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𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗭𝗜𝗠 𝗪𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡 & 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗡 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗛𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗭𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗚. Today South Africans see black African refugees as illegal immigrants but when their own leaders went into exile they went into exile without passports or documents and were regularized by... show more

Rutendo Matinyarare

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Rutendo Matinyarare1 year ago

The United Nations and U.S. Congress both did studies that proved that Zimbabweans were being displaced by illegal sanctions and then being abused in neighboring countries. Yet South African banks and companies were involved in also sanctioning Zimbabweans. So how can neighboring citizens deny the same refugees healthcare in contravention of international law when they are involved in sanctioning Zimbabweans?

Kay Mkholwa1 year ago

Crime against humanity is what ZanuPF regime is doing to its citizens. How do you pride yourself on being in government while you can’t provide the basic human needs of your citizens? Shame shame shame!

Mthizozolihle1 year ago

Ayi bro, you are loud to speak about health care and laws in South Africa. Use the same energy to tell Mnangagwa to provide health care for Zimbabweans. Don't defend Zanu PF failure.

Rutendo Matinyarare1 year ago

Healthcare in Zimbabwe has its challenges due to illegal sanctions that displaced refugees from Zimbabwe. When refugees are now living in South Africa, do you expect them to spend money traveling to go and receive healthcare in Zimbabwe?

Dr Shad Katuu 🌐4 years ago

Law and recordkeeping: A tale of four African countries

#RedefiningSuccess1 year ago

Entitlement on steroids.🫣 Zimbabwean women & children are failed by cowardice of their so called "men"? Same energy - but in fixing Zimbabwe - imagine whee you'd be?

Rutendo Matinyarare1 year ago

Human Rights are an entitlement and an inalienable right.

Vester Mokgawa1 year ago

They did them right, SA is not a play ground for Zimbabweans. They must learn to come here legally

Rutendo Matinyarare1 year ago

Refugees are entitled to come legally or illegally and the South African government must regularize them. A refugee can never be illegal.

Bee Lolo1 year ago

SA didn't invade Zimbabwe so how are you comparing SAns who refuse Zimbabweans free public healthcare in SA to Gaza? It's ZANUPF your party that is prosecuting Zimbabweans. @matinyarare go and open a case @ICJ

Mqondisi1 year ago

Yet you supporting Zanu ,just ask your self why she is in South African clinic if everything is okey in Zim like u always claim

Rutendo Matinyarare1 year ago

ZANU PF liberated South Africa and Zimbabwe, why shouldn’t I support it?

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98,570 views • 10 months ago

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24,393 views • 1 year ago

In my travelogue, I’ve only been to South Africa once (2015). During that visit, I vowed never to return to that country, except for a guided visit. South Africans seem to see their fellow Africans as sub-humans. In February 2016, I published an investigative report exposing the inhuman treatment of other African nationals applying for stay permits by South African officials and their citizens. This made the South African High Commission in Lagos invite me for a ‘friendly’ discussion where they made attempt to discredit the story; but I showed their official video evidence. In response, their Home Office announced a sweeping overhaul of the guidelines for the application for stay permits, making the process even more stringent. This only had little effect. Permit seekers never stopped applying, and the abuse continued, given native South Africans reason to violently abuse immigrants. Over the last decade, the trend has grown from bad to worse. South Africa has consistently projected stories of unbridled savagery and violence to the continent. This troubling video perfectly captures the rampant violence faced by foreign black nationals on the streets of Mzansi 💔💔

In my travelogue, I’ve only been to South Africa once (2015). During that visit, I vowed never to return to that country, except for a guided visit. South Africans seem to see their fellow Africans as sub-humans. In February 2016, I published an investigative report exposing the inhuman treatment of other African nationals applying for stay permits by South African officials and their citizens. This made the South African High Commission in Lagos invite me for a ‘friendly’ discussion where they made attempt to discredit the story; but I showed their official video evidence. In response, their Home Office announced a sweeping overhaul of the guidelines for the application for stay permits, making the process even more stringent. This only had little effect. Permit seekers never stopped applying, and the abuse continued, given native South Africans reason to violently abuse immigrants. Over the last decade, the trend has grown from bad to worse. South Africa has consistently projected stories of unbridled savagery and violence to the continent. This troubling video perfectly captures the rampant violence faced by foreign black nationals on the streets of Mzansi 💔💔

AJE

56,161 views • 3 months ago

In 2018, I toured the world as a presidential aspirant and later as a presidential candidate, meeting Nigerians across the diaspora and assuring them of a home they could proudly return to, a Nigeria that could once again become a beacon of hope for Black people everywhere. In South Africa, I spoke candidly about the hostility some Black South Africans displayed toward Nigerians and other African nationals who were being unfairly treated. My stance led a South African television host to abruptly cut short my interview, and subsequent media appearances were put on hold. Today, that warning has become a raging prophecy. However, no matter how strongly we feel about the xenophobia of ordinary South Africans and their leaders toward fellow Africans, we must never forget that our own rulers have been far worse. They have subjected Nigerians to poverty, repression, insecurity, and forced migration, making millions vulnerable both at home and abroad. Until we confront the failures of governance in Nigeria, our people will continue to pay the price wherever they go! #RevolutionNow #SoworeForPresident #Sowore2027 #TinubuMustGo

In 2018, I toured the world as a presidential aspirant and later as a presidential candidate, meeting Nigerians across the diaspora and assuring them of a home they could proudly return to, a Nigeria that could once again become a beacon of hope for Black people everywhere. In South Africa, I spoke candidly about the hostility some Black South Africans displayed toward Nigerians and other African nationals who were being unfairly treated. My stance led a South African television host to abruptly cut short my interview, and subsequent media appearances were put on hold. Today, that warning has become a raging prophecy. However, no matter how strongly we feel about the xenophobia of ordinary South Africans and their leaders toward fellow Africans, we must never forget that our own rulers have been far worse. They have subjected Nigerians to poverty, repression, insecurity, and forced migration, making millions vulnerable both at home and abroad. Until we confront the failures of governance in Nigeria, our people will continue to pay the price wherever they go! #RevolutionNow #SoworeForPresident #Sowore2027 #TinubuMustGo

Omoyele Sowore

25,464 views • 1 month ago

🇳🇬🇿🇦 This is exactly what we want to see as South Africans. Zizi is a young Nigerian student at the University of Pretoria, living her life, enjoying South Africa & building her future peacefully. As old as I am I follow the young future somebody😂on TikTok & I love love her I’m genuinely rooting for her, she’s brave & I believe her future is bright 🇳🇬❤️🇿🇦 This is the Africa we want, peace, opportunity & Africans building legitimate futures together not illegal immigration, crime or governments trying to shame South Africa for enforcing its own laws. Ghanaian & Nigerian leaders who want to take South Africa to the AU for enforcing immigration laws are failing the very young people who want to study, work & build legitimate futures. Instead of defending lawbreakers, African leaders should fix the conditions that force their citizens to leave. Africa must unite but unity cannot mean South Africa must surrender its laws, resources & future of our own children!

🇳🇬🇿🇦 This is exactly what we want to see as South Africans. Zizi is a young Nigerian student at the University of Pretoria, living her life, enjoying South Africa & building her future peacefully. As old as I am I follow the young future somebody😂on TikTok & I love love her I’m genuinely rooting for her, she’s brave & I believe her future is bright 🇳🇬❤️🇿🇦 This is the Africa we want, peace, opportunity & Africans building legitimate futures together not illegal immigration, crime or governments trying to shame South Africa for enforcing its own laws. Ghanaian & Nigerian leaders who want to take South Africa to the AU for enforcing immigration laws are failing the very young people who want to study, work & build legitimate futures. Instead of defending lawbreakers, African leaders should fix the conditions that force their citizens to leave. Africa must unite but unity cannot mean South Africa must surrender its laws, resources & future of our own children!

yknipg

45,476 views • 20 days ago

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 views • 1 year ago

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

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

Hopewell Chin’ono

112,247 views • 1 month ago

A South African national told Reuters that his 20-year-old son was promised elite training as a VIP bodyguard in Russia, but instead he ended up in the trenches in Donetsk region. At least 16 other South Africans had the same experience. "All the time my boy is crying when he's talking. All the time he's crying because of the situation," the father of the recruited young man shared. Relatives say the recruits are being forced to dig trenches and have gone weeks without water, adequate food, or medical care. 📹: South Africans say they were scammed into joining Russia's war in Ukraine / Reuters Full story:

A South African national told Reuters that his 20-year-old son was promised elite training as a VIP bodyguard in Russia, but instead he ended up in the trenches in Donetsk region. At least 16 other South Africans had the same experience. "All the time my boy is crying when he's talking. All the time he's crying because of the situation," the father of the recruited young man shared. Relatives say the recruits are being forced to dig trenches and have gone weeks without water, adequate food, or medical care. 📹: South Africans say they were scammed into joining Russia's war in Ukraine / Reuters Full story:

Anton Gerashchenko

845,797 views • 7 months ago

How can an undocumented illegal foreigner hold a legal permit? Before Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams blocked me, I asked a critical question: How do you regularise an illegal business? Months later, we still see no evidence of foreign-owned spaza shops—including those run by Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Ethiopian nationals—following the new regulations. It is business as usual, as if no crimes were ever committed. The so-called 'spaza shop mafia' controls the mass production of counterfeit goods, which has tragically led to the deaths of South African children. They operate through exclusive networks and exploit victims of human trafficking who work extreme hours for sub-minimum wages. Furthermore, South African shop owners are being intimidated, threatened, and even killed. Local citizens are being systematically forced out of this sector. Do you think South Africans will not eventually rise up to defend their livelihoods? The government’s failure to enforce the law is pushing citizens toward vigilantism. We need action before people feel they have no choice but to take the law into their own hands.

How can an undocumented illegal foreigner hold a legal permit? Before Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams blocked me, I asked a critical question: How do you regularise an illegal business? Months later, we still see no evidence of foreign-owned spaza shops—including those run by Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Ethiopian nationals—following the new regulations. It is business as usual, as if no crimes were ever committed. The so-called 'spaza shop mafia' controls the mass production of counterfeit goods, which has tragically led to the deaths of South African children. They operate through exclusive networks and exploit victims of human trafficking who work extreme hours for sub-minimum wages. Furthermore, South African shop owners are being intimidated, threatened, and even killed. Local citizens are being systematically forced out of this sector. Do you think South Africans will not eventually rise up to defend their livelihoods? The government’s failure to enforce the law is pushing citizens toward vigilantism. We need action before people feel they have no choice but to take the law into their own hands.

Kwena Molekwa

18,321 views • 4 months ago

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

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

Hopewell Chin’ono

81,811 views • 1 year ago

When she asked, “Why aren’t South Africans fighting against white foreigners as well?” I was genuinely annoyed because it completely misses the point. White South Africans or foreigners generally aren’t competing with illegal migrants for limited public resources. Most don’t live in townships or informal settlements where the pressure on public clinics, schools and low skilled jobs is felt most. Poor black South Africans do. That’s why this issue is experienced differently. It’s not about race. It’s about who is directly affected by the competition for already stretched public resources. People who live side by side with illegal migrants and rely on the same public services are naturally going to have different concerns from those who don’t. Their experiences deserve to be acknowledged, not reduced to accusations of xenophobia. I don’t know why she and everyone including the government and politicians don’t get it. I’m not directly affected by illegal immigrants but I can’t dismiss the lived experiences of people who are affected by them.

When she asked, “Why aren’t South Africans fighting against white foreigners as well?” I was genuinely annoyed because it completely misses the point. White South Africans or foreigners generally aren’t competing with illegal migrants for limited public resources. Most don’t live in townships or informal settlements where the pressure on public clinics, schools and low skilled jobs is felt most. Poor black South Africans do. That’s why this issue is experienced differently. It’s not about race. It’s about who is directly affected by the competition for already stretched public resources. People who live side by side with illegal migrants and rely on the same public services are naturally going to have different concerns from those who don’t. Their experiences deserve to be acknowledged, not reduced to accusations of xenophobia. I don’t know why she and everyone including the government and politicians don’t get it. I’m not directly affected by illegal immigrants but I can’t dismiss the lived experiences of people who are affected by them.

Lerato

519,056 views • 1 month ago

A wise man once said that when xenophobes are done targeting foreigners, they will eventually turn on fellow South Africans whom they think do not “look South African.” Sadly, that is exactly what is now happening. It is heartbreaking to watch brother turn against brother, South African turn against South African, simply because they speak different vernacular languages, belong to different ethnic groups, or do not fit someone else’s narrow idea of what a South African should look like. This is backward, dangerous, and deeply shameful. A country cannot build unity or progress when people are policing each other’s identity based on accents, language, skin tone, surnames, or tribes. Today it is someone being accused of being foreign. Tomorrow it will be another South African being told they are not “South African enough.” That is how hatred destroys societies from within. This is why the rest of the world sometimes laughs at Africans. We fight each other over the very things that should make us stronger, our diversity, cultures, and identities. Instead of uniting against poverty, corruption, unemployment, and failed leadership, people are busy hunting one another over tribe and language. This is the worst form of ignorance because it strips people of their dignity and humanity. I hope this brother recovers from the trauma and humiliation of being treated like an outsider in his own country. I cannot imagine the pain of being called a foreigner by people who believe you must speak their language or look like them to belong.

A wise man once said that when xenophobes are done targeting foreigners, they will eventually turn on fellow South Africans whom they think do not “look South African.” Sadly, that is exactly what is now happening. It is heartbreaking to watch brother turn against brother, South African turn against South African, simply because they speak different vernacular languages, belong to different ethnic groups, or do not fit someone else’s narrow idea of what a South African should look like. This is backward, dangerous, and deeply shameful. A country cannot build unity or progress when people are policing each other’s identity based on accents, language, skin tone, surnames, or tribes. Today it is someone being accused of being foreign. Tomorrow it will be another South African being told they are not “South African enough.” That is how hatred destroys societies from within. This is why the rest of the world sometimes laughs at Africans. We fight each other over the very things that should make us stronger, our diversity, cultures, and identities. Instead of uniting against poverty, corruption, unemployment, and failed leadership, people are busy hunting one another over tribe and language. This is the worst form of ignorance because it strips people of their dignity and humanity. I hope this brother recovers from the trauma and humiliation of being treated like an outsider in his own country. I cannot imagine the pain of being called a foreigner by people who believe you must speak their language or look like them to belong.

Hopewell Chin’ono

54,731 views • 2 months ago