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Various organizations under the #PutSouthAfricaFirst banner are marching to the Nigerian and Zimbabwean embassies to call for locals to be given priority.
Small civil society groups are marching from Church Square in Pretoria to the Nigerian Embassy on Wednesday, September 23, 2020. They are protesting against human trafficking and illegal aliens. Photo: Abigail Javier / EWN
PRETORIA – Some South African organizations and ordinary citizens have gathered at the Pretoria CBD on Wednesday to call for massive action against illegal immigrants and an end to what they call the abuse of South African diplomacy.
Amid widespread economic decline, devastating unemployment levels and rising crime levels in South Africa, protesters are stoking the fire on migrants.
Various organizations under the #PutSouthAfricaFirst banner are marching to the Nigerian and Zimbabwean embassies to call for locals to be given priority.
#PutSouthAfricaFirst Ike Khumalo, addressing the social ills South Africans face. She says the government has put the security of the country and its people at risk. VM pic.twitter.com/iKndhw6ch2
– EWN reporter (@ewnreporter) September 23, 2020
#PutSouthAfricaFirst The group is expected to march to the Nigerian and Zimbabwean embassies in Pretoria. VM pic.twitter.com/iOSYvfCFaS
– EWN reporter (@ewnreporter) September 23, 2020
Put South Africans first – that’s what a group calling itself Only One SA demands.
Holding banners and waving South African flags, citizens like Ike Khumalo said the state rewarded foreigners with jobs and businesses rather than deporting them.
“Everything we want, they want. We cannot give work to the entire continent. We are competing in the hospital, if you want to see an orthopedic, you must wait until February of next year because there are illegals in front of you.” immigrants. They want to board a train, they have destroyed the train infrastructure. They want Eskom, they have destroyed them. There is no one Constitution that can serve everyone. Who are everyone? “
Others here said that his manifestation was not aphrophobic or xenophobic, but a call for law and order.
“It is not a xenophobic march, we are here against human trafficking, drug trafficking and against illegal immigrants.”
The group is expected to deliver a memorandum of demands to the Nigerian and Zimbabwean embassies.
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