@Kamdooh@GovLeeKinyanjui Let's equally compare the standard of living between your country and South Africa. Infact we can use any matric to compare both countries before spewing myopia and dietribe about each other's country's.
@Kamdooh@GovLeeKinyanjui Let's compare a poor individual in your country and South Africa. A poor individual in SA is intitled to free housing, Social grant for elderly, Kids from birth to 18 years of age, free education from primary school to university, free health, unemployment grant, etc
@__Malebo@benwyse11@Nkosinathi_7 This is nothing but a recycled dietribe, it's an attempt to steamrol S, Africans into submission and to invalidate their lived experiences. Immigration issue is nuanced and you can't spew such myopia and it becomes your sole bases to discredit people who have genuine grievances.
🚨 BREAKING: LIMPOPO POLICE BUST HUMAN TRAFFICKING RING! 🚨
Five young men are safe tonight after an elite, intelligence-driven police raid smashed open a terrifying kidnapping syndicate in Levubu!
Here is the shocking reality of what went down:
■ A local spaza shop in Valdezia Mambedi Village was used to hide a dark, criminal operation.
■ Cops pushed past a locked door to find five traumatised victims (aged 18–24) huddled inside.
■ Abducted separately in Giyani, they were thrown into a truck and held hostage for 12 brutal days.
■ Surviving on just scraps of bread, they were repeatedly assaulted while captors terrorised their families for ransom cash.
■ Officers seized illicit cigarettes, phones, and cash, slapping handcuffs on two suspects.
🚨 Ethiopian nationals Misganu Gethchwe (24) and Teshal Tumebo (20) have already dragged their feet into court facing charges of kidnapping, money laundering, and possession of illicit goods.
Two dangerous suspects managed to escape and are currently running from the law.
Huge respect to the SAPS team who followed the clues and brought these young men home alive. Let’s get these remaining two behind bars where they belong!
@rotundainsights@Joe__Bassey South Africa is a constitutional democracy, Ramaphosa doesn't dictate on how people exercise their democracy, particularly if people's actions are within the confines of our constitution.
@meelijai@Dr_Afo I'm a South African and I can confidently tell you that there are more tensions online than in communities, a protest happening in major cities doesn't represent the feeling and feelings across the country. There are clout chasers, alarmist, populist occupying social media!
@Mogba9@Dr_Afo Social media is really not a real place, I can tell you for a fact that no single so-called foreign who can claim to be a victim of xenophobic attack. You guys need to verify images or videos being shared online. Indeed there are protests but no one has been attacked.
What's happening in South Africa requires all of us to be honest and to understand that two truths can coexist. South Africa has an immigration problem. This is true. South Africa has people who are both Afrophobic and xenophobic. This is another truth. To address what’s going on, we must accept those truths.
The South African government and governments across Africa must have a conversation about the immigration problem. South Africa cannot continue to bear the economic and social cost. And we can't afford to keep gaslighting South African citizens by stating that other Africans helped them during the apartheid struggle. This should never be used to silence them.
African governments must confront the reality facing their citizens and take responsibility for what has caused their citizens to migrate to South Africa. The South African government must also take responsibility for cosying up to other African governments and failing to hold them accountable for destroying their economies and making it hard for their citizens to remain in their countries. The South African government needs to be strong here. It cannot be soft. Hiding behind Pan-Africanist ideals and brotherhood that emerged from liberation movements doesn’t cut it.
We simply can't reduce this immigration problem to pushing narratives such as “South Africans are lazy, HIV-infected, uneducated.” Anyone saying so is dishonest. There is a real crisis. South Africa has remained the most unequal country in the world. The economic pie is largely in the hands of the white minority. Yet we expect the same Black people, who are excluded from accessing this economic pie, to share its crumbs with Africans from other countries. It seems unfair to expect that.
Saying this doesn't mean we do not acknowledge the existence of Afrophobes. They exist. In every struggle, there are people who exploit genuine grievances to drive selfish agendas, hate, etc. Is it right? Never. The South African government and other African governments must deal with Afrophobic and xenophobic actors. Innocent people cannot lose their lives and businesses because governments have failed to address socio-economic conditions.
SA has a crime problem, and it would be disingenuous of SA citizens to say crime is perpetuated by foreigners or illegal immigrants only. There are South Africans who commit crimes, and one cannot solve crime by scapegoating. There is an immigration problem which may potentially lead to crime and that needs to be addressed.
If immigration issues and socio-economic conditions are not addressed, these tensions will keep rearing their ugly heads.
Afrophobic South Africans also need to confront the truth about why they are solely targeting Black immigrants. This pattern mirrors what’s happening in the United States of America, where ICE disproportionately targets Black and Brown people. This disproportionate targeting isn’t random. It’s rooted in anti-Blackness and colonial hierarchies of belonging that code Blackness as foreign, criminal, or disposable. In both SA and the US, immigration enforcement becomes racialised. It has become a tool that punishes skin color by weaponising citizenship status.
It is painful to watch people stripped of dignity and abused simply for being foreigners in South Africa. To find a common path forward, we need to understand these nuances and hold all our African governments accountable. We are where we are because of them!
@AsakyGRN They don’t travel because they were taught not to bother anyone. We are so invested in their affairs. We should be fighting Tinubu not South Africans. They gave us a home in the last 30years and all we do is destroy it like we did back home.
UPDATE: Authorities have arrested over 200 foreign nationals in operations targeting illegal immigration and unlicensed business activity, according to Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson Simon Mundeyi. Officials say the crackdown is focusing on individuals in Uganda without valid work permits or visas, many of whom are allegedly operating businesses illegally.
#MonitorUpdates
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@gilbertybirds@DailyMonitor How would that work taking into cognizance the fact that you have more than 10 thousand Ugandans living in South Africa yet you can't account for more 100 South Africans in Uganda. Now by your lopsided and flawed logic wouldn't that be ill-considerate to Ugandans brothers in SA
@fulani__2@Lesedi__Larona ANC was voted out on the last elections if you didn't notice hence the Government of national unity that's currently governs South Africa, it's not ANC government!
@TayoCN@KennedyWandera_ Let's refrain from sentiments abit, take about jurisprudence that South African courts would rely on, courts are not about public opinions but facts. Mind you, organizations like March and March are very much within South African law cause their demonstration regulated by Law.
@MwenyeMo@ms_tourist@JacintaNgobese But Durban was infact doing well until the influx that rendered most parts of Durban unattractive, it hindered Tourism. And can we quantify and qualify how much contribution has illegal migration contributed in the city's economy!
@kamuhelo6@ms_tourist@JacintaNgobese Tourism was and still remain the bedrock of Durban's economy, you can't relagate the latter and expect the City to prosper.
@kamuhelo6@ms_tourist@JacintaNgobese So tourism doesn't contribute to the economy?
Can we compare Durban pre - influx and post - influx, in economic terms?
How do illegal migration contribute to our economy?