Sue Grace.

Believes in life and life in abundance,Greater grace.

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@MorolongZA Very fine❤️

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

When the Nigerian economy fell into hard times in the early 1980s, the government issued a “Quit order” expelling undocumented immigrants.

In the video below, Nigeria’s president, “Minister” Shehu Shagari fielded questions about the scale and the death of people during the mass exodus.

Interestingly, there was not much improvement in Nigeria’s economy after the order was carried out.

According to Dr Hashim Gibrill of Clark Atlanta University, “The economic impact was acute, notably in sectors like hospitality and construction, where many skilled workers were lost”.

Many foreign manual labourers and skilled tradesmen vanished overnight, stalling building projects, while small businesses, hotels, and agricultural sectors lost a massive pool of cheap, reliable labour.

At the same time, the policy failed to save the government economically as the economy continued to freefall. On 31 December, 1983, less than a year after the expulsion order, military Major General Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the government in a military coup, citing a completely ruined economy.

Ultimately, historians agree that the 1983 expulsion was a severe humanitarian tragedy that caused massive regional disruption and provided absolutely zero economic relief to Nigeria.

Now, to be fair, it makes total intuitive sense on the surface for people to believe that expelling migrants will improve their economic situation. That is precisely why political leaders throughout history have used this tactic because it relies on logic that feels like common sense, even though economic reality repeatedly proves it wrong.

This is because from a purely intuitive standpoint, people tend to look at the economy as a zero-sum game, with jobs, housing, and government resources as a fixed pie. It sense that if there are 100 jobs and 20 immigrants occupy some of them, expelling those immigrants means 20 citizens get those jobs.

Similarly, when unemployment and inequality are high, finding complex macroeconomic solutions takes years. But blaming a visible, distinct group of outsiders offers an instant, simple explanation for a complex mess, which makes it attractive to a frustrated public.

But the thing is that in any economy, jobs are not a fixed pie, and when you suddenly remove millions of consumers from a country, as Nigeria did in 1983, the demand for bread, clothes, transport, and rent plummets. Businesses lose customers, revenues drop, and many end up retrenching more workers.

Again, it’s common sense to assume a citizen will just step into an undocumented worker’s shoes. But in reality, citizens often refuse to work the same low-wage, backbreaking labour like seasonal agriculture. South African farmers routinely report struggling to recruit and retain local South African workers for these short-term, backbreaking harvesting seasons as farm work is highly intensive, temporary, and often located in remote areas.

South African citizens, who have constitutional rights, families to support locally, and expectations of fair labor standards, rightfully refuse to work for these illegal, sub-poverty wages.

So, this is less about citizens being “lazy” and more about the distortion of the labour market because undocumented workers lack legal protections, unscrupulous employers exploit them by paying well below the legal minimum wage and ignoring labour laws.

Still, if those undocumented workers disappear overnight, many exploitative small businesses and farms face sudden operational collapse rather than a seamless transition to local labour.

Needless to say, for South Africa, a sudden exit of regional labour, much like Nigeria experienced in 1983, would not solve South Africa’s unemployment catastrophe. Instead, it would instead cause immediate labour shortages in agriculture, spike food prices and shrink the overall size of the economic pie available to everyone.

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@RediTlhabi Redi, keep going ❤️

[Om @Om_Codes_]

I always think about this

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@bongyluaziey And thus almost 20% of our GDP, we are channeling the little we have to nothing instead of being producers. Kubi.

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@RediTlhabi You got this.

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@RediTlhabi @StandardBankZA Yesterday it was worse.

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@VickySteamboat @StandardBankZA What is this verification going on email? Yaaas

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@SizweLo Ruling from the grave, but the sons and daughters privy to the information will still not learn and continue to be controlled by those powers. But keep writing, you will not wake up everyone but those who now want to wake up will do so. Sending love to you.

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@UIFBenefits What is happening with your contact centre?, it's not working?

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@RediTlhabi @StandardBankZA The new site ,App authentication is not the one especially for business. It's just garbage.

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@EMukumbo @ImcocoMash Keep moving girl.

[Business Insider Africa @BusInsiderSSA]

Moroccan🇲🇦 billionaire Anas Sefrioui sells French cement plant to focus on African expansion

Moroccan billionaire Anas Sefrioui has sold his only cement plant in France, marking a strategic exit from Europe and a deeper focus on African markets where his CIMAF network has become one of the continent’s most widespread industrial operations.

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@MorolongZA Lol OP, do things that will give you sleep not only now but as long as you and your business live. Most of what SMEs render as liability is not business money, it's deductions from employees, and vat charged to clients.