The South African government has warned young women not to fall for social media recruitment drives promoting job opportunities abroad.
This comes as a number of online videos by South African social media influencers advertising jobs for young women in Russia have gone viral.
In videos shared to millions of followers, several South African influencers encouraged women aged 18 to 22 to join a programme called “Alabuga Start” with vague promises of international careers, flights, housing and Russian language classes in a region in central Russia.
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We need Russian jobs, South Africa is dead economically, all jobs are reserved for illegal Allen's.
BUT THE A.N.C LOVE,ES PUTIN😅😅😅😅😅😅 LET THEM GO 😅😅😅SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦 FOREVER ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤…..!!
It's a BRICS imitative so what's the problem? Russia is a friend of Africa and especially S.A. 😂😂😂
Lol this is lies
These guys are all against russia, what nonsense
Show us proof of what you are saying
This is all western progranda. Stop spreading the russiophobic narrative. Summons the Russia-SA ambassador to get answers. This is poor journalism. Or has SABC bought by the EU. Von Der leyen was in Cape Town. And D.A pushing this through.. no vote for DA in 2026
Results of Following prostitutes & slay Queens 😂😂😂
looking at the comments I can see why South Africans are the easiest people to scam, you don't think
Dankie.
But the communists are your friends😂😂go and work for them at least you have a job that the anc can't provide.😂😂
No do Ukrainian woman being sex trafficked to SA unless they are lucky assembling drones in Ukraine that gets bombed by Russia….
Please SOUTH AFRICA is not a friend of Russia.
Those who like ANIMAL FARM system can individually be friends
Can't Russia take all our ANC leaders? That will be a big help.
Mkhwanazi, arrest all those influencers a s p
https://www.youtube.com/live/vbP4lTEnFy0?si=gsf-LpLuPXl0g8SZ russia is an alley of ANC
Check if this has no Ukrainian Mafia in it… they're masters in human trafficking… they prostitute their own women all over Europe…and children too, organ trafficking.
I believe its a scam by nato to hurt SA Russian relations
But The Government is in love with Comrade Russia, why would they put out a warning against their Big Ally !
Russians and Chinese hate blacks. Wake up ANC!
8 minutes of waffel.
Please don't speak bad about Ramaphosa's chommy/ gat gaba Putin 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The rise of unemployment in SA is causing desperation on SA citizens
Hw much money are they paying.
Russia is friend of all Africa. Freedom in Russia and freedom of speech in Russia ! Or not !
This not funny at all
These South Africa of ours ,when it is advertised on social media it is not flagged and then it must make news ,i guese it sells or the policians are involved
Why would anyone go to work in a country who has started a full fledged unprovoked war with its neighbor? They have stolen children from and unalived hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of people. Why would you all go to work with or for them. By the way African men and women have long been enslaved by business and families in the Middle East ( TODAY) so why would anyone fall for this in Russia? Huuuhh! whyyy? Why are Africans continue to fall for this? Next China will do the same thing and you all will fall for it. Noooo, have you not learned from history that they only time a non black country want Black people yo come to work is to Enslaved them. Then they don’t let them go back home until the debt is paid off or maybe never!!!! We can’t claim to be smart and keep falling for this trick.
I heard they work in warehouses making drones 😂
Women influencers trying to traffic other women where is women unity really 🙁😟😢