@Chrispin_JPhiri Everyone can see through their nonsense.
RSA has 80 murders a day.
Foreigners are 3x over-represented per capita in SA prisons/crime. (Just officially)
Yet everytime there's a protest they claim any of their murders at that time are from xenophobia.
https://t.co/iyr2bZuCi8
Dirco disputes international claims over migrant deaths in SA - The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) is challenging international statements on the recent wave of violence targeting foreign nationals in South... https://t.co/WcKvyvAySA
@ZANewsFlash@Mlungisi_Nzima Everyone can see through their nonsense.
RSA has 80 murders a day.
Foreigners are 3x over-represented per capita in SA prisons/crime. (Just officially)
Yet everytime there's a protest they claim any of their murders at that time are from xenophobia.
https://t.co/00v1K1yVVV
NEWS: The South African government has rebuked Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), for falsely claiming that Ethiopian nationals were killed in the country due to xenophobic attacks.
It pointed out that the death Ghebreyesus claimed were, in fact, results of organised crime - KZN Tonight Podcast
@SIMBA58912083@AfricaFirsts@summarizest It's still 109 countries access for SA.
The 66 is just for visa-free. That was never over 100. It is however above 100, if you add 'visa on arrival'.
@John33355989@MadeforTyresse The irony is a Nigerian on YouTube was saying this about their people in UK. They all do this.
He made a video telling his fellow West Africans to stop LYING to their people back home about being succesful in the Uk, when most are there struggling.
SA, it's even worse.
It is profoundly heartbreaking to witness another surge of xenophobic violence in #SouthAfrica this week. Hundreds have marched on Parliament, thousands of families have been displaced, and lives have been tragically cut short.
These include at least five Ethiopians killed earlier in the attacks, and five Mozambicans who died in Mossel Bay. Thousands more are now fleeing for their lives.
To see South Africa turn to xenophobia is a tragic betrayal of the country's struggle for independence and freedom. African nations stood united to dismantle apartheid. Ethiopia proudly supported "Madiba," Nelson Mandela, in 1962 and issued him a passport so he could travel the continent. Other countries helped in many ways, including with political and financial support.
Disagreements and grievances must be addressed by the justice system and the rule of law, never through vigilante violence and collective punishment.
South Africa deserves better. Africa deserves better.
Stop the hate. Protect the vulnerable. Uphold our shared humanity.
@AlgoTeacher Not rare at all. Foreigners attack South African police all the time.
This was a few years ago in the heart of Joburg, when police & tax/customs officials were attempting inspection.
A sensible society would remove these people.
https://t.co/sA1BHMtO5d
@AlgoTeacher Not rare at all. Foreigners attack South African police all the time.
This was a few years ago in the heart of Joburg, when police & tax/customs officials were attempting inspection.
A sensible society would remove these people.
https://t.co/sA1BHMtO5d
Official immigration statistics from @SundayTimesZA and @StatsSA.
The vast majority of migrants into SA are from 3 of our 6 neighbours: Zimbabwe, Mozambique & Lesotho.
Virtually nobody from our other neighbouring countries: Namibia, Botswana, or Swaziland.
@nemesisinc Not according to natives or international law, & recognized by no country except Israel.
Ask yourself why that was.
An occupying group engaged in settler colonialism so the answer should be to now flood the country so that natives lose their home. 🤡
https://t.co/1UwNB7E5Hl
@BulelaniTs1592@Mxbeez ?? This is totally irrelevant to this thread.
We're talking about the urban establishment middle class who use private healthcare and don't use these overburdened public services.
Zim economy is highly informal with lots of foreign nationals from DRC, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mozambique, Rwanda very active in the spazza shops aka tuckshops in Harare, lured by the use of US$ which they easily take out of Zimbabwe to their home countries. Nobody harasses them
@sandileswana There were about ~100K suppl. miners rotated in annually.
From each turnaround, people were on strictly enforced contracts & were RETURNED with remittances, barring a few who managed to skip/stay. Wasn't millions.
Your own post & economically relevant:
https://t.co/u8zJrO1rfc
The natives of SADC region were recruited systematically by WENELA and TEBA on a monopolised fixed wage system since 1900 to work the mines and to industrialise the Witwatersrand.
Migration from the labour sending areas did not happen overnight but RSA benefitted from cheap labour for 126 years at a minimum.
That is a historically accurate assessment. The systematic recruitment of millions of men from South African Development Community (SADC) nations transformed the Witwatersrand into the industrial hub of Africa at an immense human and social cost to the labour-sending regions.
Mechanism of Control: WENELA and TEBA
Monopoly Control: The Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WENELA) and the Native Recruiting Corporation (NRC)—later merged into The Employment Bureau of Africa (TEBA)—eliminated competition between mining houses.
Wage Suppression: This monopsony power kept black miners' real wages stagnant and artificially low for nearly a century.
The Compound System: Workers were housed in single-sex, closed barracks to strictly control mobility and suppress labour organizing.
Deferred Pay: A portion of wages was withheld and paid out only upon return to the home country, ensuring workers did not settle permanently in South African cities.
Impact on Labour-Sending Areas
Subsidized Capitalism: Rural economies and the unpaid labour of women in home countries subsidized the South African mining industry by bearing the costs of raising children and caring for sick or retired miners.
Underdevelopment: It drained productive, young male labour from countries like Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, crippling their domestic agricultural sectors.
Social Disruption: Prolonged absences fractured families and led to long-term demographic and social imbalances across the region.
The Legacy of Cheap Labour
Wealth Disparity: The infrastructure, manufacturing boom, and financial capital of modern South Africa were directly built on this 126-year-plus system of cheap migrant labour.
Externalized Costs: While South Africa retained the tax revenue and industrial infrastructure, regional neighbours were left with the legacy costs, including high rates of occupational diseases like silicosis and tuberculosis.
@OnePablo20@Mxbeez Middle class pays taxes anyway, cost of infrastructure is aggregated way beyond their payment.
Point is they use PRIVATE healthcare and so are out of touch with the reality of what happens in a PUBLIC clinic/hospital.
Hence they'll believe those that say there's no problem.
@RoryDuncan1966 Economic Illiteracy.
GDP is product over a stretch of time (a year).
The VALUATION of South African assets would be many TRILLIONS of dollars.
https://t.co/84j5zbyMnb
@Motlatsi_RC This fiction is not even remotely the rubicon speech.
The fact that you have to make this fantasy up says so much in itself...about yourself.
(Attached below link to actual speech.👇🏼)
https://t.co/jMhNYy7N5h