For more than three decades, attacks on immigrants have rocked South African communities. Recently, vigilante groups have embarked on widespread manhunts, looking to flush foreign nationals from major cities. Various countries and international bodies have condemned the violence targeting the noncitizens. On #TalkAfrica this week, we ask: Why are ordinary South Africans going after immigrants, many of whom are fellow Africans?
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SA Army and RDF who is is arebel ? Previous comments of SA president during DRC and M23 conflict ? Who can ans this?
Where is the attack? These politicians nonsense, we are not politicians, we are fighting our country silence invasion is real
People can be selective especially when it suits them this is not about immigrants it's about undocumented illegal immigrants. Simply go home fix your papers and try proper legal channels to visit our country
Sometimes l think we should listen to South Africans and extract Afrikans out of South Africa.
We should then focus on AfCFTA and Pan Afrikanism without SA. Start demanding that any multinational wanting to trade on the continent that wants to trade in non South African markets should have a headquarters either in Kenya, Rwanda or Ethiopia (or any other Afrikan country of their choosing).
I say this because what the xenophobic portion of South Africans do not understand is that there is an economic pull that comes with being a continental gateway country. People follow green pastures (they may not see their own country from this lens…but everyone from outside sees it plainly).
In my view, what they should be pushing for were l in their shoes… is easier documentation of immigrants. That way when a Ghanaian comes in he is free to work legitimately… then he/she pays an added tax on top of the normal tax for the “privilege”.
But they don’t think that far.. they just want to be angry and to inflict what they themselves were suffering from for decades prior.
But if I’m honest, this xen0phobia movement is probably being manufactured/manipulated by an external superpower. But unfortunately, those being co-opted on the ground are oblivious to this. And the irony is not lost on me that l too am also being co-opted… but it’s hard not to when the overwhelming messaging is that your people are the problem and being called cockroaches (the exact same name Hutus called Tutsis just before the Rwanda gen0cide comenced).
19:04 …and herein lies the true crux of the matter. He has squarely fingered the real issue… and l must say, it’s an Afrika-wide issue.
Different states have tried different levels to address this very post-colonial complexity (and failed).
At the meta level, all have failed because WE (Afrikans…were taught to other each other)… this current situation in South Africa is just but the latest flavor.
The White elite class has us in a chokehold. They are puppeteering us (me included) towards their agenda.
The real answer is for Afrikans to truly unite and work together in earnest (Ubuntu). No one should be superior to another…we all need one another.
But right now…it feels like South Africa needs to go it alone…and the rest of us can try fight this beast together outside of South Africa (hopefully, one day they will join us and see us as equals).
What hold you south Africans from starting the business in the first place..???
Stop that666 you show us lie you also you like when trump attacked Iran is is not xenophobia when china attack Northcote was ..when Russia & urecrane is not when when Nigeria was chasing ghaniasin 1060 1 million of them was not xenophobia when shona & ndebele chasing each other in Zimbabwe they where not xenophobia when Mozambique where under attack by Arabs we where there for them& died when congo was attack by rhawanda we where there for them 13 died now they are all here instead of solving the their problematic in their country im still under apartheid white colony if i fight them while you here all eden will die in one place south African is one government foreigner must govern their country we will unite when they strayv us
Count SA out of that unity🇿🇦✊🏿
Why was a member of the affected community not invited, mxm
Why the whole world calling South Africa are called Xenophobia in their country, are going sit there and look how our country throne apart and our people turn to zombies , hanging around at home and the other Black people left their African countries to come and ruined what South Africans they are trying to build their country, now do you want South Africa to look lik Congo or Nigeria , did South Africa go around the world undocumented and did they committed crime around the world, did they steal other countries Passports and using it to do crimes to the whole world, you can say what do you want about u South Africans and you want to come and dumb criminals using drugs human trafficking, killing and scamming our South Africa and their countries look clean and they are coming to telling us about Apartheit they help us with what they help us they didn't even want to see our South African on the streets the Whites they are telling us to fight with them , they are our whites South Africans, we have to keep quiet about Zimbabweans, and all other undocumented people to go back to their country even to go to Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and all other countries in Africa and the whole world we South Africans they want Visa and we have to leave them to come to South Africa for free, is only Trump can say the foreigners and immigrants they should leave America anywhere were you South African TV the time of the sickness HIV, the whole world was saying is from South Africa you never announce on the TV and come Corona you still never stoot with your country, is America, Europe even Indian they tell Nigerian to go they don't want them the whole world and you people your are only for cussing on South Africans fair enough even Malema and our President can't protect our South African Nations
ANIBIBUZANGA ELANGENI BADINIWE ABANTU.
We articulated …bring more
Malema makes sense.Political victory should ensure economic equality and land reform at the root cause .
Foreigner are very easy targeting by policiens who think only way to get votes from blacks SA citizens is to blame Africans no citizens and attack them, its happened every time when elections are near.
Why does the government allow others to come into the country. When the people there are in need.
It's sad how the people are being treated there because of the bureaucratic b. s. Your people need help.
Van Der Heever's contention is not supported by facts.
South Africa is hell for any foreigners. Many migrants are Africans and the are continuously attacked by south Africans. Do not go to that country. It is hell for African migrants.You will lose your life and your possessions.
Inequality
The issue of illegal immigrants needs to be handled with care if not this issue will create generational problems in SA first South Africa is still in the hands of whites who systematically manipulative Hence create a dependent South Africans and make South Africans thinks language and id book is more important than facing real daily challenges as they come.
If the issue is criminality, why target spaza shops, school children and pregnant women in hospitals?
SA needs to focus on the Zimbabwe playbook. Even think Zimbabwe was in a better position when they got independence. Every African coutry in the 80s envied Zimbabwe.
You are ignorant and narrow minded.!!!
Do not blame immigrants. Many companies have relocated since 1994 because of the
ANC's policies …reverse discrimination!!!
Affirmative Action is past its sell-by date !!!
Stop blaming the "WHITES" …They gave you "TOILET PAPERS"
You keep pointing fingers in the wrong direction. Stop blaming others. Live and let live !!!
The ANC are corrupt as corrupt can be !!!