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Posted on 06/26/2026 10:31:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Aforce of 10,000 inspectors is being recruited to weed out foreigners: door-to-door across the nation, they will check mines, factories and shops, rounding up those without papers for deportation. Oh, and the target will be black people!
Trump madness? Marine le Pen? No, this is South Africa and a project launched by President Cyril Ramaphosa to expel millions of black migrants from across the rest of Africa who have jumped the border or overstayed their visa.
It’s Africa’s answer to ICE, though you won’t find many people protesting: quite the opposite.
Government and the police are desperate to demonstrate they’re on top of the problem; to assuage the rising rage of native South Africans, and try to stop them taking matters into their own hands.
But it’s too late for that. Things have already turned nasty. Shacks lived in by foreign workers are being torched and vigilante groups block access to schools and clinics, demanding to see proof of residence. One outfit March & March has laid down a deadline of 30 June, this coming Tuesday, for undocumented migrants to leave, or face violent eviction.
“Shutdown, 30 June” reads a poster. “All Spaza shops must shut. They’re poisoning our communities and killing our kids.” Spaza refers to any type of informal trader.
For the South African government, demonstrating they have a plan to cope with the incomers is crucial for their survival. There’s an election coming up.
On 4 November SA will vote for councillors across its 257 municipalities and the African National Congress (ANC) that has dominated politics since democracy arrived in 1994 is polling just 30 percent in the biggest city, Johannesburg.
The president has announced new laws with fines of up to £40,000 for employers who hire undocumented workers, but it’s unlikely to be enough.
In America, where everything is about racism and racism is about color, it’s almost impossible to imagine that black people can be racist.
But that in itself is insulting and you can’t hope to understand South Africa’s predicament if you start from there. Just as the French and Germans share a skin color but are not the same people, so black Africans are divided into endless races with languages different as Russian and English.
Unlikely as it sounds, South Africa is a victim of its own success. At $500bn (with a population of 65 million) it has a GDP similar to Minnesota (population, 6 million).
But relative to other parts of Africa, this counts as extraordinary. It is the continent’s only diversified market, with cars a major export and most goods are manufactured here. Kenya, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia also do well but on a land-mass of 55 countries there’s a chronic shortage of jobs because so little is produced.
Nigeria may look good on paper but 88% of its export revenue comes from oil. Walk through a supermarket in Lagos and everything from tinned fish to frozen peas is imported. This lack of industry drives unemployment and an exodus in search of work, a fair proportion heading to South Africa.
For context, the economy of the City of Johannesburg alone is larger than South Africa’s six land neighbors combined. And the bulk of illegals are from those countries, notably Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Lesotho. And still they enter, pushing up rents in the townships where a majority of black people live, taking school places, filling hospital beds.
South Africa has its own rampant unemployment so wages are low, but foreign workers are attractive to employers. They’ll do the same job, not always for less but they’re unlikely to go on strike or take time off to care for children: it’s standard across Africa now for mums and dads to work abroad while grandparents stay in the home country to raise the kids.
At the general election in 2024, the ANC went from a parliamentary majority to just 159 of the 400 seats and now governs in coalition with its main rival, the Democratic Alliance (DA) and their 87 MPs. In a split of portfolios, the DA – which enjoys the largest share of white votes – got Home Affairs, the ministry in charge of births, deaths and immigration. The minister, Dr. Leon Schreiber, was born in SA but with a doctorate from the Free University of Berlin.
Schreiber has curbed the once rampant corruption at Home Affairs and on his watch deportations have jumped 46% in the past two years and he describes himself as “irrevocably committed” to enforcing the law. Just under 58 000 people were expelled last year which sounds good but has made no difference on the ground. Park your car in any town or city and a young foreigner will be at your elbow offering to guard it for less than a dollar.
Ghana and Nigeria have sent planes to ferry home their nationals home and more than a thousand have already been flown out, but there’s no discernible difference.
Numbers are hard to pin down, but estimates of Zimbabweans alone hover around three million from what was once the “breadbasket of Africa,” now crippled by decades of misrule.
The media here leans Left and editorials have long used an official figure of just 3.5m foreigners – defending their presence in the name of tolerance – while protestors cite 30m which is also nonsense. But visit a market, or a beer hall where black people drink and the density of non-nationals becomes clear, not all of them from greater Africa.
In the remotest village, newly arrived Pakistanis on asylum permits have set up shops competing with locals. They’re unlikely to integrate and when the riots kick off, as seems certain when the June 30 deadline arrives, their stores are the first to be looted.
Islamic State is waging war in northern Mozambique and the government has introduced conscription of up to five years for male school leavers in an army short on both pay and rations. So thousands have fled, some carrying their guns, bound for South Africa.
In wars from the Congo to Cameroon, refugees head for Jo’burg. With almost no welfare, their choice is crime or to seek work, and having found a job they are desperate to keep it, toiling long hours for whatever pay they can get.
South Africa itself is divided along tribal lines. It has 11 official languages with Zulus the largest ethnic group at around 20%. There is no racial majority but there have been increasing calls for the province of KwaZulu Natal to secede. Its royal family dates from the late 1700s whereas South Africa was only founded as a nation in 1910. And it is in Zulu-speaking cities like Durban that violence against foreigners has been the worst.
At one park in Durban, what began early June as a trickle of evicted illegals from Malawi rapidly passed 4000. There are horror tales of midnight invasions, clothes tossed onto bonfires and Zulus with whips chasing foreigners out of townships.
But non-Zulu South Africans are also being warned to leave including Swazis, Tswanas and Vendas from the president’s tribe whose home area is 500 miles away on the border with Zimbabwe.
To dismiss the country as xenophobic is to radically misunderstand. The problem is far worse than that. South Africans have lost faith in their government and vigilantes are viewed as heroes.
Ramaphosa’s proposal for 10,000 inspectors has not cooled the mood. In cities where so many live crowded in shacks and going to bed hungry, it was only a matter of time before a justifiable anger boiled over into riots and attacks. The presence of illegals, and more arriving all the time, means the frustration grows daily.
Justice minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has said that she has no plan for the protection or “special treatment” of migrants beyond “general policing.” And now SA has a murder rate in the top-10 globally and worse than Haiti with no evidence that outsiders are to blame.
Even if Pretoria had a magic wand to expel all foreigners in a flash, it would be unlikely to save the ANC at November’s vote. The country’s too far gone for that. The very real danger that must now be faced is not immigration but war between citizens and the newcomers and ultimately between South Africa’s own ethnic groups, fanned by opportunistic politicians and hideous levels of unemployment they do nothing to fix.
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The very real danger that must now be faced is not immigration but war between citizens and the newcomers and ultimately between South Africa’s own ethnic groups, fanned by opportunistic politicians and hideous levels of unemployment they do nothing to fix.
Blacks can’t be racist or wrong. Anywhere.
“Nigeria may look good on paper but 88% of its export revenue comes from oil. Walk through a supermarket in Lagos and everything from tinned fish to frozen peas is imported. This lack of industry drives unemployment and an exodus in search of work, a fair proportion heading to South Africa. “
Two refineries were given to Nigeria as part of mineral leases. All the time they were there they never ran. To keep the failed refineries a “secret” Shell Oil usually kept a tanker full of product offshore over the horizon.
Investigations would find that a high percentage of the people arrested in Africa are black, a very high percentage, higher than other parts of the world, the U.N. should look into it.
Imagine how bad it must have been to WANT to move to SA from wherever they were...cuz SA is a shthole.
His Holiness could well be in the dark about the issue.
“Shutdown, 30 June” reads a poster. “All Spaza shops must shut. They’re poisoning our communities and killing our kids.” Spaza refers to any type of informal trader.
Spaza shops, also known as tuck shops, originated in Apartheid-era South Africa when enterprising historically disadvantaged individuals were restricted from owning formal businesses, they began setting up informal, micro-convenience shops from their homes to serve their communities’ daily needs in the townships.[1][2] Spaza is a generic Northern Sotho colloquial term, meaning hidden or camouflaged.[3][4]
“Well, that’s different” US liberals would say (though I doubt our MSM will ever mention this in the first place).
Are there any Chinese operations in SA, like ‘mining’ for example?
Pope Leo spoke out against mass deportation in the USA. I’d like to hear him say something about South Africa...
“I ain’t gonna play Sun City!”
South African blacks oppose influx of new blacks from elsewhere in Africa
Most likely.
same here?
"South Africans have lost faith in their government and vigilantes are viewed as heroes. "
Soon to be same here?
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