South Africa history of sanctions of the 80s has taught us that we can be resilient people. SA needs to address issues of illegal immigration and we cannot fear losing out on the continent. Fear mongering wont help. What i can take from your message that you are not addressing is that illegal migrants that are in SA have been remitting lots of money across the border from what they make in SA and there is fear that all is going to be lost and it will impact negatively on your countries. SA companies operating in the continent are benefiting those countries through employment and paying taxes to those countries tax authorities. Kicking SA companies out from your countries might make other foreign investors to walk away as they use SA investors as a yardstick and thereby putting your country under more hardship. Let all govts impacted by these deportations address the core issues causing illegal immigration. SAns are supportive of legal migration with all guests respecting our laws as much as we expect SAns to respect laws of countries they visit. You are probably penning all these tweets sitting in a foreign country and i guess you are legal wherever you are. Respect for the law is non-negotiable and we have drawn the line as SAns.
You are removed from reality on the ground and it seems the anc forgot that the masses stayed behind in the country and faced the apartheid army and police with stones and molotovs. We shall respond at the next municipal elections with our crosses to make you hear our voices. We see its comfortable in the seat of power and privilege.
@cmatewu Were you an illegal immigrant in the UK or were you there legally? I have worked with migrants from the continent who are in SA legally and we have enjoyed working with them. Don’t misconstrue illegal immigration with legal migration where due process is followed.
The state has failed its voters and has slept on the job and it’s time for a wakeup call. You are running the state and demonstrate to us a willingness to deal with illegal immigration without fear or favour and there wont be any protest. We don’t owe illegal immigrants anything we as citizens we demand action and for SAns to be put first.
Uyabheda and where do you get the 4% stats from. As a journalist you need to go to townships, squatter camps and rural areas and you will appreciated the crisis of illegal immigrants. A lot of these migrants have taken jobs that would ordinarily contributed to SAns being employed. I hear journalist talking about the positives of illegal immigrants and not talking about the illegal activities they are involved in. I grew up in Winterveldt and i spend time there and i have seen the damage that has been inflicted. Stock theft has sky rocketed in our area and mostly driven by illegal immigrants and they have created their own meat markets. So if you want us to respect you as a journalist, go into these areas and do your research and give us facts that are well researched.
Journalism has gone to the gutters and gone are the days when one will get a balanced view that is factual and not pretending to protect and portray a particular group negatively. The protest was overall peaceful and isolated incidents cannot be taken as a blankets view of the biggest and most successful march. Illegal immigration is a big challenge and our govt needs to address it before the masses take law into thei own hands. Journalist are slowly marginalising themselves and we are grateful that social media is slowly exposing this low level reporting. We heard of immigrants also instigating the protesters resulting in repercussions for said instigators. I dream of a day where we can start enjoying reading what journalists put out and we can applaud them and appreciate their work. I doubt i will ever see that day in my remaining lifetime 🤔
You have failed Africa as leaders and you need to take a few steps back and reflect. The entitlement mentality will not develop Africa. WHO is a respected organisation and should be calling on all African leaders to start doing what is right for their countries. As WHO you remain silent whilst African countries health system collapse and you now want us to fall into the same trap and collapse our health system. WHO is advocating for illegal migration and you want us to remain silent. As South Africa, we want the rule of law to be enforced and for everyone to focus on developing their countries. We cannot have military aged men flooding our country and creating a security risk for us. We refuse to be bullied and labeled. You can sanctions us all you want and the rule of law must be enforced without fear or favour. As South Africans we have drawn a solid line and we will force ur government to enforce the laws they have approved. Honorable @DrTedros have an introspection and decide on how you want future generations to measure your legacy. It’s time for every country to put its citizens first and we are going to demand it from our own govt and push for the rest of the African continent to demand same. The time for looting resources by our leaders is over and we demand accountability. Peaceful marches is our right and we will exercise our rights as citizens of SA.
It will help to stop the inflow of illegal migrants🤭. Just to put things into perspective, we are not landlocked and our economy is not dependent on the sadc countries and in the contrary, they dependent on us. We close our border they choke (maybe Moz and Namibia can survive as they have ports). If Zim were to close the border, they will have a big challenge with maize as they import more maize from us. We are an export driven economy and check out trading partners and values to trade
@weloveghana042 Propaganda at its best and there is no such blockade. We have access to multiple ports in our own country and we dont need Moz. Actually Moz needs us more. Read about SACU and understand what revenue we give SADC and you will be ashamed of yourself.
@ShehuSani Are you not appreciative that we have billions of $ invested in your country and creating employment for your people. I now understand why your country is where it is. Always thinking of looting instead of driving good governance and ethical leadership.
@NigeriaStories You have entitlement mentality and you should know better as a well travelled business person. So don’t give lame excuses as we are not a banana republic. Respect SA and its people.
We urge you to come and collect all your citizens that are illegally in SA as they are just destructive to our country and disrespectful. Nigerian govt is complicit in these illegal migration and needs to self reflect and take care of its citizens. Your citizens must come back and fight for Nigeria and improve their country. As South Africans we will do what is right for our future. We support legal migration.
The Nigerian legislature members must be benefitting handsomely from these illegal immigrants to be protecting them so badly. We might be looking at a big transnational economic crime supported at highest levels. To even lie to say our borders with neighbouring countries are closed. Nigerians are masters of deception🤔😆
Misinformation is a killer. If you portray that you have been to university, a simple research would have shown you that we are the biggest exporter of minerals, agricultural products, motor vehicles, military equipment, financial and consulting services. Hence we don’t run out of foreign currency and thats a sign of a strong exporting economy. Look at South African companies in your own country and it will tell a story. South African we travel as tourist in a true sense and as expats in a legal way and we hate being illegal immigrants as we respect laws of countries we visit. I have personally traveled extensively and nothing beats the energy of our country. United we stand against illegal immigration.
We are winners and not scared to face challenges head on. We fought for our country to achieve its democracy and we continue to fight for a better future for next generation without bloodsuckers abusing our generosity and killing our future generations with drugs. Wake up and stand for your own country.
African countries need to wake up and start developing themselves and South African needs to give them rude awakening. For Africa to prosper, someone must make them uncomfortable and we are starting to play that role. I have traveled across africa and i see sleeping giants needing a good slap to see potential in themselves. We cannot babysit the whole continent. As South Africans we stand up for what we believe in and now it’s time to teach the rest of the continent to carry their own load and stand for themselves to develop the continent. We are pushing a second revolution to force the rest of the continent to prosper by themselves.
By their nature the failure rate it high and the ones that make a success it makes up for the rest. BEE is just recycling what has been made and does not create new wealth other than redistribution to a select few. I once proposed that govr should have created a wealth fund with the BEE deals and used the proceeds for socio-economic upliftment.