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๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—˜๐—ฆ ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—”๐—ฅ๐—ฉ๐˜€ ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—ญ๐—œ๐—  ๐—•๐—จ๐—ฆ ๐——๐—ข๐—กโ€™๐—ง ๐— ๐—”๐—ž๐—˜ ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—ก๐—ฆ๐—˜ It sounds like scapegoating because Zimbabwe has a free and better and more effective ARV treatment program than South Africa. So why would Zimbabweans steal ARVs?

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๐—ญ๐—œ๐— ๐—•๐—”๐—•๐—ช๐—˜ ๐—ก๐—ข๐—ง ๐—ฆ๐—ข๐—จ๐—ง๐—› ๐—”๐—™๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—–๐—”, ๐—›๐—ข๐—Ÿ๐——โ€™๐—ฆ ๐—”๐—™๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—–๐—”โ€™๐—ฆ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿด ๐— ๐—”๐—œ๐—ญ๐—˜ ๐—ฃ๐—ฅ๐—ข๐——๐—จ๐—–๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—–๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—— ๐—”๐—ง ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฎ ๐—ง๐—ข๐—ก๐—ฆ ๐—ฃ๐—˜๐—ฅ ๐—›๐—˜๐—–๐—ง๐—”๐—ฅ๐—˜, ๐—ช๐—œ๐—ง๐—›๐—ข๐—จ๐—ง ๐—š๐— ๐—ข๐˜€. So it it not true that South Africa can produce maize more than Zimbabwe because of GMOs. The only reason why South Africa outproduces Zimbabwe in maize overall, is because all maize in South Africa is produced by commercial maize farmers with over 300 years of unfair advantage of slave labor, colonialism, apartheid and government subsidies. Meanwhile Zimbabwean maize is produced by rural farmers who were oppressed for 100 years by white Zimbabwean farmers, our commercial farmers have no desire to grow maize because it is not financially lucrative. But Zimbabwe is outproducing South African farmers on wheat is because wheat in Zimbabwe is also produced by commercial farmers just like in South Africa. #ZimbabweVsSouthAfricaAgriculture

Rutendo Matinyarare

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The Zimbabwean Government has told both Zimbabweans living in South Africa and the South African government that it will not pay a cent towards healthcare services provided to Zimbabwean nationals in South African public hospitals. According to the South African government, 70% of women giving birth at Musina Hospital in Limpopo are Zimbabweans. Zimbabweโ€™s healthcare system collapsed years ago due to rampant corruption, forcing many citizens to seek medical care in neighbouring countries. Most Zimbabweans with serious health conditions turn to South Africa, while those from Mashonaland West and Matabeleland North often go to Zambia, where they receive free treatment. Zimbabweans without immigration documentation are being chased out of South African public hospitals by vigilante groups like Dudula. There is a huge illegal immigration crisis in South Africa, driven by the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy caused by corruption and rigged electionsโ€”elections which the ruling ANC in South Africa has openly endorsed. A nation that cannot treat its sick, run a decent economy without massive corruption, or hold free and fair elections has not just failed its people; it has exported its failure to neighbours now forced to carry the burden of its collapse. Sadly, the powerful ANC political elites in South Africa continue to turn a blind eye to ZANUPFโ€™s delinquent behaviour, which has created a domestic crisis within South Africa itself.

Hopewell Chinโ€™ono

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ZANUPF has done many terrible things, but it is important to acknowledge that there are certain good things it did too. One of them was allowing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) to operate from Zimbabwe, pass through Zimbabwe, and even use the Zimbabwe National Army to move its weapons from Zambia to South Africa. I know you are basing your statement on a short video clip which occasionally circulates online, showing Robert Mugabe being interviewed by British television. In that interview, he was asked if he would allow South Africans to fight militarily from Zimbabwe, and he replied that South Africans would fight militarily in South Africa not Zimbabwe. Anyone with a bit of common sense would understand that Mugabe could never have gone on British television and publicly said that Zimbabwe was helping South Africans militarily to fight apartheid from Zimbabwean soil. It is like expecting O. R. Tambo to go on British or American television and expose the tactics used to fight the apartheid regime. That would not have been a smart thing to do. It simply requires a bit of emotional intelligence to understand that when watching that video clip. If you are not aware of the history, read about the number of bombings that took place in Zimbabwe โ€” bombings carried out by the apartheid South African regime in retaliation for Zimbabweโ€™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 Limitedโ€™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 donโ€™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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” that is about self-hate, the internalised racism that drives some Africans to turn on their fellow Africans.

Hopewell Chinโ€™ono

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๐—–๐—”๐—Ÿ๐—Ÿ ๐—ฌ๐—ข๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—Ÿ๐—™ ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐—ฉ๐—”๐—ก๐—š๐—จ๐—”๐—ฅ๐—— ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—ญ๐—”๐—ก๐—จ ๐—ฃ๐—™ ๐—•๐—จ๐—ง ๐—œ ๐—›๐—”๐—ฉ๐—˜ ๐——๐—ข๐—ก๐—˜ ๐— ๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—˜ ๐—™๐—ข๐—ฅ ๐—ญ๐—”๐—ก๐—จ ๐—ฃ๐—™, ๐—ญ๐—œ๐— ๐—•๐—”๐—•๐—ช๐—˜ ๐—”๐—ก๐—— ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐—ฃ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—ฆ๐—œ๐——๐—˜๐—ก๐—ง ๐—ง๐—›๐—”๐—ก ๐—ฌ๐—ข๐—จ! I have done more for Zimbabwe than John Paradza and the so-called vanguard of ZANU PF by removing sanctions on Zimbabwe, writing the anti-sanctions strategy ZANU PF used to march against sanctions, defending Brand Zimbabwe, Telling The Good Zimbabwe Story, fighting the deportation of Zimbabwean workers in South Africa, and influencing the ANC to support the 2023 Zim election results. Here is my proof of work for Zimbabwe. I challenge John and anyone who lifts their head here to condemn me: show me your proof of work that you have done for Zimbabwe or for the Presidentโ€™s legacy. Just because I made one mistake does not erase the huge sacrifice I have made for this republic and it does not mean you add any value to the country.

Rutendo Matinyarare

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#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 โ€œFace The Nationโ€, 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 governmentโ€™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. ๐Ÿ”ดVideo: Limpopo Current Affairs

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#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 Cronjรฉ 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

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RETWEET Watching Dimakatso Makoena saying that โ€œI Hate Foreignersโ€ 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 canโ€™t be wished away, but it is also a complex problem that canโ€™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 canโ€™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, todayโ€™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 countryโ€™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. Todayโ€™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 Africaโ€™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 doesnโ€™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 nationalsโ€™ 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 Africaโ€™s Limpopo province are Zimbabwean according to the South African Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. This is because Zimbabweโ€™s biggest hospital only has one working maternity theatre built in 1977 by Ian Smithโ€™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 donโ€™t care about this because they donโ€™t use public hospitals, and they donโ€™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 donโ€™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 Chinโ€™ono

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๐—”๐——๐——๐—œ๐—ฆ ๐—”๐—•๐—”๐—•๐—” ๐—ค๐—จ๐—œ๐—–๐—ž๐—Ÿ๐—ฌ ๐—•๐—˜๐—–๐—ข๐— ๐—œ๐—ก๐—š ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐——๐—จ๐—•๐—”๐—œ ๐—ข๐—™ ๐—”๐—™๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—–๐—”. ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜๐—ฌ ๐—”๐—ฅ๐—˜ ๐—•๐—จ๐—œ๐—Ÿ๐——๐—œ๐—ก๐—š ๐—”๐—ก๐—— ๐—ก๐—ข๐—ง ๐—˜๐—Ÿ๐—˜๐—–๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก๐—˜๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—ก๐—š. Zimbabwe is getting left behind by many African nations because we keep electioneering instead of building. More critically wealth is concentrated in a few peopleโ€™s hands who are not spreading the wealth while government continues to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. Yes, 24 years of illegal western sanctions really pushed Zimbabwe back, but now the sanctions on the nation are gone, we need to invest, build quickly and stop the perpetual electioneering that is dividing our nation, eroding the little capital we have without creating value. The government also needs to spread economic opportunities to more Zimbabweans because investment, economic development and building infrastructure (at a faster pace than what we are currently doing, a pace like Ethiopia is doing), not electionerring, is the only way to create jobs and raise the standards of living of all Zimbabweans. #StopElectioneeringAndBuildZim

Rutendo Matinyarare

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