Minister of Sports Arts & Culture Gayton McKenzie says illegal immigrants in South Africa must leave but not through violence, “those who say we must chuck foreign nationals out through violence must do it with their children so they can go to Jail , they must leave our children alone.” #sabcnews
These xenophobic fools actually think that neighbouring countries would not find alternative trade partners to South Africa.
A bunch of economic illiterates.
Trump and his goons thought the same about Canada. Canada has increased trade with other countries while decreasing against the US.
We have businesses abroad, students, lecturers, residents, we have sporting teams that compete in international competitions.
One can only imagine the uncomfortable situations they find themselves in, simply because this government is unable to reign in a barefoot Ku Klux Klan that has no appreciation of global community.
Yesterday’s FIFA World Cup Opening showed what this handful of hateful Ntelezi idiots have done for South Africa’s international reputation and decades of goodwill.
All the genuine outrage against illegal immigration has drowned under their violent acts, human rights violations and threats while they run around the country barefoot telling us they are “men”
Decades of goodwill built on international solidarity, opposition to Israeli genocide in Palestine, cooperation with other nations, gone to dust.
Football is a global language where even politics find expression, and these jokes about how SA at the World Cup is in a “rush to go home and defend their jobs and women” or how “They can’t attack Mexico because they are not African and Black” - this is not only banter, it’s political satire
It shows how the world view is shifting towards viewing South Africa as a hub of hate, something that has never been part of our identity. I mean we are being compared to Argentina and Morocco, who have committed human rights atrocities against Africans respectively.
The State should take responsibility for allowing hate groups which stop children at clinics, schools, beat people and in some instances incite murder, to define our international identity. It’s not a joke, and we cannot banter our way out of it. It’s a stain.
South Africa being regarded as the hate capital of Africa at a FIFA World Cup would have been unimaginable in 2010.
Israel is smiling wherever it is, because its mission accomplished. We have lost our moral authority on the global stage.
In 1966, All African counties boycotted the World Cup to protest apartheid and how black South Africans were marginalized
In 2026, All African countries supported Mexico against South Africa in protest against their xenophobia
Live long enough
Chasing Pregnant women, killing of young sick children and denying them of basic health care service is not a Democratic right, it is thuggery.
We would rather sit on the political backbench than participate in vigilantism and the persecution of vulnerable people.
Mind you… all immigrant academics are in South Africa legally, with work permits, bringing international expertise into the country (hence our universities are top rated). But March and Marchers consider their presence a problem because it was NEVER about ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
🔴Former South African president Jacob Zuma seen here beating the anti-immigrants war drum in Zulu, saying women who used to trade in the informal sector have now been put out of business by foreigners who have now hijacked their space and activities.
He goes on to say some people want to defend this - "what a shock!!!" - and rhetorically asks his crowd in the end "but whose country is this?".
Zuma's opposition MK Party is closely working with the intensely xenophobic, Afrophobic and tribal March and March led by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, in a campaign by proxy for the upcoming November local government elections.
Immigrants and associated problems have became their mobilising instrument.
There are millions of immigrants, most of them undocumented, in South Africa, including Zimbabwe.
I posted this yesterday on my other social media platforms, I’m not sure how I missed posting it here on X.
My response to the current xenophobia debate:
Xenophobia is not a solution to poverty, unemployment, or inequality. We must address the real causes of economic injustice rather than blame fellow Africans and foreign nationals.
#NoToXenophobia #AfricanUnity #SouthAfrica #EconomicJustice #azaniamovement