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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...

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I want my followers to understand that you SHOULDN’T insult South Africa as a country based on a few loud voices on social media who express racist or xenophobic views. South Africa has provided numerous opportunities to the world, particularly to Africans. If South Africans were truly xenophobic, Africans would not be living there in such large numbers today. The majority of South Africans are welcoming to all foreigners who are legally in the country and do not commit crimes. These foreigners work with South Africans, live with them, and many are married to South Africans. There is nothing to worry about in South Africa if you are there legally and not committing crimes. South African citizens have the right to express concerns about illegal foreign nationals and those who commit crimes. In Zimbabwe, illegal foreigners are often placed in dilapidated jails, and refugees are housed in camps like Tongogara in Manicaland. Generalisations are dangerous, especially when they taint and insult a silent majority that is not xenophobic. Local communities in South Africa have protected foreign nationals from a small, violent minority on many occasions. The South African government is not xenophobic either. If it were, Zimbabwean women, who make up 70% of pregnant women giving birth at Musina Hospital in Limpopo, would not be allowed there. We should be grateful for the South African hospitality we have received for decades. It is important to recognise that while xenophobia and racism may exist in certain pockets of society, these attitudes do not reflect the majority of South Africans or the country as a whole. Respecting the rights of South African citizens to voice concerns about illegal immigration and crime is important, as these are valid issues. However, it is equally important to avoid generalising these concerns to portray the entire nation as xenophobic or unwelcoming. If South Africans were truly xenophobic, parties like PA and Action SA would be in power today. The four largest political parties in South Africa have never used xenophobia as a campaign platform, which should be telling. Do not judge a nation's character based on a few loud, yet inconsequential voices on social media. They do not represent South Africa accurately. Countries are a product of their history. We shouldn’t draw comparisons with where we come from and insist that our hosts should behave as we do. If South Africans were to follow our practices in Zimbabwe, refugees would be in camps and illegal foreigners would be in jail! In Zimbabwe, refugees are not even allowed to work, if you are found working, you are thrown into jail. South Africa, on the other hand, provides equal legal rights in its courts to foreigners as it does to South Africans. These actions are not those of a xenophobic country. Zimbabwe has refused to issue documents to people of Malawian and Zimbabwean origin, and it has revoked the citizenships of many Zimbabweans whose great-grandparents came from elsewhere. In any society, you are going to have opportunistic politicians and unemployables who think that all their problems are caused by foreigners, we have them everywhere, but they shouldn’t be used to define a whole nation!

Hopewell Chin’ono

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This report by Sky News Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir is heartbreaking yet typical for both poor Zimbabweans and their counterparts in South Africa, who are pitted against each other by South African politicians who use the immigration crisis to explain the stagnant South African economy and lack of jobs for poor and uneducated South Africans. My unsolicited advice to the South African Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber is that he is dealing with a political problem, not a technical one. My advice to ordinary South Africans is that mass deportations are a waste of time and your taxpayers money. Those deported today will return tomorrow, thanks to your border officials who demand bribes, it is a revolving door, and the porous border. I can get a bus full of people without passports to come into South Africa through the border not the river or back to Zimbabwe through the border again, thanks to the corruption on the South African side at the BeitBridge border post. This issue will not go away unless and until the ANC realises that it will lose power in 2029 and local government votes in 2026 for supporting ZANUPF’s corrupt rule. As I said, the real problem lies in the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, which the ANC has nurtured for decades at the expense of its own survival and its own people. The ANC risks losing power if it continues to babysit ZANUPF, this will happen in 2029 if nothing changes and the economy continued to stagnate. You do not hear of a Zambian illegal immigrant problem in South Africa because there is no political crisis in Zambia. Poorer countries than Zimbabwe, like Malawi, Botswana, and Namibia, have never caused an illegal immigrant crisis in South Africa because they also don’t have a political crisis which manifests through thrift economies. The last time you saw an opposition South African politician at the Limpopo River addressing this issue was during election season, when Gayton McKenzie and his gang were shouting and chanting “Abahambe,” at Limpopo River. They got the votes and have never been back since—that is politicians for you. You will see them again before the 2026 local government elections, using the same gimmick, “Abahambe.” Voters enjoy being played and being made to feel good through empty promises and lies. Gayton is now in government and cabinet, the right place to bring up the Zimbabwe political crisis because it is the root cause of illegal immigration. Has he done that? So, there are three things to take away from this ongoing immigration crisis; 1. that mass deportations will never work, as they are simply another avenue for bribes; this is not a technical problem but a political one. 2. Zimbabweans must also understand that the immigration debate in South Africa is based on real concerns from ordinary South Africans, as big businesses prefer illegal Zimbabwean labour to locals because they are underpaid and not unionised as illegal immigrants. So don’t insult uneducated South Africans saying they don’t want the waiting and cleaning jobs, they do, but they can’t take them at such low wages caused by cheap labour provided by illegal immigrants. I am in South African for a week attending to business meetings, today I took a drive to Pretoria to talk to Zimbabweans who are affected by the crisis back home and are seeking leave to live in South Africa after watching the Sky News report. I saw Zimbabwean criminals working in cahoots with local criminals taking money from unsuspecting Zimbabwean immigrants who want to regularise their paperwork. This is not even corruption, they were taking money from these poor Zimbabwean people lying that they can expedite their applications and then disappearing. I saw it with my own eyes, I don’t understand how a Zimbabwean can come to South Africa and steal from another Zimbabwean who is also struggling. But they do it, and the women selling mealies outside the Home Affairs offices in Pretoria told me that they do it daily, where is the police? These criminals lie to these people that they are agents and they can take their papers inside, they even call someone pretending that you are speaking to a South African Home Affairs officials. If the South African police go there tomorrow, they will be there! But as I said, all these are symptoms of a bigger and real problem, the political crisis in Zimbabwe, unless if it is resolved, South Africans who are not yet born will still be faced with the same crisis of illegal immigration decades to come! Zimbabwe is no longer a foreign policy issue for the South African government, it is now a demestic policy issue because thes illegal immigrants need healthcare, your law says you must provide it. One unanswered question is why is the ANC doing something that is killing it slowly, the more illegal immigrants are in South Africa, the more it loses its once tight grip on power resulting in GNUs and eventually outright loss? Why?

Hopewell Chin’ono

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ZANUPF has done many terrible things, but it is important to acknowledge that there are certain good things it did too. One of them was allowing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) to operate from Zimbabwe, pass through Zimbabwe, and even use the Zimbabwe National Army to move its weapons from Zambia to South Africa. I know you are basing your statement on a short video clip which occasionally circulates online, showing Robert Mugabe being interviewed by British television. In that interview, he was asked if he would allow South Africans to fight militarily from Zimbabwe, and he replied that South Africans would fight militarily in South Africa not Zimbabwe. Anyone with a bit of common sense would understand that Mugabe could never have gone on British television and publicly said that Zimbabwe was helping South Africans militarily to fight apartheid from Zimbabwean soil. It is like expecting O. R. Tambo to go on British or American television and expose the tactics used to fight the apartheid regime. That would not have been a smart thing to do. It simply requires a bit of emotional intelligence to understand that when watching that video clip. If you are not aware of the history, read about the number of bombings that took place in Zimbabwe — bombings carried out by the apartheid South African regime in retaliation for Zimbabwe’s support of the liberation struggle in South Africa. Even your own former president Thabo Mbeki spoke about how Zimbabwe helped South Africa militarily during that period. That said, this is not an excuse to justify illegal immigration simply because Zimbabwe helped South Africa during the struggle. Zimbabwe did the right thing at the time. I am one of those who have consistently said that I am opposed to illegal immigration because it is a crime. However, that does not give anyone the right to insult or abuse Africans particularly Zimbabweans who are living legally in South Africa and have committed no crime. There are South Africans living in Zimbabwe too. One of the biggest mining companies in Zimbabwe, Zimplats, is South African-owned through Impala Platinum Holdings Limited. The bulk of Impala Platinum Holdings Limited’s earnings and revenue come from Zimbabwe not South Africa. Those are the taxes that pay grants to South Africans, it takes a bit of reading to understanding the interconnectedness. It is therefore foolish to say you don’t want Zimbabweans who are living legally in South Africa to do so. It is crazy! There are many other South African companies operating in Zimbabwe, and even your former vice-president, DD, owns a mine in Zvishavane. It is healthy for South Africans to have conversations about issues affecting their country. It is also healthy to discuss illegal immigration — that is part of responsible citizenship. But when you start going after people like Peter Ndoro, who are in South Africa legally, and others who are even naturalised South Africans, it becomes clear that the issue is no longer about immigration. It is about targeting Africans — it is Afrophobia. There are many white Zimbabweans living in South Africa, some legally and some illegally, yet I have never heard anyone mention them. Instead, the focus is always on black Africans who are in South Africa legally and contributing to society. That is not about protecting borders or enforcing immigration laws — that is about self-hate, the internalised racism that drives some Africans to turn on their fellow Africans.

Hopewell Chin’ono

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🔥🚨GRAPHIC Warning: South Africa Kill the Boer Extremism; Why is South Africa going crazy? Hate created hate and people have chose hate to express pain. The appalling chant started because of Apartheid South Africa and colonization of Aboriginal lands. I don’t agree with the approach but I study where things originate from. There are millions of South Africans that have been engaging in a culture and racial war. Unfortunately the West only get to see the highlights. The same man that is leading the chants about killing the white farmer also stated “we are Putin and Putin is us” so for my Conservatives and Democrats it appears we have a confusing narrative. Racist South Africans who are resisting Ukraine? It would be beneficial for the people of the world if we all stopped looking at every scenario based off one video and for Americans saying this is the Woke that America is heading to. If white people never went this far with black please when it was legal to do so please don’t expect black people to do the same. We aren’t in the 90s anymore, there is no way I accept that people still believe media propaganda that people do these things because they are “mindless black savages.” The only reason MSM is truly ignoring this is over their hate for Ukraine. Putin has been forgiving Africa’s debt by the billions this year. There have burials of Black children while they are alive by White South Africans while they were alive, this war that they have is truly beyond us. To the people of the world, we are all tired but we have to LOVE. This white vs. black thing is really looking more barbaric the more it continues. South Africa is simply America if we never had dreamers like Martin and Lincoln.

Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives

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President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia - where the ANC and its military wing uMkhonto weSizwe, together with their closest ally, Zapu and Zipra from Zimbabwe, were based during the liberation struggle - says xenophobic and violent anti-immigrant protests against black African migrants is wrong and must be stopped. Hichilema was echoing the same grave concerns expressed by many other African leaders, ordinary Africans and the world over the xenophobic, Afrophobic and ethnophobic attacks on foreigners by vigilante groups like tMarch and March led by Jacinta Zinhle Ngobese-Zuma who is rabidly anti-black immigrants. Her organisation was even promoting tribal prejudice and hate songs, especially against the Shangani people. As a result, the world is saying to South Africa, every country has sovereign authority to enforce its laws and deal with illegal migration, but no one has a right to treat other people - Africans in this case - in an inhuman, violent and cruel manner. South Africa, people across the continent say, must address the issue of illegal immigrants through its own constitution and the law, not vigilantism, lawlessness and barbarism. Ordinary South Africans blame immigrants for unemployment, crime, drugs, social service delivery failures, and social decay, among many other things. Vigilante groups have been taking the law into their own hands and going to clinics and schools to harass and block immigrants from accessing public services. They have been going around asking people for their IDs or passports - apartheid-style - claiming to be "cleaning up" the country, which is all unlawful. Further, they also have been invading small-to-medium enterprises, purporting to be flushing out foreigners, harassing owners and closing some of them, to justify extortion and looting at times. These ugly scenes have angered large parts of Africa and the world, while damaging the country's reputation. However, the majority of South Africans - who understand how the economy and the world work - do not support vigilante groups, xenophobia and violence. Most South Africans are not xenophobic, but have concerns about illegal immigration and its impact on their country and society. African leaders agree that illegal immigration must be addressed, but condemn the xenophobic and Afrophobic hostility and violence by anti-immigrant groups and extremists. Hichilema reminded South Africa how his country and many others sacrificed so much helping black South Africans to be free. Countries in the region supported, sheltered, fed, trained, funded and protected South African freedom fighters at a huge human life and financial cost at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle. Over one million people died and billions were lost in the region during apartheid South Africa's campaign of destabilisation which destroyed infrastructure, utilities and stopped development in other countries. Frontline States and other African countries helped South Africa to gain freedom through political, diplomatic, material, financial and logistical support. Vigilante group leaders, who thrive on propaganda, false narratives and exaggerated statistics, either ignore or don't know all that. So, Africans say South Africa does not owe these countries and their people anything, but it should never forget their sacrifices - the human life, financial and logistical costs on its behalf - when dealing with illegal immigrants and relating to blacks. In other words, they are saying South Africa must deal with illegal immigration without forgetting where it comes from, especially the black people whose history and destiny is tied to the rest of other Africans across the continent.

TheNewsHawks

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These protesters were given political cover by Jacob Zuma’s MK Party and March and March, which are effectively pursuing the same agenda. The MK Party explicitly declared that even Africans who are legally documented must leave South Africa. These protesters have simply acted on that message. They listened to their political leaders and went out to intimidate, harass and target Africans who are lawfully in the country. This is exactly what is turning South Africa into a laughingstock in the eyes of the world. It hands ammunition to its critics, including countries such as Israel and political figures like Donald Trump, who point to scenes like these and argue that South Africa is descending into lawlessness. If people claim they are protesting against illegal immigration but then use that protest to loot businesses, harass and intimidate Africans who are legally in South Africa, as has been reported in this news reports, then this has nothing to do with illegal immigration. It is xenophobia. It is Afrophobia. That is precisely what those terms mean. It is deeply disturbing to watch South Africa take this dark turn, where black Africans are persecuted simply because they are African, even when they have the legal right to live and work in the country. This is not law enforcement. It is prejudice dressed up as activism. We warned from the very beginning that this movement was being driven by hatred of black Africans, not by a genuine concern for the rule of law. We were insulted, mocked and dismissed. Today, those who doubted us need only look at what is happening. The evidence is now in plain sight.

Hopewell Chin’ono

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President Thabo Mbeki says the 2008 xenophobic violence was sparked by foreign agitators who wanted Zimbabweans to go back home to vote the ZANU PF out. He also says South Africans don’t instinctively hate foreigners but “somebody else goes and organises them”. This is very problematic because it blurs the line between a violent outbreak and generalised anti-immigrant sentiment. This muddying of waters causes a lot of anger among the people. When Mbeki says, “It was not xenophobia in the sense of ‘We hate these Africans’, it was organised”, he is focusing on the trigger of the violent outbreak while completely dismissing the fact that many communities have pre-existing and ongoing problems with foreigners. By claiming the violence was purely a political conspiracy orchestrated from above, he is presenting South Africa’s public as inherently free of prejudice and treats anti-immigrant feelings as an imported or manipulated phenomenon rather than addressing real, widespread issues that lead to anti-immigrant sentiments in everyday life. By insisting that South Africans are just okay with immigrants, he ignores the fact that whatever organisers are there cannot incite people to turn violent out of nowhere. There’s research showing that even if malign actors orchestrate a riot or march, their strategy only succeeds because they are exploiting existing desperation. Mbeki’s argument that without organisers, there would be no violence, therefore, the core problem is political orchestration, not widespread anti-immigrant sentiment is the reason why people get angry whenever he speaks on this, because they know how they feel about this issue and he comes across as gaslighting them. While listening to such statements, people are feeling genuine resentment over scarce jobs and services, and they blame immigrants for it. Being told by a former president that their anger isn’t real, but merely a trick played on them by shadow organisers, feels dismissive of their daily struggles. The point here is that there’s a difference between how people feel about immigrants daily and any occasional anti-immigrant activity, especially the violent kind. President Mbeki is conflating the two by using the fact that because most people are not violent over immigration, therefore they don’t have a problem with foreigners, which is just so obviously ridiculous.

Sizwe SikaMusi

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WATCH] On behalf of the African National Congress, I want to state that we a country of over 60 million. There are many people who come to our country and many come to our country to contribute to the wealth of our country and its progress. Many contribute positively in our country. There are people in our country who have taken it upon themselves to do things which the vast majority do not condone and this must not paint South Africans as xenophobic. Indeed we do have a challenge of illegal immigration in South Africa and it’s not a problem unique to South Africa. There are many country’s affected by this. South Africa is a signatory of the Geneva Convention and we must deal with this challenge within the perimeters of the law. We can’t deal with it with hatred. That is why government has adopted a program of action to deal with this particular challenge which the President has made a public announcement. We have called for law enforcement and calmness and follow the government’s Action Plan on dealing with illegal immigration. We have made it very clear as the ANC, we cannot and should not be associated with anything that amounts to hate crimes. In this particular instance the majority of South Africans are people of Ubuntu and humanity. Because we too would not be free without the solidarity and assistance of country’s such as Mozambique in the fight against apartheid. Many people sacrificed such as Samora Machel the President of Mozambique and many combatants died here fighting against apartheid. #ANCinMozambique #ANCatWORK

ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula

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