You guys dont understand, those Spazas are not relying solely on their rotten food stock for survival.
They can survive a full 3 months without having any sugnificant amount of sales. Ask yourself how they afford kiosk spaces at expensive malls like Menlyn and Gateway with just fixing screensavers and old phones?
Three Lesotho nationals appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court this morning for allegedly shooting and killing 13 people at the Jumpers informal settlement in Cleveland last month. The case was postponed to Thursday next week for a formal bail application. For more visit https://t.co/LM0zXWIybT
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An Ethiopian national, who is in South Africa illegally, was seen openly carrying a rifle while his shop was operating yesterday and today.
The resident says the sight of the firearm frightened members of the community in KZN, who are now calling on the authorities to investigate the matter.
Minister of Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald wants foreign offenders to serve jail terms in their countries of origin.
There are more than 24 000 foreign offenders in correctional facilities and they cost his department R11 million per day.
our petrol attendant was telling us they were called and asked to come back with people who can start working this week because all the illegal foreigners left . That’s just one business . Imagine how many familes March & March changed . Beautiful 🇿🇦🤍
@MbalulaFikile Our whole office park closed and most of my former employers. I couldn’t order on MrD and UberEats as they stopped operating for the day. The streets were quite empty suggesting people were either working from home or completely closed. You guys are so out of touch with reality
Nigeria is demanding compensation from South Africa for its nationals who fled the country. It claims many were forced to abandon businesses, homes and other property.
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I used to buy those cheap sunglasses from the roadside all the time and always thought, "What's the point of buying expensive ones? I'm going to loose them anyway." Then one day, I gathered the courage and bought an expensive sunglasses. And guess what? I still have them. I've taken care of them ever since.
That's when I realized those cheap sunglasses weren't getting lost because they were cheap? They were getting lost because I didn't value them enough to care. It's hard to accept, but sometimes in someone else's story, you are that cheap pair of sunglasses.
When she asked, “Why aren’t South Africans fighting against white foreigners as well?” I was genuinely annoyed because it completely misses the point.
White South Africans or foreigners generally aren’t competing with illegal migrants for limited public resources. Most don’t live in townships or informal settlements where the pressure on public clinics, schools and low skilled jobs is felt most. Poor black South Africans do.
That’s why this issue is experienced differently. It’s not about race. It’s about who is directly affected by the competition for already stretched public resources.
People who live side by side with illegal migrants and rely on the same public services are naturally going to have different concerns from those who don’t. Their experiences deserve to be acknowledged, not reduced to accusations of xenophobia. I don’t know why she and everyone including the government and politicians don’t get it. I’m not directly affected by illegal immigrants but I can’t dismiss the lived experiences of people who are affected by them.