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🚨 SOUTH AFRICANS ARE NOT LAZY, THEY ARE CHOOSY! ABAFUN SEBENZA EMAFARM🇿🇦 A representative of the South African Farmers Development Association argued that many farming jobs, particularly sugarcane cutting, pay at least the minimum wage, and in some cases more than general farm labour. His view was that the challenge is not necessarily a lack of jobs, but that many South Africans choose not to take certain types of physically demanding work. Do you agree with that assessment, or do you think wages and working conditions remain the real reason these jobs struggle to attract local workers? Let's debate. 👇🏾

🚨 SOUTH AFRICANS ARE NOT LAZY, THEY ARE CHOOSY! ABAFUN SEBENZA EMAFARM🇿🇦 A representative of the South African Farmers Development Association argued that many farming jobs, particularly sugarcane cutting, pay at least the minimum wage, and in some cases more than general farm labour. His view was that the challenge is not necessarily a lack of jobs, but that many South Africans choose not to take certain types of physically demanding work. Do you agree with that assessment, or do you think wages and working conditions remain the real reason these jobs struggle to attract local workers? Let's debate. 👇🏾

In A Nutshell🥜

26,927 次观看 • 23 天前

My countrymen have gone home. Jobs are now available in abundance. Now mobilise our South African brothers and sisters to take up those opportunities, because the South African economy depends on those jobs being filled. If the claim was always that foreign nationals were taking South Africans’ jobs, then this is the moment to prove it. Fill the vacancies and keep the economy moving.

My countrymen have gone home. Jobs are now available in abundance. Now mobilise our South African brothers and sisters to take up those opportunities, because the South African economy depends on those jobs being filled. If the claim was always that foreign nationals were taking South Africans’ jobs, then this is the moment to prove it. Fill the vacancies and keep the economy moving.

Hopewell Chin’ono

326,961 次观看 • 1 个月前

🚨 WERE WE MISLED ABOUT FARM WORKERS' PAY Many farm employers comply with the minimum wage, and sugarcane cutters can earn more than general farm labourers. He argued that the bigger challenge is that many South Africans are unwilling to take physically demanding jobs such as bricklaying, grass cutting and sugarcane cutting. If that's true, then perhaps the debate isn't only about wages, but also about the type of work people are willing to do. Do you agree, or do you think low pay and poor working conditions are still the main reasons these jobs struggle to attract local workers? 👇🏾

🚨 WERE WE MISLED ABOUT FARM WORKERS' PAY Many farm employers comply with the minimum wage, and sugarcane cutters can earn more than general farm labourers. He argued that the bigger challenge is that many South Africans are unwilling to take physically demanding jobs such as bricklaying, grass cutting and sugarcane cutting. If that's true, then perhaps the debate isn't only about wages, but also about the type of work people are willing to do. Do you agree, or do you think low pay and poor working conditions are still the main reasons these jobs struggle to attract local workers? 👇🏾

In A Nutshell🥜

20,422 次观看 • 23 天前

JACINTA LIED TO US! 🚨🌾 We were told that foreign sugarcane workers are being exploited and paid "slave wages." But many farmers say experienced sugarcane workers are paid well above the national minimum wage, especially where pay is linked to productivity and output. The bigger question is this: if these jobs are supposedly so poorly paid, why do many farmers say they struggle to recruit enough local workers while experienced workers from neighbouring countries continue to fill the vacancies? Perhaps the real debate isn't just about wages, it's also about the demanding nature of the work, labour shortages, and how South Africa secures enough workers to keep key agricultural industries running. Let's have an honest conversation based on facts, not slogans 🌾🇿🇦

JACINTA LIED TO US! 🚨🌾 We were told that foreign sugarcane workers are being exploited and paid "slave wages." But many farmers say experienced sugarcane workers are paid well above the national minimum wage, especially where pay is linked to productivity and output. The bigger question is this: if these jobs are supposedly so poorly paid, why do many farmers say they struggle to recruit enough local workers while experienced workers from neighbouring countries continue to fill the vacancies? Perhaps the real debate isn't just about wages, it's also about the demanding nature of the work, labour shortages, and how South Africa secures enough workers to keep key agricultural industries running. Let's have an honest conversation based on facts, not slogans 🌾🇿🇦

In A Nutshell🥜

157,775 次观看 • 22 天前

🚨YOU WANTED THE Jobs ANGITH... NOW IT'S TIME TO CLOCK IN! 😂🌾 For years we were told undocumented migrant workers were "taking all the jobs." Now reports say sugar cane farms in KZN are facing labour shortages after many undocumented workers left. Well... here's the opportunity many have been waiting for. The vacancies are there. The sugar cane is waiting. 🌾😅 We don't want to here that South Africa is running outbof sugar next year... Hambani niyophangela.. The real test is here: can you survive the scorching heat, the long hours, the back-breaking work, and the daily grind? It's easy to say "they're taking our jobs" from behind a keyboard. It's a different story when it's 35°C in the fields and you're swinging a cane knife all day. This isn't about mocking anyone it's about recognising that some jobs are incredibly demanding, and labour shortages are a real challenge for certain industries. So... who's signing up tomorrow morning? 😭😂 If these jobs become available, should unemployed South Africans take them? Mina I wanna have my sugar consistently 😢 Or is there a bigger conversation about wages, working conditions, and why employers struggle to fill them? Let's Talk 🌾🇿🇦

🚨YOU WANTED THE Jobs ANGITH... NOW IT'S TIME TO CLOCK IN! 😂🌾 For years we were told undocumented migrant workers were "taking all the jobs." Now reports say sugar cane farms in KZN are facing labour shortages after many undocumented workers left. Well... here's the opportunity many have been waiting for. The vacancies are there. The sugar cane is waiting. 🌾😅 We don't want to here that South Africa is running outbof sugar next year... Hambani niyophangela.. The real test is here: can you survive the scorching heat, the long hours, the back-breaking work, and the daily grind? It's easy to say "they're taking our jobs" from behind a keyboard. It's a different story when it's 35°C in the fields and you're swinging a cane knife all day. This isn't about mocking anyone it's about recognising that some jobs are incredibly demanding, and labour shortages are a real challenge for certain industries. So... who's signing up tomorrow morning? 😭😂 If these jobs become available, should unemployed South Africans take them? Mina I wanna have my sugar consistently 😢 Or is there a bigger conversation about wages, working conditions, and why employers struggle to fill them? Let's Talk 🌾🇿🇦

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54,852 次观看 • 26 天前

Over 50K returnees have streamed back to Zimbabwe from South Africa. What immediate impact will that have on the South African economy? Will the jobs they leave behind, whether as employees or skilled tradesmen, simply be filled by South Africans, or is there an unavoidable economic cost? What happens to sectors already grappling with critical skills shortages and will international investors still be willing to come to the party if labour uncertainty becomes entrenched? Finally, are those in South Africa legally, safe from being caught in the political and social crossfire? Is Pretoria doing enough?

Over 50K returnees have streamed back to Zimbabwe from South Africa. What immediate impact will that have on the South African economy? Will the jobs they leave behind, whether as employees or skilled tradesmen, simply be filled by South Africans, or is there an unavoidable economic cost? What happens to sectors already grappling with critical skills shortages and will international investors still be willing to come to the party if labour uncertainty becomes entrenched? Finally, are those in South Africa legally, safe from being caught in the political and social crossfire? Is Pretoria doing enough?

Tinashe

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🚨SANs WANT QUALITY JOBS, NOT SURVIVAL JOBS! NOT JOBS JUST TO GET BY... "South Africans don't want slaves jobs." — Julius Malema. This is a statement that's sparking debate. Should the focus be on creating jobs at any cost, or ensuring workers earn a living wage with dignity? What do you think should South Africans accept any job available, or should government and employers prioritize decent-paying jobs that can support families? Then who's going to do the dirty slaves jobs.....

🚨SANs WANT QUALITY JOBS, NOT SURVIVAL JOBS! NOT JOBS JUST TO GET BY... "South Africans don't want slaves jobs." — Julius Malema. This is a statement that's sparking debate. Should the focus be on creating jobs at any cost, or ensuring workers earn a living wage with dignity? What do you think should South Africans accept any job available, or should government and employers prioritize decent-paying jobs that can support families? Then who's going to do the dirty slaves jobs.....

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“President Mahama sent 300 Ghanaians back to Ghana. Tell me how many jobs have been created since then. These foreigners do the jobs you don’t want to do and are often underpaid. You refuse to do these so-called ‘slave jobs’ because you want jobs with benefits and pensions, yet you still claim foreigners are taking your jobs, which is not true.” — Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), addressing South Africans, arguing that immigrants are not the cause of unemployment but rather South Africans attitudes toward low-paying work.

“President Mahama sent 300 Ghanaians back to Ghana. Tell me how many jobs have been created since then. These foreigners do the jobs you don’t want to do and are often underpaid. You refuse to do these so-called ‘slave jobs’ because you want jobs with benefits and pensions, yet you still claim foreigners are taking your jobs, which is not true.” — Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), addressing South Africans, arguing that immigrants are not the cause of unemployment but rather South Africans attitudes toward low-paying work.

𝐀𝐒𝐊

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Entry level jobs of a bike R600 to R700 a day can be made and almost R4200 to R4900 a week in a month it’s almost R16800 to R19600 🏍️ Then they’ll say South Africans don’t want to work or they are unemployable South Africans your being deliberately sidelined from the economy

Entry level jobs of a bike R600 to R700 a day can be made and almost R4200 to R4900 a week in a month it’s almost R16800 to R19600 🏍️ Then they’ll say South Africans don’t want to work or they are unemployable South Africans your being deliberately sidelined from the economy

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62,423 次观看 • 3 个月前

Results of the March and March. More Black South Africans are entering the farming industry as employment opportunities become available. Many are now learning crop farming skills with the goal of strengthening local food production and helping feed millions of South Africans. Investing in local agricultural skills can create jobs, build expertise, and contribute to the country’s long-term food security.

Results of the March and March. More Black South Africans are entering the farming industry as employment opportunities become available. Many are now learning crop farming skills with the goal of strengthening local food production and helping feed millions of South Africans. Investing in local agricultural skills can create jobs, build expertise, and contribute to the country’s long-term food security.

Born-in-SA🇿🇦

53,738 次观看 • 29 天前

Rentahuman (rentahuman) allows AI agents to communicate with and pay humans to do tasks in the real world. Their mission is to use AI to create new jobs and coordinate workers at global scale. The future will have more intelligence, more jobs, and more opportunities for people outside of the digital world. Congrats on the launch, Alex!

Rentahuman (rentahuman) allows AI agents to communicate with and pay humans to do tasks in the real world. Their mission is to use AI to create new jobs and coordinate workers at global scale. The future will have more intelligence, more jobs, and more opportunities for people outside of the digital world. Congrats on the launch, Alex!

Y Combinator

210,915 次观看 • 2 个月前

Sen. Eric Schmitt on jobs typically held by undocumented immigrants: "The answer here is opening those opportunities up for American workers. You just saw a food processing plant open up that had some folks who were arrested and sent away, and then you had American workers actually sign up and do those jobs. It's a myth that Americans don't want to work hard and do these jobs. Of course they will."

Sen. Eric Schmitt on jobs typically held by undocumented immigrants: "The answer here is opening those opportunities up for American workers. You just saw a food processing plant open up that had some folks who were arrested and sent away, and then you had American workers actually sign up and do those jobs. It's a myth that Americans don't want to work hard and do these jobs. Of course they will."

Aaron Rupar

912,614 次观看 • 1 年前

🚨 A SPARTAN BUSINESS OWNER: “I’D RATHER CLOSE MY BUSINESS THAN HIRE SOUTH AFRICANS”‼️ A business owner of Signarama refuses to hire South Africans after his illegal foreign workers left the country‼️ He straight up told March and March Movement members and the community: he will NOT employ locals🔥 He’d rather shut the business down than give jobs to South African citizens. This sparked a heated confrontation right outside the premises🔥 Business owners in South Africa face real pressures when hiring‼️ Immigrant workers has strong work ethic, accept lower wages, work longer hours and fill roles that are hard to staff locally‼️ Local black workers struggle with skills, are lazy and have high expectations around pay and conditions. They belong to powerful unions and rigid labour laws that makes it expensive and risky to manage underperformance, leading employers to perceive higher costs and lower flexibility‼️ In this environment, whom should you hire for your business⁉️ Run your business like a meritocracy where possible. Hire the person who shows up, works, doesn’t steal, learns and fits the team regardless of where they come from‼️

🚨 A SPARTAN BUSINESS OWNER: “I’D RATHER CLOSE MY BUSINESS THAN HIRE SOUTH AFRICANS”‼️ A business owner of Signarama refuses to hire South Africans after his illegal foreign workers left the country‼️ He straight up told March and March Movement members and the community: he will NOT employ locals🔥 He’d rather shut the business down than give jobs to South African citizens. This sparked a heated confrontation right outside the premises🔥 Business owners in South Africa face real pressures when hiring‼️ Immigrant workers has strong work ethic, accept lower wages, work longer hours and fill roles that are hard to staff locally‼️ Local black workers struggle with skills, are lazy and have high expectations around pay and conditions. They belong to powerful unions and rigid labour laws that makes it expensive and risky to manage underperformance, leading employers to perceive higher costs and lower flexibility‼️ In this environment, whom should you hire for your business⁉️ Run your business like a meritocracy where possible. Hire the person who shows up, works, doesn’t steal, learns and fits the team regardless of where they come from‼️

RaiZel

28,234 次观看 • 29 天前

“As you all know, South Africans are hunting down other Africans living their country. They are claiming other Africans are taking their jobs and women. Have they forgotten that if they are good in those job, they will be employed by the owner of the company? Instead of them to work hard, they are looking for who to hunt. In Nigeria here, our mentality here is hustle, it's very sh@meful of them. Their is one thing they always say, 'go and build your own country' the statement alone is a big sh@me to our leaders" — VeryDarkMan reacts to att@cks on other African countries in South Africa

“As you all know, South Africans are hunting down other Africans living their country. They are claiming other Africans are taking their jobs and women. Have they forgotten that if they are good in those job, they will be employed by the owner of the company? Instead of them to work hard, they are looking for who to hunt. In Nigeria here, our mentality here is hustle, it's very sh@meful of them. Their is one thing they always say, 'go and build your own country' the statement alone is a big sh@me to our leaders" — VeryDarkMan reacts to att@cks on other African countries in South Africa

CHUKS 🍥

26,646 次观看 • 3 个月前

OMG these are the workers that make sure that we have produce available anytime day or night! They work their fingers to the bone in the blistering heat for 10 to 15 hours a day and at rapid speed! These are Professionals that have grown up doing these jobs & very few can do it.

OMG these are the workers that make sure that we have produce available anytime day or night! They work their fingers to the bone in the blistering heat for 10 to 15 hours a day and at rapid speed! These are Professionals that have grown up doing these jobs & very few can do it.

Suzie rizzio

101,569 次观看 • 1 年前

OZ: New York—the number one job in the entire state is personal care services. Almost half a million people in that state are being paid to carry groceries upstairs for their parents or for their neighbor. These are jobs your family would do for you. That creates jobs in a state that's losing jobs. Here's what's bothering me, they are starting to unionize these workers.

OZ: New York—the number one job in the entire state is personal care services. Almost half a million people in that state are being paid to carry groceries upstairs for their parents or for their neighbor. These are jobs your family would do for you. That creates jobs in a state that's losing jobs. Here's what's bothering me, they are starting to unionize these workers.

Acyn

89,097 次观看 • 3 个月前

Real talk with Africans has started on the ground, streets are being cleaned while at it working together with JMPD and Amapanyaza to clean the streets of Joburg. Queen Victoria and the team are engaging Africans to make them understand the importance of going back home to face their own governments and build AFRICA. It's time for AFRICA to RISE. The revolution will start in South Africa. #WeWantOurCountryBack 🇿🇦

Real talk with Africans has started on the ground, streets are being cleaned while at it working together with JMPD and Amapanyaza to clean the streets of Joburg. Queen Victoria and the team are engaging Africans to make them understand the importance of going back home to face their own governments and build AFRICA. It's time for AFRICA to RISE. The revolution will start in South Africa. #WeWantOurCountryBack 🇿🇦

🇿🇦Make Azania Great Again 🇿🇦

50,760 次观看 • 10 个月前

The South African Immigration Crisis And How It Can Fixed With A Long Term Solution The political and economic chaos in neighbouring countries around South Africa benefits businesses and opportunistic politicians in South Africa. That is why business doesn’t condemn the abuse of human rights, rigging of elections and corrupt rule in countries like Zimbabwe, it is not in their best interest to do so because they benefit from the outcomes of failed rule in Zimbabwe. How does this work? Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate is 95%, it has the highest inflation in the world (1266% per year), hospitals have collapsed, and it is hell on earth without any social welfare system due to the continued looting of public funds by the Zimbabwean tyrant and his goons. This pushes desperate and unemployed Zimbabweans to cross the border into South Africa to find a job, healthcare, and a better life. When they cross over into South Africa, either legally or illegally, and overstay, they become vulnerable to local businesses which offer them employment paying very low wages, they take the jobs because they are desperate to survive. Businesses or farm owners in Limpopo or on wine farms in Cape Town badly underpay them, knowing they have no recourse to the law because they are illegal, something that they cannot do to a South African citizen who is protected by the law. As this happens, wages drop because cheap labour is now available, and it is not unionised so they cannot fight for any rights to fair wages. These Zimbabweans, and Africans in general, will take anything to survive and see another day, they have families to feed back in their countries of origin. This disempowers the South African worker, who cannot negotiate for higher wages because that power has been eroded and taken away by the availability of cheap labour. Businesses, in turn, tell the locals to go hang if they try to negotiate for a living wage because they have cheap labour readily available, the illegal immigrant needs the job. The locals (South Africans) get angry and fight these illegal immigrants in their communities, leading to the emergence of vigilante groups and peripheral opportunistic political actors who exploit this to gain votes from locals who feel stifled and desperate in their own country. Cosmetic, choreographed police and immigration raids are carried out to appease the restive poor and unemployed South Africans. These illegal immigrants are deported on a Monday, and by Friday, they are back. This is known as the revolving door. The border officials are so corrupt that they facilitate this revolving door because they profit from it, so you cannot currently use immigration control to deal with this on land borders where people come by road. Some illegal immigrants do not even leave South Africa because the police who arrest them will also accept bribes. In this heated emotional debate in South Africa, no real solutions are proposed because opportunistic politicians simply shout “ABAHAMBE,” get some votes and repeat the same to remain relevant in public discourse. It is funny how it is so easy to appease voters with such empty slogans that do not bring any tangible solutions, but the desperate voter is fickle, they fall for anything. What these politicians do not say, or choose to ignore, is that when these illegals go, they will return the next day. It is an inconvenient conversation for politicians because it undermines their ability to mobilise votes. The root cause of this immigration crisis lies in Zimbabwean and African politics driven by corrupt rule, the abuse of human rights, and rigged elections. President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling ANC political party publicly support the authors of this crisis in Zimbabwe, so the root cause cannot be addressed at the source now until South Africans have an honest family conversation to deal with this once and for all. Unemployed Zimbabweans feel that the ANC and its government have a moral obligation to let them come because they are supporting corrupt rule in Zimbabwe, and they are doing so publicly. This is compounded by the cowardice of Zimbabweans and the dearth of any meaningful opposition leadership in that country. Yet we have a serios crisis. So, what do we do about it to resolve the illegal immigration nightmare in South Africa, which is driving wages down and enriching businesses and the political class? Someone must put meaningful proposals on the table because this has been with us for decades, and it remains unresolved. These proposals should not be rooted in emotional discourse, but practical realities that confront South Africa. This crisis can’t be resolved through political rhetoric or “Abahambe” or any empty Pan-African slogans which ignore the ongoing realities. Real leaders provide practical solutions and don’t do it for social media retweets or likes, but for solid and long term resolutions that that will fix the crisis. We know that wages are being pushed down for South Africans due to the availability of cheap labour from illegal immigrants, and that these illegal immigrants cannot demand better wages because they cannot approach the authorities or unionise, given their illegal immigration status. The only way out, to help local South African workers who refuse to work for a pittance in restaurants, and rightly so, is to legalise those already in South Africa, so that the authorities know who they are. You implement regulations ensuring that these workers can be employed and pay taxes, but also make sure that jobs must be offered to South Africans first, they do that in Zimbabwe with the little jobs available, and that is a standard practice the world over. Where no South African is willing to take up the job, it can be offered to a documented migrant, who will be paying taxes. It will now be easier to negotiate for better wages because all workers local and migrant will now be unionised, something that big business and the political class privately do not want because it takes away the power to undermine wage negotiations and to campaign for votes respectively. Wages will rise for South African workers because everyone will then be able to negotiate for a better wage without fear of being deported. Any company caught employing illegal immigrants will be shut down immediately using laws created to deal with this problem of greedy business owners taking advantage of illegal immigration, with all the money in its bank accounts seized by the State. This will stop the employment of anyone illegal and undocumented and will provide cover for those given an amnesty for documentation. I want to make this clear, South Africans will never be able to negotiate for a living wage if there are illegal immigrants, politicians will lie to the citizens but this is the unpalatable truth. Once this is resolved, opportunistic politicians will then focus on service delivery rather than gaslighting poor South Africans with “Abahambe,” knowing that when the illegals go, they will return tomorrow morning. When illegal immigrants are documented and have bank accounts, they will begin to pay taxes and can also become entrepreneurial, creating businesses that will employ more South Africans and contribute to economic growth of South Africa. Documenting illegals and gathering their biometric data will also reduce crime because undocumented immigrants can commit crimes and evade detection, as the South African state currently does not know who they are or where they live. When they work legally or open small businesses, they will contribute to the South African fiscus, which will fund the public hospitals they use and the schools their children attend. The revolving door applies to Africans who need visas too, they are deported to Nigeria, they acquire a new identity, fly to Zimbabwe and come to South Africa by road where they pay border officials a bribe and get it in. Zimbabwe is no longer a foreign policy issue only for the South African government, it is a domestic issue as well because of illegal immigration that has brought many Zimbabweans into South Africa. It is not their fault, they are also victims of a corrupt government and each time they try to vote out the regime in Harare, the ANC publicly support rigged elections and give diplomatic cover to the Zimbabwean tyrant Emmerson Mnangagwa. Refusing to document illegals hoping that deportations will solve the problem demonstrates incompetence and ignorance to how illegal immigration works. It will continue to perpetuate low wages for South Africans and those that shout “Abahambe” know this very well. Documentation will make it easy because these migrants will see it in their best interest to unionise and fight for a better wage. You set laws that everyone covered by this amnesty cannot apply for South African citizenship as they do in the United Arab Emirates because this should only be done to clear a long running problem to help deal with border control properly without losing focus because of those already in South Africa. Ministers cannot continue to pretend to be activists when they now sit on the cabinet table, if nothing changes during the five years they are in power, they would have failed, they cannot shout “Abahambe” again in 2029. Business cannot continue to benefit from the misery of poor Zimbabweans because of the refusal to document them, it is the South African citizen that will suffer more, deportation has failed to solve this problem. It is time for strong and reflective leadership that makes tough but sustainable decisions that have a long-term ability to resolve this issue. South Africans will have another opportunity to send a strong message in 2026, they should use it and not make the politicians continue to use this dysfunctionality continue at the expense of the South African citizen and the desperate undocumented immigrants. It is easy to control the border when you have cleaned up the existing problem in the country first, it requires men and women in leadership with a spine. If you want to discuss any issues arising from this article you can e-mail me at hopewell2@post.harvard.edu

The South African Immigration Crisis And How It Can Fixed With A Long Term Solution The political and economic chaos in neighbouring countries around South Africa benefits businesses and opportunistic politicians in South Africa. That is why business doesn’t condemn the abuse of human rights, rigging of elections and corrupt rule in countries like Zimbabwe, it is not in their best interest to do so because they benefit from the outcomes of failed rule in Zimbabwe. How does this work? Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate is 95%, it has the highest inflation in the world (1266% per year), hospitals have collapsed, and it is hell on earth without any social welfare system due to the continued looting of public funds by the Zimbabwean tyrant and his goons. This pushes desperate and unemployed Zimbabweans to cross the border into South Africa to find a job, healthcare, and a better life. When they cross over into South Africa, either legally or illegally, and overstay, they become vulnerable to local businesses which offer them employment paying very low wages, they take the jobs because they are desperate to survive. Businesses or farm owners in Limpopo or on wine farms in Cape Town badly underpay them, knowing they have no recourse to the law because they are illegal, something that they cannot do to a South African citizen who is protected by the law. As this happens, wages drop because cheap labour is now available, and it is not unionised so they cannot fight for any rights to fair wages. These Zimbabweans, and Africans in general, will take anything to survive and see another day, they have families to feed back in their countries of origin. This disempowers the South African worker, who cannot negotiate for higher wages because that power has been eroded and taken away by the availability of cheap labour. Businesses, in turn, tell the locals to go hang if they try to negotiate for a living wage because they have cheap labour readily available, the illegal immigrant needs the job. The locals (South Africans) get angry and fight these illegal immigrants in their communities, leading to the emergence of vigilante groups and peripheral opportunistic political actors who exploit this to gain votes from locals who feel stifled and desperate in their own country. Cosmetic, choreographed police and immigration raids are carried out to appease the restive poor and unemployed South Africans. These illegal immigrants are deported on a Monday, and by Friday, they are back. This is known as the revolving door. The border officials are so corrupt that they facilitate this revolving door because they profit from it, so you cannot currently use immigration control to deal with this on land borders where people come by road. Some illegal immigrants do not even leave South Africa because the police who arrest them will also accept bribes. In this heated emotional debate in South Africa, no real solutions are proposed because opportunistic politicians simply shout “ABAHAMBE,” get some votes and repeat the same to remain relevant in public discourse. It is funny how it is so easy to appease voters with such empty slogans that do not bring any tangible solutions, but the desperate voter is fickle, they fall for anything. What these politicians do not say, or choose to ignore, is that when these illegals go, they will return the next day. It is an inconvenient conversation for politicians because it undermines their ability to mobilise votes. The root cause of this immigration crisis lies in Zimbabwean and African politics driven by corrupt rule, the abuse of human rights, and rigged elections. President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling ANC political party publicly support the authors of this crisis in Zimbabwe, so the root cause cannot be addressed at the source now until South Africans have an honest family conversation to deal with this once and for all. Unemployed Zimbabweans feel that the ANC and its government have a moral obligation to let them come because they are supporting corrupt rule in Zimbabwe, and they are doing so publicly. This is compounded by the cowardice of Zimbabweans and the dearth of any meaningful opposition leadership in that country. Yet we have a serios crisis. So, what do we do about it to resolve the illegal immigration nightmare in South Africa, which is driving wages down and enriching businesses and the political class? Someone must put meaningful proposals on the table because this has been with us for decades, and it remains unresolved. These proposals should not be rooted in emotional discourse, but practical realities that confront South Africa. This crisis can’t be resolved through political rhetoric or “Abahambe” or any empty Pan-African slogans which ignore the ongoing realities. Real leaders provide practical solutions and don’t do it for social media retweets or likes, but for solid and long term resolutions that that will fix the crisis. We know that wages are being pushed down for South Africans due to the availability of cheap labour from illegal immigrants, and that these illegal immigrants cannot demand better wages because they cannot approach the authorities or unionise, given their illegal immigration status. The only way out, to help local South African workers who refuse to work for a pittance in restaurants, and rightly so, is to legalise those already in South Africa, so that the authorities know who they are. You implement regulations ensuring that these workers can be employed and pay taxes, but also make sure that jobs must be offered to South Africans first, they do that in Zimbabwe with the little jobs available, and that is a standard practice the world over. Where no South African is willing to take up the job, it can be offered to a documented migrant, who will be paying taxes. It will now be easier to negotiate for better wages because all workers local and migrant will now be unionised, something that big business and the political class privately do not want because it takes away the power to undermine wage negotiations and to campaign for votes respectively. Wages will rise for South African workers because everyone will then be able to negotiate for a better wage without fear of being deported. Any company caught employing illegal immigrants will be shut down immediately using laws created to deal with this problem of greedy business owners taking advantage of illegal immigration, with all the money in its bank accounts seized by the State. This will stop the employment of anyone illegal and undocumented and will provide cover for those given an amnesty for documentation. I want to make this clear, South Africans will never be able to negotiate for a living wage if there are illegal immigrants, politicians will lie to the citizens but this is the unpalatable truth. Once this is resolved, opportunistic politicians will then focus on service delivery rather than gaslighting poor South Africans with “Abahambe,” knowing that when the illegals go, they will return tomorrow morning. When illegal immigrants are documented and have bank accounts, they will begin to pay taxes and can also become entrepreneurial, creating businesses that will employ more South Africans and contribute to economic growth of South Africa. Documenting illegals and gathering their biometric data will also reduce crime because undocumented immigrants can commit crimes and evade detection, as the South African state currently does not know who they are or where they live. When they work legally or open small businesses, they will contribute to the South African fiscus, which will fund the public hospitals they use and the schools their children attend. The revolving door applies to Africans who need visas too, they are deported to Nigeria, they acquire a new identity, fly to Zimbabwe and come to South Africa by road where they pay border officials a bribe and get it in. Zimbabwe is no longer a foreign policy issue only for the South African government, it is a domestic issue as well because of illegal immigration that has brought many Zimbabweans into South Africa. It is not their fault, they are also victims of a corrupt government and each time they try to vote out the regime in Harare, the ANC publicly support rigged elections and give diplomatic cover to the Zimbabwean tyrant Emmerson Mnangagwa. Refusing to document illegals hoping that deportations will solve the problem demonstrates incompetence and ignorance to how illegal immigration works. It will continue to perpetuate low wages for South Africans and those that shout “Abahambe” know this very well. Documentation will make it easy because these migrants will see it in their best interest to unionise and fight for a better wage. You set laws that everyone covered by this amnesty cannot apply for South African citizenship as they do in the United Arab Emirates because this should only be done to clear a long running problem to help deal with border control properly without losing focus because of those already in South Africa. Ministers cannot continue to pretend to be activists when they now sit on the cabinet table, if nothing changes during the five years they are in power, they would have failed, they cannot shout “Abahambe” again in 2029. Business cannot continue to benefit from the misery of poor Zimbabweans because of the refusal to document them, it is the South African citizen that will suffer more, deportation has failed to solve this problem. It is time for strong and reflective leadership that makes tough but sustainable decisions that have a long-term ability to resolve this issue. South Africans will have another opportunity to send a strong message in 2026, they should use it and not make the politicians continue to use this dysfunctionality continue at the expense of the South African citizen and the desperate undocumented immigrants. It is easy to control the border when you have cleaned up the existing problem in the country first, it requires men and women in leadership with a spine. If you want to discuss any issues arising from this article you can e-mail me at [email protected]

Hopewell Chin’ono

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