As regional leaders gather in Durban for a SADC summit, migration is set to dominate after months of protests against undocumented migrants in South Africa.
The government says more than 89,000 people have been repatriated since March, leaving farms and wholesalers short of staff, with business groups warning orders are falling behind, and prompting diplomatic tensions with Ghana and Nigeria.
Al Jazeera’s Clement Manyathela reports from Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Ooooh shame… And yet the black South Africans are lazy. They can't work. All they do is dance everywhere even at funerals 😂😂😂
Good I'm sure the lazy south Africans can fill those jobs
There is MORE than enough labour in South Africa. LOL!!!!!
Lazy Xenophobic idiots chase out fellow africans from Africa soil yet they can't come forward to work.
All they want is free food, women and drink's
So they wanted the migrants gone so THEY could take their jobs…. but now when the migrants are gone they won't take the jobs anyways
Lol, what did they expect?
Don't comment if you're not South African. Those businesses only wanted migrants for cheap labor. They don't even want to pay minimum wage.
The only job remaining is that of King of Glutes.
So are all the business owners white? Black south Africans are busy dancing amanpiano😂😂😂..creating nothing..but it's their country though
So business is down. Yet the south Africans have Not taken the jobs? So they bullied and threatened their lives, yet the south africans still have Not taken those vacancies?😮
They will learn to not hire illegal foreigners in a country where youth unemployment ratenis above 40%.
What is not making sense is how the government had "nothing to do with it". Very interesting and foolish leadership over there in SA.. very interesting and foolish bunch of political leaders
Hate always hurts the hater more than the recipient of said hatred.
The media just keeps spinning lies and you get people in the comment section also adding onto the lies.
You are in a country illegally! Labour shortage or not you must be deported!
thank God, biased afrophobic mutaza is not reporting on this issue anymore. Lenin von chigbundu
So , let them super lazy South African bums fill in the vacant spaces now , ain't this what they wanted ? "Go back 2 your country," now they gone .
They are reaping what they sowed.
They are dull !!! They can't function
There are thousands of legal South Africans to take undocumented illegal migrants place. This is rediculous. No country can tolerate illegal migration
They. Suppose yo. Hire. South african, s. Stop..complaining
When we say these fools don't know what they want, people think we are joking .
What is going on with SA media? So many unemployed people and businesses are struggling to operate because packers are gone. What nonsense is this?
The prophets of doom at it again, aljazeera mind qatar’s businesses. SA is non of yours
As an American, I'm wondering: were those businesses paying South Africa's minimum wage (R30.23 / US$1.82) per hour to those illegal immigrants? I'd bet money that they were NOT, hence the drama unfolding in South Africa. While I don't condone the violence (which likely wouldn't have happened had the government been doing ITS job), South Africans have the RIGHT to determine who can enter their country.
Home Affairs should expedite legimitate residential and work permits.
More catastrophe is on the way
40% unemployment rate & they can't find replacement workers? Something doesn't add up.
Are all of the buisness owners in South Africa white ?
Let them suffer bcz of their actions. It karma shouldn't have employed undocumented foreigners at first place. Those business should be closed for good bcz they don't comply with the laws and regulations of South Africa 🇿🇦
No, they do not want undocumented migrants out. They want ALL migrants out. No distinction. Do not paper over the language of these xenophobic groups.
Let South Africa fall. They have had to many opportunities to do better yet they are lazy and very ignorant. Stop wasting time.
the people over profit…
Cheap labour practices…..SA is the only 1st world country in Africa please refrain from trying to sink it, stop cheap labour practices….. Africa my land
Now they are regretting and feeling stupid
Entitlement mentality at its best
So they are suffering because illegal immigrants are chased out now they have no one to exploit 😂😂😂
This is what they mean by even if all the illegals can leave our unemployment wont improve.
The Portuguese .but not africans ..
Should've employed locals and/or documented immigrants to begin with…
Undocumented migrants are easily exploited and paid far below the minimum wage, but they'll never talk to that
Welcome to Europe 😅😅
South Africa is moving backwards. Eventually the bushmen will reclaim the land
No more general debate just continue doing your thing 😂😂
Well, that didn’t take long. Now let’s see if any of those protesting South Africans will go and get those available jobs…or is it as we all expect? They don’t wanna do that kind of work
IF THESE SOUTH AFRICANS MOBS WANTS TO EXPELLED FOREIGN WORKERS, THEN LET THEM WORK ON THOSE POSITION, AND LET THEIR SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY SUFFER ALONG WITH THEM ALL!!!
These businesses are actually the ones who employed foreigners at lower wage rates instead of hiring S.a.ns at the proper wage. Let them show us documents of how much they were paying those foreigners.
We will be fine!
Any business thats anchored by illegality shouldn't survive!