Asanda Sikisi

Is this the life you were meant to live or is your life the sum of your decisions?

[Asanda Sikisi @Asa_Asanda2]

A philosophy to live by

[N A S 🍫 @naztridamus]

@DAQUANDSG 😅

[Asanda Sikisi @Asa_Asanda2]

@ZizinjaAbelungu @MaxNomaNini Buying it on credit, with instalments!

[Vuka Africa @Thisthat_Acadmy]

True but sounds very personal

[Nandi 🤍💜🤍 @pallnandi]

Most faithful men need more sex because you’re their only source of sexual intimacy. If he’s choosing to stay loyal to you, don’t punish him for wanting you.

[Vuyo Zungula MP 🇿🇦 @ZungulaVuyo]

The crux of the issue in the ConCourt judgment

The ConCourt judgment amongst other matters ruled that a person who is illegal in South Africa cannot be arrested and deported IF they express an INTENTION to apply for asylum. Effectively, if an illegal immigrant just EXPRESSES an intention to apply for asylum they have to be released.

Yes we know asylum application doesn’t mean refugee status nor citizenship. The crux of the issue is what does an asylum application mean and what is afforded to people who merely posses a Section 22 permit.

A Section 22 permit is a legal document that is issued to an individual that has applied for asylum in South Africa whilst they await for Home Affairs to make a decision.

A holder of a Section 22 permit can access SRD grants, is legally enabled to study, be employed and run businesses in South Africa.

Auditor General back in 2020 stated, to clear the backlog on asylum applications and appeals, if no new applications are received it will take 68 years for Home Affairs to clear the backlog.

Home Affairs indicates, it takes between 5-10 years for a decision to be finalised on an asylum application given the appeals & court processes. This is unlikely to change as the Refugee Status Determination Officers are less than a 100 for the whole country.

The troubling feature as stated by Home Affairs is that 95% of asylum applications are denied as not meeting the legal requirements of a refugee.

Home Affairs doesn’t have a system to track and trace individuals who are asylum applicants. Most asylum applicants receive the Section 22 permit fail to report to Refugee Reception Office & continue to live in SA without lawful documentation.

Home Affairs doesn’t have systems to adequately ascertain whether asylum seekers are not fugitives. Fulgence Kayishema was criminally indicted for the killing of 2000 people in Rwanda. He came to South Africa seeking asylum and was given a refugee status, he lived in the country under a false name for more than 20 years working.

The Employment Services Amendment Bill proposes a removal of an “asylum seeker” in the definition of a foreign national. Meaning a foreign national who is illegal in the country, who has just merely applied for asylum is afforded the same rights as a citizen. This is even though 95% of asylum applications do not meet legal requirements and it takes a minimum of 5 years for an application to be finalised. In those years, they are legally entitled to work just like citizens.

The anger directed to the South African government by its citizens is legitimate. This ruling effectively means an illegal immigrant can have legal status in South Africa through an asylum application.

Even though 95% of these applications are not legitimate, they will still get to have access to work and business opportunities, SRD grants until the applications are finalised which takes years.

[Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls]

I remember the first time I read The Brothers Karamazov. I was 19, living on my own for the first time in Milwaukee with an awful boyfriend. I worked in a deli downtown that no longer exists. After work I went to the library and read Dosteovsky and he changed me forever.

[Moraa keen🇰🇪 @moraakeen]

Stop helping them brand South Africa as Xenophobes. They want to destroy South Africa.

They are diverting attention from the real issues, from the unaddressed historical injustices and the unemployment rates.

If your countries are perfect, why are you forcing your way into South Africa?

[Moraa keen🇰🇪 @moraakeen]

My take; South Africans ain't Xenophobic, they are fighting actual issues that should be addressed. Their government has failed them.

Let them fight the system.

Am sorry for thinking that you guys are Xenophobic. I also fell into that propaganda trap.

My apologies to South Africans.

[ERROL💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 @errolbsk]

A criminal arrives from Somalia, with no papers. He claims he is a refugee. We have no means of verifying who he is, what is his criminal record or whether he is a danger to SAns. We instead, allow him to apply for refugee status at Home Affairs. What a fucking stupid country.

[G2G @Mos3103]

Her laptop has Euro Truck Simulator 2, and the truck's speed limit has been removed😭💔💔💔💔

[MindBranches @MindBranches]

Your Entire Life Changes When You Realize Getting Rich Is A Skill Issue

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[Dr. Koena Moabelo 🇿🇦 @Koena_za]

He just ruined Christmas for me.

[Wow, He’s Tsonga! @_aboihasnoname]

You don’t send a boy to do a man’s job.

[𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗦𝗢𝗡 @WatsonArinda]

Whoever WROTE this hymn, I would love to know what inspired it.

It must have come from a deep place in their spirit, inspired by the HOLY SPIRIT. 🥹

[Kylie Riordan @mindfulheal]

This is generational wealth

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

Colonial British atrocities around the world.

[Precious @Prehshh]

This scene from wolf of wall streets is probably the greatest in film history…
Rules of Wall Street. Traders pay attention 👂

[Dr Kolisa Yola Sinyanya (PhD) 🌍📚🇿🇦 @Kolie_Yola]

First they envy and criticize you. Then they emulate you.

South Africa, my dear, you'll always be famous! 😂🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[JJ Opperman @jj_jjopperman]

We’re losing this country, and it’s not some theory on the radio. It’s happening here. People walk in from the other side of the border like the line is a suggestion. They stream through Beitbridge, Lebombo, the bush, the ports. Nobody counts them properly. Nobody sends them back. Then we act shocked when the clinic is full, the queue is longer, and the wage at the bottom gets cheaper. There’s nothing cute about it. Hardworking South Africans are falling through the floor — no work, no lights, no safe street — while the state still finds a speech about ubuntu and an open door. Citizens who paid tax, waited in Home Affairs, and played by the book get told they’re heartless for noticing. People who aren’t even on the list get the bed, the job, the grant argument, and the benefit of the doubt. Then the same politicians who can’t keep a hospital stocked call you xenophobic for asking who belongs first. Close the book on the fairy tale. This isn’t charity anymore. It’s a government that won’t hold a border, won’t police a street, and still wants applause for the lecture. That makes me angry.

[Da Sciencetist @SciencetistT]

she didn’t mince her words, call those so called Pan Africans to come listen and learn