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@markmywords He was given by DA

South Africans don’t support this appointment. Ramaphosa is on the wrong side of history.

@baba_nyenyedzi Good post but nextime just a summary

Migration crisis or its something much bigger? The migration crisis appears to have caught South Africa and its neighbours unawares. The only commendable action has been the movement of people back to their home countries. In Zimbabwe, at least 35,000 citizens have moved back over the last week on their own volition. But this will only quieten the pressure temporarily before the reality on the ground pushes people back towards South Africa. The danger in South Africa is real, but the other danger of dying from poverty is more stark. From my vantage point, those protesting do so against immigrants and hardly directly a call for jobs. Their real bargain, as occurred after the 2008 protests, appears to have been for higher social benefits or grants. Which if history is anything to go by, will happen, albeit, ironically making it even more difficult for the economy to create jobs. Or if you like, easier and cheaper to employ foreigners. Our interest is in the labour markets. The expansion of the grant system has become central to the South African state especially after the Xenophobic attacks of 2008. The expansion of SASSA, including the inclusion of domestic and agricultural workers, saw claims increase significantly. The politicians thought this would calm the storms, but it only fed the monster. Admittedly, the 2008 financial crisis added pressure, but whereas much of the world saw welfare recipients decline after the financial crisis, SA’s numbers continued to balloon and the surplus in the Unemployment Insurance Fund turned into a deficit for the first time. What did the state do? Realising the contributory UIF system could not protect those who had never worked before, the government launched Phase 2 of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in 2009, targeting 4.5 million short term, labour intensive job contracts. At the same time, European do-gooders and NGOs pushed for a universal or means tested Basic Income Grant to address structural gaps in the system. In 2020 the emergency social relief of Distress was introduced and our do-gooders NGO's are lobbying to make permanent. The difficult question remains: where does the money come from? Instead of focusing primarily on expanding cash transfers, the focus should have been on businesses, investment and policies that create jobs. The grant system distorts the labour market, creating incentives to withdraw from some work while also creating space for illegal immigrants willing to work in domestic work, hospitality and agriculture, where employment is seasonal and unpredictable. These are hard decisions that the South African government must make. Yet, it is the same government that appears to think keeping Starlink away from South Africa is a good thing. It fails to see the jobs, opportunities and tax revenue that investment creates. Investors look at whether the policy environment allows them to participate. And right now BEE laws are a tax to investors. SA like Africa need FDI to grow 10X. The European policy framework has also permeated Africa. When looking at Sub-Saharan Africa the region has gulped the spoon feeding. Europe has 100% electrification and a per capita income of around $40,000, while Sub-Saharan Africa has a roughly 40% electrification rate, 500 million people living under extreme poverty and almost 80% of the population classified as poor. Yet who sponsors and maintains a permanent seat in Africa’s treasury? The European do-gooders who read The Guardian and are repulsed by coal and nuclear powered energy. They encourage Eurobonds and African bonds are often oversubscribed, but this comes with caveats. African governments cannot fund coal and nuclear energy. DEI and ESG mandates follow, despite evidence that these approaches have struggled in Europe itself. If not downright failed as the Scientific Beta survey and research has showed. The irony is that Africa can never compete in manufacturing when energy costs are high and European fair use policies and over regulation apply. Industrialisation requires affordable energy, yet Africa is encouraged to follow restrictions imposed on nations that became wealthy through abundant energy. The same pattern can be seen in technology. Europe has failed to lead in the AI race, while America is investing $600bn into this new technology. The same instincts are being exported to Africa: overregulation, excessive caution and new welfare mandates before wealth creation has taken place. This is not an excuse for African governments still trapped in Maoist and Leninist revolutions. Their socialism has killed much of the impetus for growth. One would think they would learn from present day China. Yet many want Chinese money and not Chinese reforms. The lesson of the immigration crisis is simple: growth matters. Not slow growth. Not redistribution of scarcity. The kind of growth that transforms societies, 10%-20% or more. Because without growth, every other promise becomes an argument over who receives a share of a shrinking pie.

@grahammullane57 @SkyNews Don't give up, protest until government feel pressure

@SkyNews Are they far right Nazi racist or is that just for white people

Anti-immigration protesters are calling on undocumented foreign nationals to leave South Africa by 30 June. Authorities are working on transporting individuals to the border. news.sky.com/world

@MarkB7109683170 @SkyNews We are being called Xenophobia, but south Africans no longer care anymore

@SkyNews So in South Africa there anti-immigration protesters but when its the UK its far right racists???? Sly news at it once again.

@macmisanthrope @SkyNews Put pressure and put a 6 months deadline

@SkyNews Should be the same in Britain alone with ALL foreign criminals but that would need a govt with a backbone.

@Thagreatleo @SkyNews So what happened when there's influx of uncontrollable number in the country. And government lost control or have no appetite to deport them or entertain them

@SkyNews Its simply the Government of the Republic of South Africa, it is their policy, not by protesters. They are hiding behind protesters!

@Squarerigght1 @SkyNews Step 5

@SkyNews They are on step 4.

Good morning my fellow South Africans 🇿🇦❤️, if anyone has employment opportunities, internships, learnerships, apprenticeships, mentorship programmes, bursaries, graduate programmes, or entry level positions available across any industry for our bright South African youth, kindly share them in the comments below. 🇿🇦 With love a patriotic South African #FutureLeaders #SouthAfricanYouth #YouthEmployment

@osasuo A deal went wrong

Kristallnacht is going on in #SouthAfrica. Sad…

@The_Vimbai Ya but it was not millions 😄 atleast 300 000k

South Africa granted millions of undocumented Zimbabweans amnesty and residency through the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits almost a decade ago. This regime continues to get extended. Zimbabweans are the last group of people who should be castigating South Africans right now.

@G_africaS @FinPlanKaluAja1 @pat_smot 1983 Go back to Ghana , over 90 were killed and dispersed. History doesn't have black pages

@FinPlanKaluAja1 @pat_smot So what's wrong with going home and get proper documentation, there was no need to wait until this moment, problem with Nigerians and Zimbabweans is the disrespect and ungratefulness. If I come to Nigeria and start saying you lazy, you sell drugs, you ll chase me out.

No Nigerian would ever attack or harass another foreign Black man in Nigeria because he is an immigrant or outsider. It's alien to us; we can't even conceive of it. We may not have a GDP of $100 trillion or high-speed rail, but when we say we are “Giants of Africa,” it's because we have bled and shed for Africa unequivocally and individually. We didn't help South Africa fight Apartheid because we wanted to migrate to Durban; we did it collectively because it was the right thing to do. We ask for nothing more than basic respect. Proud.

@ghanaboynie Ghana has always been a problem od floods

Sad day to be employed in Ghana . - A Ghanaian 🇬🇭 A Ghanaian speaks on 6/29/2026 flood. #Ghana #Ghananews #GHupdates #GHdiscussions #WestAfricaflood 🎥 @ nottherealtheotv

@ej4_ea @ThisIsColbert Why?

@ThisIsColbert Stop using the word undocumented simply use "foreign African nationals ".

WHAAAT!? 😳😳😳 South Africans already started replacing illegal foreigners at work? Wow!

@MathewCohenSA wits.ac.za/news/latest-ne…

You say that migrants are about 4% of the population, but is that just those who are in the country legally? If so, then 4% is inaccurate. If you ARE including illegals, then this statistic has been made up. How can you have statistics on people who are literally undocumented?

@LwaziLam @fridaydrinks_ @baba_nyenyedzi Eish and he just extend his term of office

@fridaydrinks_ @baba_nyenyedzi You need capital from South Africa and one day Mnangagwa and Zanupf might decide to confiscate my capital and land in Zimbabwe, who will invest in such an unstable environment.

Zimbabwe needs capital for economic growth. 🎙️@baba_nyenyedzi "The reality is that over the next 10 to 20 years, if Zimbabwe's economy is not growing, more people are going to go to South Africa." What does Zimbabwe actually need? According to @baba_nyenyedzi: "Zimbabwe needs capital. But we don't have the framework for capital to be happy in Zimbabwe." Zimbabwe needs to create the policy framework that gives investors the confidence to deploy capital. 📺 Watch @baba_nyenyedzi, @dziya_mya and @rufarogz discuss why attracting capital is critical to Zimbabwe's economic future, and how it relates to South Africa's immigration debate. Sponsored by @DairibordLtd

@professorSMM But, they need to coach him to learn to speak more English from now on

Most European/S.American players speak in Portuguese, they don’t care who understands. Our players must normalise speaking their mother’s tongue.

@bozzie_t Is this Japa

Africans need to fix their governments, this is not on.

@Olivia_LaGrange @JacintaNgobese Why? Give reasons

I understand now why so many Muslim NGO's want to sue @JacintaNgobese 🙄

@AbangMercy She is based in New York

Nigeria has one of the largest numbers of undocumented migrants in Africa apart from perhaps Uganda, from Chad to Cameroon,but you can never see a black man ask another black man where are you from? For all her failings, I am incredibly proud to be Nigerian. We don’t do that here

@PatienceMasete @AbangMercy They don't unfortunately. They don't understand the control of migration benefits

@AbangMercy And you don't see anything wrong with that? How do you project hospital budgets? Education, police and social development if people are undocumented? How do you procure medication? How do you collect Taxes?