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Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) have existed in one form or another since 2009, meaning many Zimbabweans have lived and worked in South Africa under temporary exemption regimes for over 15 years. The current ZEP has been extended until 28 May 2027, keeping holders legally resident and economically active during... that period. However, ZEP holders remain excluded from ordinary immigration rights under South African law such as permanent residence pathways that other migrants can access, a distinction many regard as fundamentally unfair given their long-term presence and contribution. Adv Simba Chitando goes into great depth challenging the South African government to abide by its own rules on immigration. Do you think ZEP holders should have the same rights as all the other legal immigrants? Why has SA government hesitated in giving them full rights?show more

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[ON AIR] South Africa's Department of Home Affairs has clarified that holders of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP), are not eligible to automatically apply for permanent residency and must continue to remain on their current permits, which are valid until 29 May 2027. This comes after reports that Deputy Home Affairs Minister Njabulo Nzuza had indicated that ZEP holders could now apply for permanent residence, suggesting a possible shift in government policy. For more on this, Lulu Gaboo is joined on the line by Advocate Simba Chitando, a human rights lawyer who represents the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association. #AfricaUpdate #ZEP #Zimbabwe

[ON AIR] South Africa's Department of Home Affairs has clarified that holders of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP), are not eligible to automatically apply for permanent residency and must continue to remain on their current permits, which are valid until 29 May 2027. This comes after reports that Deputy Home Affairs Minister Njabulo Nzuza had indicated that ZEP holders could now apply for permanent residence, suggesting a possible shift in government policy. For more on this, Lulu Gaboo is joined on the line by Advocate Simba Chitando, a human rights lawyer who represents the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association. #AfricaUpdate #ZEP #Zimbabwe

Channel Africa

25,419 次观看 • 3 个月前

🚨 REALITY CHECK: THE QUESTION NOBODY WANTS TO ANSWER. Everyone is talking about undocumented migrants. Fair enough. But what is the long-term plan for the Zimbabweans on the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP)? There were around 120,000 ZEP holders years ago. The permit has existed since 2009 and has been extended multiple times. Over more than 15 years, many have married, had children, built careers, paid taxes and become part of South African communities. And let's be honest... after 15+ years, I'm sure that number has grown. Depending on how productive some families are, there are probably toddlers everywhere calling South Africa home. 😂👶 So what happens to those families? What happens to children born here who have known no other home? What happens to people who have spent over a decade working legally under a permit that government itself kept renewing? Years ago, Helen Zille suggested that government should regularise long-term legal permit holders instead of keeping them in permanent uncertainty. Whether you agree with that proposal or not, it's a policy question that deserves a serious debate. So yes, deal firmly with undocumented immigration according to the law. But don't mix every migrant into one basket. The conversation about undocumented migration is different from the conversation about people who have been living and working here legally for many years under permits issued and repeatedly extended by the South African government. South Africa needs clear, consistent immigration policy, not slogans.

🚨 REALITY CHECK: THE QUESTION NOBODY WANTS TO ANSWER. Everyone is talking about undocumented migrants. Fair enough. But what is the long-term plan for the Zimbabweans on the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP)? There were around 120,000 ZEP holders years ago. The permit has existed since 2009 and has been extended multiple times. Over more than 15 years, many have married, had children, built careers, paid taxes and become part of South African communities. And let's be honest... after 15+ years, I'm sure that number has grown. Depending on how productive some families are, there are probably toddlers everywhere calling South Africa home. 😂👶 So what happens to those families? What happens to children born here who have known no other home? What happens to people who have spent over a decade working legally under a permit that government itself kept renewing? Years ago, Helen Zille suggested that government should regularise long-term legal permit holders instead of keeping them in permanent uncertainty. Whether you agree with that proposal or not, it's a policy question that deserves a serious debate. So yes, deal firmly with undocumented immigration according to the law. But don't mix every migrant into one basket. The conversation about undocumented migration is different from the conversation about people who have been living and working here legally for many years under permits issued and repeatedly extended by the South African government. South Africa needs clear, consistent immigration policy, not slogans.

In A Nutshell🥜

21,182 次观看 • 1 个月前

As Zimbabwean immigrants fight to remain in South Africa and avoid going back home to face disastrous economic failure and chaos, the Zimbabwe Immigration Federation (ZIF) has welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal’s dismissal of the Ministry of Home Affairs’ challenge against an interim court order preventing arbitrary arrests and deportations of Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders. South Africa's Home Affairs had sought to overturn the interdict, but its bid was dismissed by the court, providing a temporary reprieve to thousands of permit holders. This means ZEP holders can remain legally recognised in South Africa while awaiting the outcome of the challenge against revocation of their permits by former Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi. ZIF chairperson Benjamin Kenichi said the judgement would stop arbitrary arrests and forced deportations pending finalisation of the case. The ZEP regime was introduced in 2009 to regularise the illegal status of Zimbabweans fleeing political and economic turmoil under failed Zanu PF rule. Currently there are about 180 000 Zimbabwean ZE permit holders who face uncertainty after government announced plans to end the dispensation. The ZIF’s case is split into two parts: Part A secured an interim, blocking arrests and deportations. Part B, yet to be heard, will challenge the minister’s authority to revoke permits without parliamentary oversight, arguing that long-term ZEP holders have accrued constitutional rights. After the Supreme Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Home Affairs’ challenge, the case now proceeds to Part B. Kenichi said: “This is a victory for due process and the rights of legal immigrants."

As Zimbabwean immigrants fight to remain in South Africa and avoid going back home to face disastrous economic failure and chaos, the Zimbabwe Immigration Federation (ZIF) has welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal’s dismissal of the Ministry of Home Affairs’ challenge against an interim court order preventing arbitrary arrests and deportations of Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders. South Africa's Home Affairs had sought to overturn the interdict, but its bid was dismissed by the court, providing a temporary reprieve to thousands of permit holders. This means ZEP holders can remain legally recognised in South Africa while awaiting the outcome of the challenge against revocation of their permits by former Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi. ZIF chairperson Benjamin Kenichi said the judgement would stop arbitrary arrests and forced deportations pending finalisation of the case. The ZEP regime was introduced in 2009 to regularise the illegal status of Zimbabweans fleeing political and economic turmoil under failed Zanu PF rule. Currently there are about 180 000 Zimbabwean ZE permit holders who face uncertainty after government announced plans to end the dispensation. The ZIF’s case is split into two parts: Part A secured an interim, blocking arrests and deportations. Part B, yet to be heard, will challenge the minister’s authority to revoke permits without parliamentary oversight, arguing that long-term ZEP holders have accrued constitutional rights. After the Supreme Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Home Affairs’ challenge, the case now proceeds to Part B. Kenichi said: “This is a victory for due process and the rights of legal immigrants."

TheNewsHawks

11,963 次观看 • 1 年前

Helen Zille, the Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance has expressed opposition to expelling Zimbabweans with Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) by taking the permit away. She said their stay in South Africa must be regularised because they have contributed immensely to the South African economy. She also urged the South African government to give illegal immigrants a chance to regularise their status in South Africa. Zille further suggested that South Africa should attract foreign skilled workers and foreign entrepreneurs with financial means to start businesses in South Africa. She emphasised that resolving the immigration situation is a complex and time-consuming process, and that a comprehensive, long-term solution is needed not populist demagoguery statements. Zille added that the Zimbabweans she knows in South Africa are highly skilled and are contributing a lot to the South African economy.

Helen Zille, the Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance has expressed opposition to expelling Zimbabweans with Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) by taking the permit away. She said their stay in South Africa must be regularised because they have contributed immensely to the South African economy. She also urged the South African government to give illegal immigrants a chance to regularise their status in South Africa. Zille further suggested that South Africa should attract foreign skilled workers and foreign entrepreneurs with financial means to start businesses in South Africa. She emphasised that resolving the immigration situation is a complex and time-consuming process, and that a comprehensive, long-term solution is needed not populist demagoguery statements. Zille added that the Zimbabweans she knows in South Africa are highly skilled and are contributing a lot to the South African economy.

Hopewell Chin’ono

398,698 次观看 • 2 年前

NEW🚨 ZEP holders who have been in South Africa for over 5 years can now apply for other visas including permanent residency, work visas and more 🇿🇦 This is a major step toward regularising thousands of Zimbabweans who have been living, working and contributing to the country for years. Interesting how the words of Helen Zille are now coming full circle… she once said "it’s only fair that Zimbabweans on ZEP permits be regularised, and that reality is slowly UNFOLDING" Sometimes policy takes time, but fairness eventually catches up

NEW🚨 ZEP holders who have been in South Africa for over 5 years can now apply for other visas including permanent residency, work visas and more 🇿🇦 This is a major step toward regularising thousands of Zimbabweans who have been living, working and contributing to the country for years. Interesting how the words of Helen Zille are now coming full circle… she once said "it’s only fair that Zimbabweans on ZEP permits be regularised, and that reality is slowly UNFOLDING" Sometimes policy takes time, but fairness eventually catches up

In A Nutshell🥜

24,233 次观看 • 4 个月前

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!

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

234,487 次观看 • 2 年前

𝗗𝗨𝗗𝗨𝗟𝗔, 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦, 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗦 & 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗦. The Gauteng High Court has ordered that operation Dudula and by deduction all South African vigilante groups, individuals and even the police must stop targeting, abusing, harassing and intimidating foreigners or threatening them with violence as this violates their human rights -their right to freedom, peace and dignity. Now the South African government and police must enforce the law or be in contempt of court. And if South African law enforcement and hospital staff refuse to follow the law, this issue can now be taken to international courts like the ICJ by the nation’s whose citizens are being abused and not protected by the South African government. For a while now allegations have been made that the ANC and senior government officials are funding these vigilante groups in South Africa.

𝗗𝗨𝗗𝗨𝗟𝗔, 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦, 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗦 & 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗦. The Gauteng High Court has ordered that operation Dudula and by deduction all South African vigilante groups, individuals and even the police must stop targeting, abusing, harassing and intimidating foreigners or threatening them with violence as this violates their human rights -their right to freedom, peace and dignity. Now the South African government and police must enforce the law or be in contempt of court. And if South African law enforcement and hospital staff refuse to follow the law, this issue can now be taken to international courts like the ICJ by the nation’s whose citizens are being abused and not protected by the South African government. For a while now allegations have been made that the ANC and senior government officials are funding these vigilante groups in South Africa.

Rutendo Matinyarare

22,623 次观看 • 9 个月前

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.

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

181,643 次观看 • 9 个月前

As we celebrate and reflect on Africa Day today, it is important to qualify the intervention by South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola. What he says is correct, the issue of immigration in South Africa is indeed a crisis, and instead of focusing on peripheral issues, attention should be directed at the root causes, the push factors driving African migrants from countries such as Zimbabwe and Mozambique into South Africa, both legally and illegally. The fact of the matter is that we all know what the problem is: misgovernance. And the African National Congress, which has governed South Africa since 1994, is fully aware of this reality. Yet it has continued politically supporting the regimes in the region that have contributed to creating this crisis inside South Africa itself. We all know that ZANUPF rigs elections. We all know that it presides over a deeply corrupt system. We also know that some within the ANC benefit politically and materially from relationships with ZANUPF. So while Minister Lamola’s comments sound correct in principle, many people across the region have become sceptical because statements are repeatedly made, yet very little changes in practice. As we saw during the recent Southern African Development Community (SADC) foreign ministers’ meeting held in South Africa, Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister, Dr Amon Murwira, was effectively in denial, insisting there is no immigration crisis affecting Southern Africa or South Africa. As long as leaders continue issuing statements without confronting the underlying governance failures driving migration, this crisis will persist. This is fundamentally a crisis of failed leadership. That is why other parts of Africa, and indeed other regions of the world, often look at Southern Africa with disbelief. We know what the problem is, and we know what needs to be done, yet we refuse to act. Worse still, regional leaders continue defending and embracing the very political systems that are producing the collapse, namely ZANUPF in Zimbabwe and FRELIMO in Mozambique, even after disputed elections, corruption scandals, and institutional decay. It is not rocket science why Zimbabweans cross into South Africa to seek medical treatment. It is not rocket science why a significant number of women giving birth at Musina Hospital are Zimbabwean. It is because Zimbabwe’s public healthcare system has collapsed under corruption and decades of misgovernance. Zimbabwe’s largest public hospital still relies on a single maternity theatre built in 1977. The country’s public health sector has, for years, lacked a functioning radiotherapy cancer treatment machine for the entire nation. Under such conditions, desperate citizens will inevitably cross borders, legally and illegally, in search of survival and dignity. Tragically, it is ordinary poor Africans who now become pawns in political battles. Politicians exploit immigration to whip up emotions and win votes, while many of those same political actors continue protecting, legitimising, and enabling the governance failures that created the migration crisis in the first place. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) issued a scathing report on Zimbabwe’s 2023 election. Yet the first president to go and celebrate that disputed victory was South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. It therefore does not make sense for South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, to correctly speak about the root causes of the immigration crisis while his own government continues supporting and legitimising the very systems creating those root causes. After the SADC report was released, the Secretary-General of the African National Congress openly declared “Viva Mnangagwa.” That kind of duplicitous behaviour does not build confidence among citizens in South Africa or across Southern Africa.

As we celebrate and reflect on Africa Day today, it is important to qualify the intervention by South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola. What he says is correct, the issue of immigration in South Africa is indeed a crisis, and instead of focusing on peripheral issues, attention should be directed at the root causes, the push factors driving African migrants from countries such as Zimbabwe and Mozambique into South Africa, both legally and illegally. The fact of the matter is that we all know what the problem is: misgovernance. And the African National Congress, which has governed South Africa since 1994, is fully aware of this reality. Yet it has continued politically supporting the regimes in the region that have contributed to creating this crisis inside South Africa itself. We all know that ZANUPF rigs elections. We all know that it presides over a deeply corrupt system. We also know that some within the ANC benefit politically and materially from relationships with ZANUPF. So while Minister Lamola’s comments sound correct in principle, many people across the region have become sceptical because statements are repeatedly made, yet very little changes in practice. As we saw during the recent Southern African Development Community (SADC) foreign ministers’ meeting held in South Africa, Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister, Dr Amon Murwira, was effectively in denial, insisting there is no immigration crisis affecting Southern Africa or South Africa. As long as leaders continue issuing statements without confronting the underlying governance failures driving migration, this crisis will persist. This is fundamentally a crisis of failed leadership. That is why other parts of Africa, and indeed other regions of the world, often look at Southern Africa with disbelief. We know what the problem is, and we know what needs to be done, yet we refuse to act. Worse still, regional leaders continue defending and embracing the very political systems that are producing the collapse, namely ZANUPF in Zimbabwe and FRELIMO in Mozambique, even after disputed elections, corruption scandals, and institutional decay. It is not rocket science why Zimbabweans cross into South Africa to seek medical treatment. It is not rocket science why a significant number of women giving birth at Musina Hospital are Zimbabwean. It is because Zimbabwe’s public healthcare system has collapsed under corruption and decades of misgovernance. Zimbabwe’s largest public hospital still relies on a single maternity theatre built in 1977. The country’s public health sector has, for years, lacked a functioning radiotherapy cancer treatment machine for the entire nation. Under such conditions, desperate citizens will inevitably cross borders, legally and illegally, in search of survival and dignity. Tragically, it is ordinary poor Africans who now become pawns in political battles. Politicians exploit immigration to whip up emotions and win votes, while many of those same political actors continue protecting, legitimising, and enabling the governance failures that created the migration crisis in the first place. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) issued a scathing report on Zimbabwe’s 2023 election. Yet the first president to go and celebrate that disputed victory was South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. It therefore does not make sense for South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, to correctly speak about the root causes of the immigration crisis while his own government continues supporting and legitimising the very systems creating those root causes. After the SADC report was released, the Secretary-General of the African National Congress openly declared “Viva Mnangagwa.” That kind of duplicitous behaviour does not build confidence among citizens in South Africa or across Southern Africa.

Hopewell Chin’ono

27,308 次观看 • 2 个月前

#ZimbabweansWadeThroughLimpopo #AuthoritiesJustifyImmigrantsInflux Zimbabweans form a human chain - a line of people holding hands, shoulders or locking arms - as they brave the deeply flooded and crocodile-infested Limpopo River in the southern part of the country to illegally cross into South Africa in a desperate search for survival - fleeing economic and social problems back home. A once-vibrant and thriving economy only second to South Africa's in sub-Saharan Africa, Zimbabwe has been destroyed and reduced to rubble by the ruling Zanu PF, in power for 45 years, which has impoverished millions of its own people in the process. Disastrous leadership failures, corruption and incompetence have reduced Zimbabweans to scavengers and economic refugees scattered all over the region and the world. Instead of dealing with the push factors back home - leadership, governance and policy failures that have created a sea of poverty and desperation, Zimbabwean officials neglect, ignore or justify such things that are dehumanising their people. In an interview with SABC reporter Clement Manyathela on the programme “Face The Nation”, Zimbabwean ambassador to South Africa David Hamadziripi - who lives in comfort at taxpayers' cost - shamelessly peddled the cliched lame justification for illegal immigration, saying the influx of Zimbabweans trekking to South Africa is not a new trend; a false argument without proper context and which also ignores current events and facts on Zimbabwe's man-made economic crisis and poverty. Asked about the Zimbabwean government’s responsibility to its own people and regarding the influx of its citizens seeking jobs, healthcare, and improved living conditions in South Africa, Hamadziripi said: "Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa is not a recent phenomenon. It is historical and we can go way back many years and we can see that there has been migration from Zimbabwe into South Africa. Zimbabwe is not the only country with nationals who come to South Africa. The reasons why they come to South Africa are varied because migration intrinsically is an individual decision. We know even those countries considered the best countries to live in, you have people migrating from those countries." This is the feeble explanation Zimbabwean authorities always give when asked about illegal immigrants in South Africa, a consequence of their misrule and failure at home. 🔴Video: Limpopo Current Affairs

#ZimbabweansWadeThroughLimpopo #AuthoritiesJustifyImmigrantsInflux Zimbabweans form a human chain - a line of people holding hands, shoulders or locking arms - as they brave the deeply flooded and crocodile-infested Limpopo River in the southern part of the country to illegally cross into South Africa in a desperate search for survival - fleeing economic and social problems back home. A once-vibrant and thriving economy only second to South Africa's in sub-Saharan Africa, Zimbabwe has been destroyed and reduced to rubble by the ruling Zanu PF, in power for 45 years, which has impoverished millions of its own people in the process. Disastrous leadership failures, corruption and incompetence have reduced Zimbabweans to scavengers and economic refugees scattered all over the region and the world. Instead of dealing with the push factors back home - leadership, governance and policy failures that have created a sea of poverty and desperation, Zimbabwean officials neglect, ignore or justify such things that are dehumanising their people. In an interview with SABC reporter Clement Manyathela on the programme “Face The Nation”, Zimbabwean ambassador to South Africa David Hamadziripi - who lives in comfort at taxpayers' cost - shamelessly peddled the cliched lame justification for illegal immigration, saying the influx of Zimbabweans trekking to South Africa is not a new trend; a false argument without proper context and which also ignores current events and facts on Zimbabwe's man-made economic crisis and poverty. Asked about the Zimbabwean government’s responsibility to its own people and regarding the influx of its citizens seeking jobs, healthcare, and improved living conditions in South Africa, Hamadziripi said: "Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa is not a recent phenomenon. It is historical and we can go way back many years and we can see that there has been migration from Zimbabwe into South Africa. Zimbabwe is not the only country with nationals who come to South Africa. The reasons why they come to South Africa are varied because migration intrinsically is an individual decision. We know even those countries considered the best countries to live in, you have people migrating from those countries." This is the feeble explanation Zimbabwean authorities always give when asked about illegal immigrants in South Africa, a consequence of their misrule and failure at home. 🔴Video: Limpopo Current Affairs

TheNewsHawks

18,936 次观看 • 1 年前

🚨WHY I THINK CHIDIMMA WILL WIN THIS CASE Here's the legal twist many people are missing. Even if Home Affairs succeeds in withdrawing Chidimma Adetshina's current citizenship status as things stand because it was linked to her mother's status, immigration lawyers point out that the Citizenship Act may still give her an independent path back to South African citizenship. If she can prove she was born in South Africa, that her birth was properly registered, and that she lived in South Africa until the age of 18, the law may allow her to apply for citizenship regardless of what her parents allegedly did. In other words, the alleged conduct of her parents does not automatically determine her own legal position. That doesn't mean she has already won. It means she may have a legal avenue that Home Affairs and, if necessary, the courts will have to consider. This case could end up becoming one of the most important citizenship rulings in recent South African legal history. ⚖️🇿🇦

🚨WHY I THINK CHIDIMMA WILL WIN THIS CASE Here's the legal twist many people are missing. Even if Home Affairs succeeds in withdrawing Chidimma Adetshina's current citizenship status as things stand because it was linked to her mother's status, immigration lawyers point out that the Citizenship Act may still give her an independent path back to South African citizenship. If she can prove she was born in South Africa, that her birth was properly registered, and that she lived in South Africa until the age of 18, the law may allow her to apply for citizenship regardless of what her parents allegedly did. In other words, the alleged conduct of her parents does not automatically determine her own legal position. That doesn't mean she has already won. It means she may have a legal avenue that Home Affairs and, if necessary, the courts will have to consider. This case could end up becoming one of the most important citizenship rulings in recent South African legal history. ⚖️🇿🇦

In A Nutshell🥜

317,662 次观看 • 25 天前

I have seen many of my followers on social media asking why Ghana and Nigeria have been vocal about the xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Africans living in South Africa, while Zimbabwe and Mozambique have remained largely silent. The answer, in my view, lies in politics. For years, the South African government and, in particular, the African National Congress (ANC), have consistently defended ZANUPF in Zimbabwe and FRELIMO in Mozambique. They have defended disputed and rigged elections, stood by those governments during periods of political repression, and maintained close political relationships despite repeated allegations of corruption, human rights abuses and democratic backsliding. A good example is 2008, when then South African President Thabo Mbeki insisted there was “no crisis” in Zimbabwe, despite widespread political violence and hundreds of Zimbabweans being butchered following the disputed election in which Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC had outpolled ZANUPF in the first round. South Africa’s policy of “quiet diplomacy” was widely criticised for shielding the Zimbabwean government from stronger regional pressure. Against that background, it is difficult to expect Harare or Maputo to publicly confront the ANC-led government over the treatment of their citizens in South Africa. The political relationships between those governing parties are deep and longstanding. Criticising Pretoria would inevitably strain alliances that have existed for decades and bring to the fore the root causes of illegal immigration in South Africa. Ghana and Nigeria occupy a different political position. They do not depend on the ANC for political legitimacy or regional backing in the same way. Both countries have experienced regular transfers of power through competitive elections, and neither government relies on South Africa to validate its democratic credentials. As a result, Accra and Abuja have greater political space to speak out when they believe their citizens are being mistreated abroad. That difference helps explain why the strongest official reactions have come from Ghana and Nigeria, while Harare and Maputo have been far more restrained. There is also another important reality. The overwhelming majority of migrants from elsewhere in Africa living in South Africa come from neighbouring countries, particularly Zimbabwe and Mozambique. That geographical reality means those two countries are central to any discussion about migration into South Africa. Their governments know this, which makes their diplomatic position even more complicated. As I have argued before, South Africa’s immigration challenges are genuine and deserve serious policy solutions. However, genuine domestic problems can also be exploited by external actors seeking to deepen divisions or damage South Africa’s international standing as Israel is now doing. Recognising that possibility does not mean denying that the underlying challenges are real. It means understanding that geopolitical actors often exploit existing fault lines rather than creating them from scratch. Whether one agrees with my analysis or not, I hope this explains why the official responses from Accra and Abuja have been much louder than those from Harare and Maputo. Back home in Southern Africa, Botswana has also been very vocal against xenophobia and Afrophobia. Its President has publicly condemned attacks on African nationals living in South Africa. The ruling party in Botswana even invited South African opposition leader Julius Malema, who has consistently spoken out against Afrophobia and the targeting of fellow Africans, to address its annual conference this past week. Botswana is able to do this because it is a functioning democracy. Unlike Zimbabwe and Mozambique, it has never depended on South Africa or the African National Congress (ANC) for political backing after disputed or rigged elections, allegations of electoral manipulation or the repression of its own citizens. It therefore has far greater diplomatic freedom to criticise South Africa when it believes fellow Africans are being mistreated. That is why Botswana, like Ghana and Nigeria, has been prepared to speak out against what it perceives as black-on-black violence directed at African migrants. By contrast, the governments in Harare and Maputo have remained largely silent, reflecting the long-standing political relationships between their ruling parties and the ANC, which publicly backs rigged elections. None of this requires a rocket scientist to understand. It simply requires an appreciation of how regional politics, diplomatic alliances and political interests shape the public positions that governments take. Those who are prepared to look beyond the headlines and understand the underlying dynamics will appreciate the point. Those who focus only on the symptoms, while ignoring the political relationships and incentives that produce them, will continue to wander aimlessly through the political wilderness.

I have seen many of my followers on social media asking why Ghana and Nigeria have been vocal about the xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Africans living in South Africa, while Zimbabwe and Mozambique have remained largely silent. The answer, in my view, lies in politics. For years, the South African government and, in particular, the African National Congress (ANC), have consistently defended ZANUPF in Zimbabwe and FRELIMO in Mozambique. They have defended disputed and rigged elections, stood by those governments during periods of political repression, and maintained close political relationships despite repeated allegations of corruption, human rights abuses and democratic backsliding. A good example is 2008, when then South African President Thabo Mbeki insisted there was “no crisis” in Zimbabwe, despite widespread political violence and hundreds of Zimbabweans being butchered following the disputed election in which Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC had outpolled ZANUPF in the first round. South Africa’s policy of “quiet diplomacy” was widely criticised for shielding the Zimbabwean government from stronger regional pressure. Against that background, it is difficult to expect Harare or Maputo to publicly confront the ANC-led government over the treatment of their citizens in South Africa. The political relationships between those governing parties are deep and longstanding. Criticising Pretoria would inevitably strain alliances that have existed for decades and bring to the fore the root causes of illegal immigration in South Africa. Ghana and Nigeria occupy a different political position. They do not depend on the ANC for political legitimacy or regional backing in the same way. Both countries have experienced regular transfers of power through competitive elections, and neither government relies on South Africa to validate its democratic credentials. As a result, Accra and Abuja have greater political space to speak out when they believe their citizens are being mistreated abroad. That difference helps explain why the strongest official reactions have come from Ghana and Nigeria, while Harare and Maputo have been far more restrained. There is also another important reality. The overwhelming majority of migrants from elsewhere in Africa living in South Africa come from neighbouring countries, particularly Zimbabwe and Mozambique. That geographical reality means those two countries are central to any discussion about migration into South Africa. Their governments know this, which makes their diplomatic position even more complicated. As I have argued before, South Africa’s immigration challenges are genuine and deserve serious policy solutions. However, genuine domestic problems can also be exploited by external actors seeking to deepen divisions or damage South Africa’s international standing as Israel is now doing. Recognising that possibility does not mean denying that the underlying challenges are real. It means understanding that geopolitical actors often exploit existing fault lines rather than creating them from scratch. Whether one agrees with my analysis or not, I hope this explains why the official responses from Accra and Abuja have been much louder than those from Harare and Maputo. Back home in Southern Africa, Botswana has also been very vocal against xenophobia and Afrophobia. Its President has publicly condemned attacks on African nationals living in South Africa. The ruling party in Botswana even invited South African opposition leader Julius Malema, who has consistently spoken out against Afrophobia and the targeting of fellow Africans, to address its annual conference this past week. Botswana is able to do this because it is a functioning democracy. Unlike Zimbabwe and Mozambique, it has never depended on South Africa or the African National Congress (ANC) for political backing after disputed or rigged elections, allegations of electoral manipulation or the repression of its own citizens. It therefore has far greater diplomatic freedom to criticise South Africa when it believes fellow Africans are being mistreated. That is why Botswana, like Ghana and Nigeria, has been prepared to speak out against what it perceives as black-on-black violence directed at African migrants. By contrast, the governments in Harare and Maputo have remained largely silent, reflecting the long-standing political relationships between their ruling parties and the ANC, which publicly backs rigged elections. None of this requires a rocket scientist to understand. It simply requires an appreciation of how regional politics, diplomatic alliances and political interests shape the public positions that governments take. Those who are prepared to look beyond the headlines and understand the underlying dynamics will appreciate the point. Those who focus only on the symptoms, while ignoring the political relationships and incentives that produce them, will continue to wander aimlessly through the political wilderness.

Hopewell Chin’ono

93,523 次观看 • 19 天前

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?

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

71,397 次观看 • 1 年前

#ZimSARelationsSpoiledByZanuPFMisrule Despite the current tensions due to competition for job opportunities and social services - resources - South Africans and Zimbabweans have a long history of cross-border healthy cooperation and tensions, with Zimbabweans migrating to South Africa since colonial times, a trend that intensified after 2000; and prominent South Africans living in Zimbabwe. Before Zimbabwe's collapse after 2000, mainly due to leadership, governance and policy failures, the movement across the border was both ways, although the down south flow was heavier. People from the two countries worked and lived together in harmony for decades before the economic collapse north of the Limpopo River. The flow of labour has continued, particularly with the Zimbabwean crisis in the 2000s, leading to an influx of Zimbabwean migrants to South Africa, courtesy of the late former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF's misrule. This is what has led to millions of Zimbabwean migrating into South Africa, the regional economic powerhouse. The economies of the two countries have been closely intertwined historically and structurally, with a history of both cooperation and tension. Besides, Zimbabwe has always had deep political; economic, military, ideological, and cultural relations since the 19th century. There were massive movements or migration across current borders since the Mfecane period, then by colonial settlers and later ordinary people, creating a relationship of cooperation and conflictual tensions. The migration of Ndebele King Mzilikazi Khumalo and later Cecil John Rhodes from South Africa into Zimbabwe being historic highlights. Later, there were many other prominent examples, including those of Rhodesian ministers, judges, nationalists, businesspersons, sportspeople and ordinary citizens moving across the border. Now even celebrities. It was not one way. South Africans have a history of living and working in Zimbabwe, as long-term residents, including the Afrikaner community and those who moved as exiles during apartheid, and as temporary migrants seeking work opportunities. But more recently, millions of Zimbabweans moved to South Africa due economic hardship. When it was Rhodesia, Zimbabwe attracted South Africans from all walks of life, including politicians, businesspersons, professionals, sportspeople, and artists, among others. For instance, Chief Albert Luthuli, a prominent ANC leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was born in Solusi, near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, although he has South African roots. ANC Stalwart Thomas Nkobi was from Zimbabwe. Rivonia trialist Denis Goldberg married Edelgard Nkobi, the German-born widow of Zenzo Nkobi, son of ANC Treasurer-General, Thomas Nkobi. South Africans lived, fought and died in Zimbabwe. Among the recent 49 remains of South Africans to be repatriated from Zimbabwe and Zambia were Advocate Duma Nokwe, Edwin Letsholo Makoti, Florence Mophosho and Basil February. Other prominent South Africans who lived in Zimbabwe were Joe Gqabi, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Moeletso Mbeki, Jacob Zuma's twins Duduzane and Duduzile, Caiphus Semenya, Letta Mbulu and First Lady Dr Tshepo Motsepe (who is on this video). Similarly, there there were South African-born Afrikaners who served as cabinet ministers in Rhodesia, for instance Rowan Cronjé and P. K. van der Byl. Top Zimbabwean businessmen like the late John Bredenkamp and Billy Rautenbach had South African links. Even sportspeople moved across, for example Bruce Grobbelaar was born in Durban but moved to Zimbabwe, played for Highlanders and later Liverpool. He is the best and most successful goalkeeper Africa has ever producer. One area deserves attention, the judiciary. Several South African-born judges served in Rhodesia, including the first three judges of the High Court: Sir Murray Bisset, Vincent, and William Musgrave Hopley. Zimbabweans and South Africans worked well before. So what has changed now: Zimbabwe's collapse.

#ZimSARelationsSpoiledByZanuPFMisrule Despite the current tensions due to competition for job opportunities and social services - resources - South Africans and Zimbabweans have a long history of cross-border healthy cooperation and tensions, with Zimbabweans migrating to South Africa since colonial times, a trend that intensified after 2000; and prominent South Africans living in Zimbabwe. Before Zimbabwe's collapse after 2000, mainly due to leadership, governance and policy failures, the movement across the border was both ways, although the down south flow was heavier. People from the two countries worked and lived together in harmony for decades before the economic collapse north of the Limpopo River. The flow of labour has continued, particularly with the Zimbabwean crisis in the 2000s, leading to an influx of Zimbabwean migrants to South Africa, courtesy of the late former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF's misrule. This is what has led to millions of Zimbabwean migrating into South Africa, the regional economic powerhouse. The economies of the two countries have been closely intertwined historically and structurally, with a history of both cooperation and tension. Besides, Zimbabwe has always had deep political; economic, military, ideological, and cultural relations since the 19th century. There were massive movements or migration across current borders since the Mfecane period, then by colonial settlers and later ordinary people, creating a relationship of cooperation and conflictual tensions. The migration of Ndebele King Mzilikazi Khumalo and later Cecil John Rhodes from South Africa into Zimbabwe being historic highlights. Later, there were many other prominent examples, including those of Rhodesian ministers, judges, nationalists, businesspersons, sportspeople and ordinary citizens moving across the border. Now even celebrities. It was not one way. South Africans have a history of living and working in Zimbabwe, as long-term residents, including the Afrikaner community and those who moved as exiles during apartheid, and as temporary migrants seeking work opportunities. But more recently, millions of Zimbabweans moved to South Africa due economic hardship. When it was Rhodesia, Zimbabwe attracted South Africans from all walks of life, including politicians, businesspersons, professionals, sportspeople, and artists, among others. For instance, Chief Albert Luthuli, a prominent ANC leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was born in Solusi, near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, although he has South African roots. ANC Stalwart Thomas Nkobi was from Zimbabwe. Rivonia trialist Denis Goldberg married Edelgard Nkobi, the German-born widow of Zenzo Nkobi, son of ANC Treasurer-General, Thomas Nkobi. South Africans lived, fought and died in Zimbabwe. Among the recent 49 remains of South Africans to be repatriated from Zimbabwe and Zambia were Advocate Duma Nokwe, Edwin Letsholo Makoti, Florence Mophosho and Basil February. Other prominent South Africans who lived in Zimbabwe were Joe Gqabi, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Moeletso Mbeki, Jacob Zuma's twins Duduzane and Duduzile, Caiphus Semenya, Letta Mbulu and First Lady Dr Tshepo Motsepe (who is on this video). Similarly, there there were South African-born Afrikaners who served as cabinet ministers in Rhodesia, for instance Rowan Cronjé and P. K. van der Byl. Top Zimbabwean businessmen like the late John Bredenkamp and Billy Rautenbach had South African links. Even sportspeople moved across, for example Bruce Grobbelaar was born in Durban but moved to Zimbabwe, played for Highlanders and later Liverpool. He is the best and most successful goalkeeper Africa has ever producer. One area deserves attention, the judiciary. Several South African-born judges served in Rhodesia, including the first three judges of the High Court: Sir Murray Bisset, Vincent, and William Musgrave Hopley. Zimbabweans and South Africans worked well before. So what has changed now: Zimbabwe's collapse.

TheNewsHawks

44,170 次观看 • 9 个月前

THE GREATEST THING I DID WAS FOCUS MY CONSULTANCY ON ZIMBABWE AND AFRICA WHEN SA CLOSED ITS DOORS. Since 2019, I began to focus my marketing business on Zimbabwe and Africa after South Africa started closing off business opportunities to African investors. What I can tell you is that Zimbabwe and Africa have been good to me. As I say this, it’s now June and most people have been focused on CAB3. But what have we done with the vast opportunities in Zimbabwe? With so many opportunities coming out of Zimbabwe, I have to ask myself honestly: was my criticism of the government a fair assessment? Is Zimbabwe doing well because sanctions are gone, or because the Mnangagwa government has done well or both?

THE GREATEST THING I DID WAS FOCUS MY CONSULTANCY ON ZIMBABWE AND AFRICA WHEN SA CLOSED ITS DOORS. Since 2019, I began to focus my marketing business on Zimbabwe and Africa after South Africa started closing off business opportunities to African investors. What I can tell you is that Zimbabwe and Africa have been good to me. As I say this, it’s now June and most people have been focused on CAB3. But what have we done with the vast opportunities in Zimbabwe? With so many opportunities coming out of Zimbabwe, I have to ask myself honestly: was my criticism of the government a fair assessment? Is Zimbabwe doing well because sanctions are gone, or because the Mnangagwa government has done well or both?

Rutendo Matinyarare

255,284 次观看 • 1 个月前

😭🚨 20 Years Later..'Go Back Home'? 🤔This man Sounds South African Imagine living in South Africa for over 20 years. You speak the local language fluently. Your children may have grown up here. You've built friendships, paid taxes, run a business, and contributed to the economy. Then one day someone simply tells you: "Go back to Malawi." Whether someone agrees or disagrees with immigration policies, it's worth asking difficult questions. Should the focus be on whether a person is legally documented and obeying the law, or only on where they were born? Immigration is a complex issue, and every country has the right to enforce its laws. At the same time, people who have lived and worked legally in a country for decades often become part of the communities around them. What do you think? 👇

😭🚨 20 Years Later..'Go Back Home'? 🤔This man Sounds South African Imagine living in South Africa for over 20 years. You speak the local language fluently. Your children may have grown up here. You've built friendships, paid taxes, run a business, and contributed to the economy. Then one day someone simply tells you: "Go back to Malawi." Whether someone agrees or disagrees with immigration policies, it's worth asking difficult questions. Should the focus be on whether a person is legally documented and obeying the law, or only on where they were born? Immigration is a complex issue, and every country has the right to enforce its laws. At the same time, people who have lived and worked legally in a country for decades often become part of the communities around them. What do you think? 👇

In A Nutshell🥜

72,881 次观看 • 1 个月前

🚨THE LEGAL TWIST MOST PEOPLE ARE MISSING🚨 Many people assume that if Chidimma Adetshina's mother loses her South African citizenship, then Chidimma automatically loses every chance of remaining South African. That isn't necessarily how the law works. According to immigration lawyers, the South African Citizenship Act contains a provision that may allow someone born in South Africa to apply for citizenship regardless of their parents' status or alleged conduct, provided they can SHOW or PROVE they were born in South Africa, their birth was properly registered, and they lived in the country until the age of 18. If she satisfies those legal requirements, she may have an independent basis to seek South African citizenship. Ultimately, this case is likely to turn on the interpretation of the Citizenship Act and the evidence presented, not simply on what her parents allegedly did. If the court accepts that she qualifies under those provisions, her legal position could be different from her mother's. This is why the case is attracting so much attention: it may clarify how South African citizenship law applies to children whose parents' status is later challenged.

🚨THE LEGAL TWIST MOST PEOPLE ARE MISSING🚨 Many people assume that if Chidimma Adetshina's mother loses her South African citizenship, then Chidimma automatically loses every chance of remaining South African. That isn't necessarily how the law works. According to immigration lawyers, the South African Citizenship Act contains a provision that may allow someone born in South Africa to apply for citizenship regardless of their parents' status or alleged conduct, provided they can SHOW or PROVE they were born in South Africa, their birth was properly registered, and they lived in the country until the age of 18. If she satisfies those legal requirements, she may have an independent basis to seek South African citizenship. Ultimately, this case is likely to turn on the interpretation of the Citizenship Act and the evidence presented, not simply on what her parents allegedly did. If the court accepts that she qualifies under those provisions, her legal position could be different from her mother's. This is why the case is attracting so much attention: it may clarify how South African citizenship law applies to children whose parents' status is later challenged.

In A Nutshell🥜

29,188 次观看 • 25 天前

Apparently, Diversity Is Fine When the U.S. Needs Soldiers Despite aggressively pushing people of African descent and other immigrants out of U.S. government jobs and deporting many from the country under the banner of anti-DEI policies, the same system is now turning to Africans because it needs soldiers to fight its wars, particularly in the Gulf region. Following the February 28 strike on Iran, recruitment efforts targeting Africans have reportedly intensified. Black recruiters are being deployed to African communities to encourage enlistment, framing it as an opportunity. African and Caribbean immigrants in the U.S., including visa holders, are also being enticed with promises of citizenship and relief from aggressive immigration enforcement. In essence, immigrants are being asked to risk their lives in conflicts that are not their own, with the possibility of earning the right to remain in the country. If they refuse, they face the threat of deportation and continued pressure from immigration authorities.

Apparently, Diversity Is Fine When the U.S. Needs Soldiers Despite aggressively pushing people of African descent and other immigrants out of U.S. government jobs and deporting many from the country under the banner of anti-DEI policies, the same system is now turning to Africans because it needs soldiers to fight its wars, particularly in the Gulf region. Following the February 28 strike on Iran, recruitment efforts targeting Africans have reportedly intensified. Black recruiters are being deployed to African communities to encourage enlistment, framing it as an opportunity. African and Caribbean immigrants in the U.S., including visa holders, are also being enticed with promises of citizenship and relief from aggressive immigration enforcement. In essence, immigrants are being asked to risk their lives in conflicts that are not their own, with the possibility of earning the right to remain in the country. If they refuse, they face the threat of deportation and continued pressure from immigration authorities.

The Spearhead

41,855 次观看 • 4 个月前

RETWEET Watching Dimakatso Makoena saying that “I Hate Foreigners” with such raw emotion and painfully crying in this attached BBC documentary film makes you realise how evil and manipulative failed politicians can be towards unsuspecting citizens who are victims of their failures. South Africa has an immigration crisis that can’t be wished away, but it is also a complex problem that can’t be explained in simplistic terms as many try to do, especially the authors of the crisis, politicians. South Africans were not born hating foreign nationals, like racism, they were taught to hate and to believe that all their problems were authored by African foreign nationals, both legal and illegal immigrants. The explanation for every political and economic failure in South Africa is now on foreigners, even someone who can’t get an erection at home will soon probably blame foreigners too. It is true that South Africa has attracted more foreigners than any other country on the continent because of its historic successful and big economy, and how the apartheid economic architecture attracted cheap migrant labour from surrounding countries to maximise on its profits. Apartheid was a racist business model run by politicians and businesspeople, today’s South Africa is also run by one of the richest businesspeople in Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, whose many businesses have benefited from migrant labour. Unlike in the past where mass immigration was triggered mainly by weak economies coming out of colonial rule that surrounded the apartheid regime, the bulk of illegal immigration today is now triggered by failed economies around South Africa particularly Zimbabwe, which has failed due to grand incompetence and political repressive corrupt rule. Why is it like this, and who is responsible for this immigration crisis, and how can this be changed to bring a healthy balance of immigration/migration which is not only one way? This has been caused by a dead economy in Zimbabwe which was killed by corrupt rule and the plunder of that country’s natural resources. Zimbabweans used to find work in Zimbabwe and had working public services like hospitals after that country's independence in 1980, and only went to South Africa to buy things to come and sell back home, it was business from top to bottom. Of course, as I said earlier, there was an earlier flow of migrants from Zimbabwe and other African countries during the colonial days of the famed WNLA which stood for Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA), more popularly known as WENELA. It was set up by the gold mines in South Africa as a recruiting agency for migrant workers. Before that people were always moving around the region looking for better pastures and a better standard of living, Africa was a village. That is how you ended up with the Ray Phiris, Hugh Masekelas (whose real surname was Munyepawu from Zimbabwe) and Herman Mashabas of this world. Their parents, grandparents and great grand parents came to South Africa to seek better lives and also to seek work mostly in mines after the nineteenth century, they were born in South Africa to migrant workers or children of migrant workers. Today’s illegal immigration crisis is driven by old factors of cheap labour on the part of South African businesses, and it is accentuated by new political players, the failed regional ruling parties like ZANUPF. In normal countries this is easily resolved by an election where the citizens can choose a different government and remove the crooks and incompetent parties from power. But Zimbabwe is not normal, it has a ruling party which came into power with its own military wings, ZANLA/ZIPRA which became the national army. Elections are routinely rigged, and citizens beaten to pulp or killed for resisting the failed political and economic status quo which is anchored by corruption and incompetence. The only organization that can stop this is SADC, which is a regional grouping of 16 countries with election protocols that all member states must follow and adhere to. However, ZANUPF has been able to repeatedly violate these protocols for 23 years with the support of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress. ANC is powerful because it runs the most diverse and sophisticated economy on the African continent, so what it says in SADC matters, and what it doesn’t say matters too. Recently the ANC endorsed the shambolic Zimbabwean elections as democratic, ignoring the mountain of evidence to the contrary. It called the Zimbabwean opposition leader a puppet of the West, and it said it will support ZANUPF regardless. Indirectly it called the millions that voted for the opposition puppets of the West too, what motivates the ANC to say such scurrilous stuff if not bungs? So, the ANC literally endorses the causes and drivers of illegal immigration in South Africa, possibly for corrupt reasons, yet when back home it insults Zimbabweans asking them to leave South Africa and go back to Zimbabwe. The ANC is also riding on the xenophobic/anti-foreign nationals’ campaign as seen recently when South Africa's Minister for Police, Bheki Cele took to the highways to personally inspect public transport and remove Zimbabweans without proof on residence on them. This of course is done for politicking reasons, it is an empty explanation to why the economy in South Africa has terribly tanked. ZANUPF blames sanctions for all its failures with the help of Ramaphosa who trumpets the sanctions propaganda everywhere he goes, yet he knows that Zimbabwe has failed due to corrupt rule, incompetence and economic mismanagement. The ANC has now joined the scapegoating bandwagon of blaming foreigners for its failures to govern. It surreptitiously supports Dudula, which is a vigilante group agitating for foreign nationals to leave South Africa regardless of whether they are legal or illegal using the lie that South Africa has collapsed economically due to foreign nationals. Citizens are easy to deceive especially in poor townships, but why are they easily deceived. It is however true that illegal foreign nationals access social and health delivery services in South Africa, creating flash points with locals who complain that they are squeezed out because of the competitive unbudgeted use of public services by illegal foreign nationals. Seventy-five percent of women who give birth at Musina hospital in South Africa’s Limpopo province are Zimbabwean according to the South African Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. This is because Zimbabwe’s biggest hospital only has one working maternity theatre built in 1977 by Ian Smith’s colonial government. 2500 Zimbabwean woman die every year giving birth and as a result, many run away to South Africa to avoid dying when giving birth. This could be easily fixed because a maternity theatre costs only US$37,000 (R666,000) to build, but the Zimbabwean government has failed to do this for its citizens. In a normal society, and in normal times, you simply vote out such an uncaring government, but Zimbabweans have repeatedly tried to do so, but failed due to repression and the failure by SADC to force Zimbabwe to adhere to its constitutional commitments and regional election protocols. The ZANUPF regime has also been repeatdly supported by the ANC and the South African Government on many times to evade this SADC scrutiny as has happened in the recently held shambolic and rigged election, where citizens spent more than 12 hours waiting for ballot papers in opposition strongholds which were 5 minutes away from the election commission offices. It means that South Africa will receive more undocumented Zimbabweans looking for health and social services, and more importantly looking for jobs. South African ANC elites don’t care about this because they don’t use public hospitals, and they don’t live in the townships where there is a shortage of public service amenities. They only care when it is election time, they only care for votes. As South Africa heads towards the 2024 general election, spare a thought for immigrants regardless of whether they are legal or not, particularly African foreign nationals because they will be scapegoated by both the ruling ANC party, and the many fringe one-issue parties that have all congregated around the immigration issue for easy pickings of votes. Immigration is a real crisis in South Africa that has ceased to be a foreign policy issue anymore, it is now a domestic policy issue because it now has the real potential of stopping the ANC from crossing the fifty percent mark in the 2024 elections, forcing the possibility of a coalition government of sorts not out of choice, but out of necessity, a first since 1994. I said the immigration crisis is complex, it has created social pressures in poor communities, but it is not the reason why the South African economy has tanked. Illegal immigration can be fixed by allowing citizens to have free, fair and credible elections particularly in Zimbabwe so that they don’t flock into South Africa, but how can this be possible when the ANC sanitises stolen and shambolic elections? Nobody wants to leave their own home to go to a place where they are not wanted, but they do it because at times it is the difference between living and death. Both South Africa and Zimbabwe require leadership scrutiny, the leaders on both sides of Limpopo are responsible for the immigration crisis, yet it is the poor people that batter each other whilst the politicians are locked away in their mansions. Something must give, the citizens must wake up to the realities of corrupt and incompetent rule and not allow scapegoating to be used as a deceptive tool to explain failed governance. Sadly, it might be too late for 2024, but perhaps the 2024 election result might force the ANC to have a change of heart and for once do the right thing on the Zimbabwe political crisis that has staggered on since 2023.

RETWEET Watching Dimakatso Makoena saying that “I Hate Foreigners” with such raw emotion and painfully crying in this attached BBC documentary film makes you realise how evil and manipulative failed politicians can be towards unsuspecting citizens who are victims of their failures. South Africa has an immigration crisis that can’t be wished away, but it is also a complex problem that can’t be explained in simplistic terms as many try to do, especially the authors of the crisis, politicians. South Africans were not born hating foreign nationals, like racism, they were taught to hate and to believe that all their problems were authored by African foreign nationals, both legal and illegal immigrants. The explanation for every political and economic failure in South Africa is now on foreigners, even someone who can’t get an erection at home will soon probably blame foreigners too. It is true that South Africa has attracted more foreigners than any other country on the continent because of its historic successful and big economy, and how the apartheid economic architecture attracted cheap migrant labour from surrounding countries to maximise on its profits. Apartheid was a racist business model run by politicians and businesspeople, today’s South Africa is also run by one of the richest businesspeople in Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, whose many businesses have benefited from migrant labour. Unlike in the past where mass immigration was triggered mainly by weak economies coming out of colonial rule that surrounded the apartheid regime, the bulk of illegal immigration today is now triggered by failed economies around South Africa particularly Zimbabwe, which has failed due to grand incompetence and political repressive corrupt rule. Why is it like this, and who is responsible for this immigration crisis, and how can this be changed to bring a healthy balance of immigration/migration which is not only one way? This has been caused by a dead economy in Zimbabwe which was killed by corrupt rule and the plunder of that country’s natural resources. Zimbabweans used to find work in Zimbabwe and had working public services like hospitals after that country's independence in 1980, and only went to South Africa to buy things to come and sell back home, it was business from top to bottom. Of course, as I said earlier, there was an earlier flow of migrants from Zimbabwe and other African countries during the colonial days of the famed WNLA which stood for Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA), more popularly known as WENELA. It was set up by the gold mines in South Africa as a recruiting agency for migrant workers. Before that people were always moving around the region looking for better pastures and a better standard of living, Africa was a village. That is how you ended up with the Ray Phiris, Hugh Masekelas (whose real surname was Munyepawu from Zimbabwe) and Herman Mashabas of this world. Their parents, grandparents and great grand parents came to South Africa to seek better lives and also to seek work mostly in mines after the nineteenth century, they were born in South Africa to migrant workers or children of migrant workers. Today’s illegal immigration crisis is driven by old factors of cheap labour on the part of South African businesses, and it is accentuated by new political players, the failed regional ruling parties like ZANUPF. In normal countries this is easily resolved by an election where the citizens can choose a different government and remove the crooks and incompetent parties from power. But Zimbabwe is not normal, it has a ruling party which came into power with its own military wings, ZANLA/ZIPRA which became the national army. Elections are routinely rigged, and citizens beaten to pulp or killed for resisting the failed political and economic status quo which is anchored by corruption and incompetence. The only organization that can stop this is SADC, which is a regional grouping of 16 countries with election protocols that all member states must follow and adhere to. However, ZANUPF has been able to repeatedly violate these protocols for 23 years with the support of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress. ANC is powerful because it runs the most diverse and sophisticated economy on the African continent, so what it says in SADC matters, and what it doesn’t say matters too. Recently the ANC endorsed the shambolic Zimbabwean elections as democratic, ignoring the mountain of evidence to the contrary. It called the Zimbabwean opposition leader a puppet of the West, and it said it will support ZANUPF regardless. Indirectly it called the millions that voted for the opposition puppets of the West too, what motivates the ANC to say such scurrilous stuff if not bungs? So, the ANC literally endorses the causes and drivers of illegal immigration in South Africa, possibly for corrupt reasons, yet when back home it insults Zimbabweans asking them to leave South Africa and go back to Zimbabwe. The ANC is also riding on the xenophobic/anti-foreign nationals’ campaign as seen recently when South Africa's Minister for Police, Bheki Cele took to the highways to personally inspect public transport and remove Zimbabweans without proof on residence on them. This of course is done for politicking reasons, it is an empty explanation to why the economy in South Africa has terribly tanked. ZANUPF blames sanctions for all its failures with the help of Ramaphosa who trumpets the sanctions propaganda everywhere he goes, yet he knows that Zimbabwe has failed due to corrupt rule, incompetence and economic mismanagement. The ANC has now joined the scapegoating bandwagon of blaming foreigners for its failures to govern. It surreptitiously supports Dudula, which is a vigilante group agitating for foreign nationals to leave South Africa regardless of whether they are legal or illegal using the lie that South Africa has collapsed economically due to foreign nationals. Citizens are easy to deceive especially in poor townships, but why are they easily deceived. It is however true that illegal foreign nationals access social and health delivery services in South Africa, creating flash points with locals who complain that they are squeezed out because of the competitive unbudgeted use of public services by illegal foreign nationals. Seventy-five percent of women who give birth at Musina hospital in South Africa’s Limpopo province are Zimbabwean according to the South African Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. This is because Zimbabwe’s biggest hospital only has one working maternity theatre built in 1977 by Ian Smith’s colonial government. 2500 Zimbabwean woman die every year giving birth and as a result, many run away to South Africa to avoid dying when giving birth. This could be easily fixed because a maternity theatre costs only US$37,000 (R666,000) to build, but the Zimbabwean government has failed to do this for its citizens. In a normal society, and in normal times, you simply vote out such an uncaring government, but Zimbabweans have repeatedly tried to do so, but failed due to repression and the failure by SADC to force Zimbabwe to adhere to its constitutional commitments and regional election protocols. The ZANUPF regime has also been repeatdly supported by the ANC and the South African Government on many times to evade this SADC scrutiny as has happened in the recently held shambolic and rigged election, where citizens spent more than 12 hours waiting for ballot papers in opposition strongholds which were 5 minutes away from the election commission offices. It means that South Africa will receive more undocumented Zimbabweans looking for health and social services, and more importantly looking for jobs. South African ANC elites don’t care about this because they don’t use public hospitals, and they don’t live in the townships where there is a shortage of public service amenities. They only care when it is election time, they only care for votes. As South Africa heads towards the 2024 general election, spare a thought for immigrants regardless of whether they are legal or not, particularly African foreign nationals because they will be scapegoated by both the ruling ANC party, and the many fringe one-issue parties that have all congregated around the immigration issue for easy pickings of votes. Immigration is a real crisis in South Africa that has ceased to be a foreign policy issue anymore, it is now a domestic policy issue because it now has the real potential of stopping the ANC from crossing the fifty percent mark in the 2024 elections, forcing the possibility of a coalition government of sorts not out of choice, but out of necessity, a first since 1994. I said the immigration crisis is complex, it has created social pressures in poor communities, but it is not the reason why the South African economy has tanked. Illegal immigration can be fixed by allowing citizens to have free, fair and credible elections particularly in Zimbabwe so that they don’t flock into South Africa, but how can this be possible when the ANC sanitises stolen and shambolic elections? Nobody wants to leave their own home to go to a place where they are not wanted, but they do it because at times it is the difference between living and death. Both South Africa and Zimbabwe require leadership scrutiny, the leaders on both sides of Limpopo are responsible for the immigration crisis, yet it is the poor people that batter each other whilst the politicians are locked away in their mansions. Something must give, the citizens must wake up to the realities of corrupt and incompetent rule and not allow scapegoating to be used as a deceptive tool to explain failed governance. Sadly, it might be too late for 2024, but perhaps the 2024 election result might force the ANC to have a change of heart and for once do the right thing on the Zimbabwe political crisis that has staggered on since 2023.

Hopewell Chin’ono

179,354 次观看 • 2 年前

When I shared this video last week of South African businessman Rob Hersov telling us what Trump is doing to South Africa now, many dismissed Hersov as a liar. His words have come to pass! Many are wondering why Trump chose aid cuts for South Africa rather than sanctions or tariffs. The people urging him on and falsely claiming that white South Africans are being persecuted by their government are white business owners and pressure groups. They know that sanctions or tariffs would hurt them, whereas cutting aid will supposedly harm poor black South Africans and the government. Luckily for South Africa, only 17% of its antiretroviral support comes from America, and it receives no other aid from there according to President Ramaphosa! It is time for African countries to wean themselves off Western donor aid. We do not need it; what we need is trade, especially among ourselves, and an end to corruption. Africa is a continent of roughly 1.5 billion people, as big as China, we need to focus on trade. We have been saying this for years, hopefully the leaders will now see some light! And to the Black South Africans who were cheering on Trump, they say you do not kick a man when he is down! In Zimbabwe, we have a saying: a dog’s puppies do not open their eyes on the same day.

When I shared this video last week of South African businessman Rob Hersov telling us what Trump is doing to South Africa now, many dismissed Hersov as a liar. His words have come to pass! Many are wondering why Trump chose aid cuts for South Africa rather than sanctions or tariffs. The people urging him on and falsely claiming that white South Africans are being persecuted by their government are white business owners and pressure groups. They know that sanctions or tariffs would hurt them, whereas cutting aid will supposedly harm poor black South Africans and the government. Luckily for South Africa, only 17% of its antiretroviral support comes from America, and it receives no other aid from there according to President Ramaphosa! It is time for African countries to wean themselves off Western donor aid. We do not need it; what we need is trade, especially among ourselves, and an end to corruption. Africa is a continent of roughly 1.5 billion people, as big as China, we need to focus on trade. We have been saying this for years, hopefully the leaders will now see some light! And to the Black South Africans who were cheering on Trump, they say you do not kick a man when he is down! In Zimbabwe, we have a saying: a dog’s puppies do not open their eyes on the same day.

Hopewell Chin’ono

59,230 次观看 • 1 年前