I SUMMARIZED THIS EXCHANGE
🇿🇦: We are against illegals in SA
🇳🇬: But I am not illegal
🇿🇦: We don’t want foreigners who take our jobs
🇳🇬: I created jobs for South Africans
🇿🇦: We just want you to leave our country even if you created jobs & are documented
🇳🇬: No problem, pay what I invested, I will leave
🇿🇦: We will see you on June 30th
NOTE: That business might get destroyed & the owner killed if this issue is not handled swiftly.
The African diaspora needs to stop treating this as just another online debate.
If South Africa wants to normalise the mistreatment, humiliation and scapegoating of other Africans, then Africans outside South Africa should respond economically and culturally.
Stop watching South African films and shows. Stop buying South African wine. Stop buying South African products. Stop promoting South African tourism. Stop rewarding a country that treats vulnerable Africans as disposable while still expecting African solidarity, African markets and African cultural support.
This is not hatred of ordinary South Africans. It is a refusal to support a system and a social climate that dehumanises other Africans while calling it patriotism.
If African lives matter, then African money, attention and cultural support should also matter.
At this point, it is a moral obligation! I for one, I am done!
Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somalian to referee at the World Cup finals, has been dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States.
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https://t.co/0UKWXuq8O3
If Africa's top referee is inadmissible in America, who qualifies? Many are calling it racism.
Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan was denied entry into the US "due to vetting concerns" even though he had a 3-month multiple entry visa and was traveling on a diplomatic passport