General AQB

Activist. Slave. I speak my mind!

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 South Africa will never grow outside and in excluding of the African Continent in the way you Comrades are doing. Never! There is not a single document (Stats SA, Labour market surveys, etc. that agrees with this lie). Zero! None. Its not there.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 Until that question is answered honestly, immigration will continue to be treated as the cause of a crisis whose roots lie much deeper in the structure of the South African economy.

Its advernture. Its gimmicks. Its populism. Its dangerous for ANC and South Africa.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 The real question South Africa should therefore be asking is not:
Who is taking the jobs but why is the economy producing so few jobs in the first place?

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 Those are structural economic problems for sure, structural economic problems require structural economic solutions.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 Even if every undocumented immigrant left the country tomorrow, South Africa would still confront weak economic growth, deindustrialisation, inadequate investment, collapsing logistics infrastructure, skills mismatches, youth unemployment, municipal dysfunction and inequality.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 The danger of the immigration narrative is that it can create the illusion that South Africa’s economic crisis would disappear if undocumented migrants disappeared.* I truly doubt that it would. To the opposite, it would not.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 Undocumented migration should be addressed because it implicates sovereignty, labour standards, public administration and social cohesion.

But that is a very different argument from suggesting that undocumented migration explains mass unemployment.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 No sovereign state can function without effective border management, lawful immigration systems and enforcement of labour regulations.

Employers who exploit undocumented workers to circumvent labour laws should be held accountable.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 An economy cannot redistribute jobs that do not exist. Nor can our economy produce these jobs from the sky. It must create them. This does not mean undocumented migration should be ignored.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 It is not producing enough factories.

It is not producing enough industrial capacity.

It is not producing enough infrastructure.

It is not producing enough investment.

It is not producing enough jobs.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 Which construction projects would take them?

Which new investments would create those opportunities?

The uncomfortable reality in my view is that the country’s unemployment crisis is fundamentally a production crisis. The economy is not producing enough growth.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 If undocumented immigrants disappeared tomorrow, where is the evidence that millions of jobs would suddenly emerge for South Africans?*

Which industries would absorb them?*

Which factories would employ them?*

Which mines would hire them?*

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 If undocumented immigrants are responsible for unemployment, why have sectors that employ very few undocumented migrants also experienced stagnant employment growth?*

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 If undocumented immigrants are the primary explanation, why has unemployment risen alongside deindustrialisation, declining fixed investment, collapsing rail infrastructure, electricity shortages, weak economic growth and declining manufacturing output?*

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 If undocumented immigrants are the principal cause of unemployment, why does SA continue to experience severe unemployment among graduates, professionals, engineers, teachers, technicians, accountants and other skilled categories that undocumented migrants do not dominate?*

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 Before we embrace the narrative that undocumented immigrants are materially responsible for unemployment crisis, several serious questions must first be answered.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@dr_zsaul1 The real question is not whether undocumented immigrants participate in SA’s labour market. For sure they do. The question is whether undocumented immigrants are sufficiently numerous and economically powerful to explain a national unemployment crisis affecting millions of SAns.

[General AQB @andaberg]

@FlySafair You humiliate people openly. Why must we DM instead of giving you what is done by some of your employees? Your East London Airport staff utter disgusting, vile and vulgar. At times, profiteering should precede humanity and humility.

[General AQB @andaberg]

South Africa requires urgent flights to compete with the monopoly of @FlySafair . The service of @FlySafair in barbaric and their profiteering has emboldened their arrogance. Disgusting and beyond pathetic.

[General AQB @andaberg]

What is happening to President @Julius_S_Malema mirrors the same pattern we saw with @andile_lungisa .

I stood then with Andile. I stand now in full support CiC.

The old order offensive hasn’t disappeared, it has evolved. It has its co-collaborators among us.

Rise CIC.