Truck drivers in South Africa plan protests on key routes to Durban, demanding jobs for locals amid rising anti-migrant tensions. Violence has erupted in some areas, with businesses attacked and authorities tightening action against undocumented migrants.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports.
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islamists HAMBA !
Gee, i wonder how many illegal immigrants are welcomed with open arms in DOHA , the headquarters of Aljazeera
Lazy SF doesn't want to work.
How this country has gone from one of the best countries in africa to the worst to live in how the mighty have fallen 🤣🤣🤣
South Africa already has the right laws in place, like work permits and Critical Skills lists designed to protect local jobs, but they mean nothing because the government is completely useless and refuses to enforce them. Since they fail to enforce our laws and protect South African workers, we will use our power at the ballot box and vote them out.
The world is the land of expansion for mankind, you South Africans who are separated from the human race.
There is a place in South Africa where black people are not allowed. How happy are the people of that place? The black people of South Africa can't do anything for themselves, they just envy others.
Lazy people always find other people to blame for their own stupidity. Their colonizers own more than 80 percent of their lands and wealth in SA, 🤔🤔 xenophobic set people. They are basically running down their own economic.. I don't think they fully understand how business and economics work. A bunch of idiots… waiting for the government to do everything for them. How come those foreigners can set up businesses for themselves? And now they are looting their businesses. You can see they are the real criminals.
That's just theft, South Africans are worst than Nigerians and Somalians in my book.
We condemn any looting and demonstrators must protest peacefully. Praying for SA
This is government plan to destroy foreigners, thy stop giving us permit and tell public this people are illegal here, and the feedback is here and also government don't take action against them, if those people loot government loos nothing.
If the locals can ransack businesses and shops then which criminals again are they looking for among the foreigners? You are your own criminals.
These protests are the pretext and the foundation upon which South Africa will be taken over again by the west and white minority. We wait to see what happens in the next two to three years from now.
RECOLONIZATION IS COMING “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt. Cambon said, “Africa is our future,” but he is not African. That says everything. For too long, Africa has been treated not as a people to respect, but as wealth to exploit. Black people are too often valued not for their humanity, but for their labor, land, and resources. To keep control, outsiders sow self-hate, division, and conflict. That is divide and conquer. We see it in religion, tribalism, and colonial borders that still fuel xenophobia and fragmentation. If we do not unite, we will keep losing. Unity is our strength, our shield, and our survival. Watching from Seattle Ngiyabonga
As in the US and many other countries the government either ignored or flat-out ridiculed reasonable requests from citizens to address immigration issues.
Now people are resorting to Plan B , as they are tired of being ignored and ridiculed. It doesnt have to come to this but here they are.
100% governments to blame.
They break the law then expect the law to protect them.
BAN SOUTH AFRICANS FROM ALL THE COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD
DISGUSTING BEHAVIOUR
Meanwhile Europe is bringing in African migrants. They get free money, free home, and free healthcare. Come to Europe everything is free.
Immigrants are not the problem south africans are themselves within the continent the Most laziest humans
How do they come in de country without papers.
May be they are chasing away their fellow black Africans to make room for Gazans.
Shame on south Africa respect African bother 😮 white men happy when African divided stop
shameful on this level of hatred of foreigners in South Africa, what a country!!. please Nigerians leave that xenophobic rainbow colony.
Nothing will change for them even if all foreigners left. The stats are against them
South African freedom comes from Ethiopias so Why tournament for Ethiopias?
As kenyans we will stop supporting south Africans online. You're on your own now.
I fell sorry for that Kenyan
Oh no, so racist. Was this far right again? 😅
What is planned for June 30th? 🤣
cos they pay the immigrants below poverty and the actual citizens dont get chance. its not the migrants fault!
This is very bad,,We also have SA citizens in our countries…yet we don't dehumanize them…Why doing that ??
Izidakwa🥃‼️They don’t wake up for Monday work because they’re drunkards.
🇿🇦 IZIDAKWA
🇪🇹 ሰካራም
🇳🇬 àwọn ọ̀mùtípara
🇹🇼 酒鬼、醉漢
🇷🇺 пьяницы, алкаши, алконавты
※ SA-Blacks are lazy, drunk and diseased. Their women prefer Nigerians for their hardworking ethics. SA-Black men have bigger nyash than Sarah Baartman’s steatopygia.
And how shameful that in your own land you have to distinguish SA-Black vs SA-White. They hyphenated in their own land. Embarrassing! French, Russian don’t need to hyphenate with White.
Globalist,Globalism and everything in it is on it dieing stage.
Very sad situation. 😔
south African still colnizede whay White people live there ir is xenophobic
You arrived in South Africa with a visitor's visa. You didn't leave when it expired. Instead, you opted to be an asylum seeker. Years later, as an undocumented illegal foreigner, you claim xenophobia.
Are South Africans supposed to regard your status as legal? We all know it is not, by virtue of the decisions you took to take advantage and knowingly participate in criminal actions of breaking immigration laws.
Well done Ghana for caring for your people! This useless South African people.
Don't come to America
Black south Africans should expect serious revenge, all Africans should come together to support white south African independent, now ,i understand the reason, they want separate country inside south Africa,
I write this message from the United Kingdom as a Black man of African heritage, with deep respect for South Africa, its people, and its historic struggle for freedom.
But I must speak honestly.
There is something profoundly troubling about watching fellow Africans being harassed, threatened, attacked, or told to "go back home" simply because they were born in another African country. When Africans are targeted for being Nigerian, Ghanaian, Tanzanian, Somali, Kenyan, Zimbabwean, or from any other African nation, it is not merely an attack on individuals—it is an attack on the very principle of African unity.
South Africa occupies a special place in the heart of Africa. The world admired its struggle against apartheid. Millions across the continent celebrated when freedom finally arrived. African nations stood with South Africa in its darkest hours because they believed in a future founded on justice, equality, dignity, and human rights.
That is why these events are so painful to witness.
The question that echoes across Africa is simple: How can a nation that suffered so deeply under exclusion and discrimination tolerate the exclusion and discrimination of fellow Africans?
Many of those who have come to South Africa arrived with little more than hope, determination, and a willingness to work. They opened small businesses, invested their savings, created jobs, served communities, and contributed to the economy. They did not come as enemies. They came as Africans seeking opportunity through honest effort and enterprise.
The success of a Nigerian entrepreneur is not a threat to South Africa. The success of a Ghanaian trader is not a threat to South Africa. The success of a Tanzanian, Somali, Kenyan, or Zimbabwean business owner is not a threat to South Africa. Their success is evidence of African potential, African resilience, and African excellence.
No nation can claim leadership of a continent while remaining silent when fellow Africans are intimidated, attacked, or made to feel unwelcome. Leadership carries responsibility. Great nations are measured not by their power, but by their commitment to justice.
This message is not directed at all South Africans. Millions of South Africans reject xenophobia and believe in the values of unity and human dignity. This message is directed at those who spread hatred, those who incite division, and those who stand by when injustice occurs.
Africa's future will not be built through fear, resentment, or exclusion. It will be built through cooperation, mutual respect, economic partnership, and a recognition that our destinies are connected.
The world is watching.
Africa is watching.
History is watching.
And future generations will ask whether we chose division or unity, whether we chose hostility or brotherhood, whether we honoured the sacrifices of those who fought for freedom or forgot the lessons they taught us.
The answer to that question is being written today.
Let it be written with courage, justice, and respect for every African, regardless of which African nation they call home.
Just shoot illegals…
It’s a crisis manufactured by the politicians for point scoring by fuelling the emotions of the locals as the next elections are in November 2026. The losing group here will be the ruling party.
how can they tell this is documented foreign citizen while that one is not?