vehicle shot and injured protesters and they retaliated. Yeah, that's not convenient for your ill intended narrative.
One of South Africa’s biggest newspapers, The Times, filmed this barbarism today, where a car belonging to a foreign African national was set on fire in South Africa.
These are the kinds of idiotic, backward and criminal acts that destroy a country’s standing within the family of nations. This is not a fight against illegal immigration. This is a campaign to dehumanise and terrorise black Africans who look exactly like the people burning this car.
This has nothing to do with immigration law. These are petty criminals using immigration as a cover for violence, looting and hatred. What happened today was pure criminality, and it must be treated as such.
This is what we have been warning about: vigilante groups mobilising unemployed and unemployable people to go into the streets and burn other people’s property. No civilised society should tolerate this. No responsible government should allow this kind of lawlessness to take root.
What do tourists watching this think of South Africa? What do other nations watching this think of South Africa? What do investors think when they see mobs burning cars in the name of politics?
Because of a senseless minority with no sense of proportion, South Africa’s reputation is being dragged through the mud. The economic damage from this kind of lawlessness can run into billions of dollars, because no serious person anywhere in the world watches such scenes and says this is normal.
Yet this happened today in South Africa, in 2026.
Nobody civilised can defend this. Nobody decent can justify it. It is wrong, it is criminal, and it must be condemned without hesitation.
My countrymen have gone home. Jobs are now available in abundance. Now mobilise our South African brothers and sisters to take up those opportunities, because the South African economy depends on those jobs being filled.
If the claim was always that foreign nationals were taking South Africans’ jobs, then this is the moment to prove it. Fill the vacancies and keep the economy moving.