'We cannot treat refugees like animals': Thulas Nxesi condemns Dudula campaign

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Labour minister Thulas Nxesi on Saturday said the government will not allow South Africans to treat foreign nationals like animals because they too have rights.

The discussion was prompted by questions from communities in the Ngaka Modiri Molema district in Mahikeng who had been invited to share their concerns about the state of their province.

Nxesi, who was one of about 12 ministers who accompanied President Cyril Ramaphosa, was referring to an incident in January when EFF leader Julius Malema embarked on controversialThe minister also condemned Operation Dudula, which started in Soweto last year and has since morphed and spread to inner Johannesburg and Hillbrow. The movement aims to root our illegal or undocumented foreign nationals, particularly those setting up shops and engaging in alleged criminal acts in the country.

“We are even starting to see this in the big retail shops, where they prefer to take non-SA nationals — not because they love them but because they want to exploit them and don't pay them the agreed salaries and benefits ... They are just exploiting cheap labour.” “We are dealing with that particular matter and the way to do it is to regulate it properly because we are a human rights country. We are a country which has signed a number of international obligations on how to deal with refugees. They also have human rights, we cannot treat them like animals.”“Countries like Kenya, Zimbabwe and Nigeria say no-one should be employed coming from the outside if there is somebody in that country who can do the job. We can only talk about the scarce skills.

 

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THULAS' RIP VAN WINKEL' NXESI. He was sleeping and when he wakes up he is blabbing gibberish.

U r a lost sheep,,,,,,,,,,,🐑

Are they refugees? Why do they go home Xmas and Easter holidays and if and when. Minister open your ears and eyes, this is going nowhere but escalating.

Refugees or illegal emigrants? An undocumented foreigner is breaking the law and should be arrested. What part don't you understand?

Let them be taken to Refugee camps if they are to stay in SA. We are tired of their Shenanigans

Refugees? Did he just label illegal immigrants as refugees?

Build Refuge Camps! And stop turning our Townships into refuge camps for illegal immigrants

When they treat South AFricans like shit now what

Fake refugees who go home every festive and behaves like animals.

What refugees?real refugees are kept in camps

Your refugees threatening prosecutor in Court

Fuseg Nxesi Fusek Fu. . .. .

Are they paying you guys something?

Bona how are they treating us 'ai this ANC yakhona'

We think we are better blacks in SA because the media tells us that.

This maphara they are kill our country every day and every minute we are tied with this government srs

It is true but law must take its roete

Foreigners who already turned the youth of this country into being zombies because of drugs?Why no one want to understand our concerns? Fokof mahn!!

Domkop this one, everytime he opens his mouth rubbish comes out, can't even define refugee. Does he have kid's, they should teach him, before he embarrasses them further

nawe Thulani Nxesi usitreat kanjalo singabasebenzi

Useless

They are throwing insults at us because it means they have to be brave and implement the laws they came up used to be a free ride for Politicians because they will not work enough .now they are angry at us because they have to work.

Domkop this minister's are fool of shit

Refugees? Really

NxesiThulas what are refugees?

What are refugees kanti?

Usho kahle phela uhlala kuma high walls NxesiThulas

Until this government realizes that it is elected by South African and not the UN and the World Bank, we are going to be struggling with basic and obvious this. It can't be business as usual, things have changed and we must adapt.

Who fooling Who, why would a brother treat a brother like an animal. What's with the xenophobic agenda. Why won't he intervene because they are payed beyond minimum wage in SA🤷🏽‍♂️

Where is the refugee camps?

Refugees?which ones?

Who's refugees here? Refugees is somebody who staying temporarily.

Refugees and illegal immigrants are not the same thing. Nxesi, you can’t use the two interchangeably. Our gripe is against ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS who don’t qualify to be in SA, and the nonsense that they do in our country. OperationDudula PutSouthAficansFirst

Cyril Ramaphosa must fullfil his elections promise first of creating millions jobs before we can start entertaining immigrants. PutSouthAfricanFirst OperationDudula

Oh what a useless minister mxm

Who is a refugee, ppl who go home on holidays and come back to our country illegally. Don't talk rubbish wena

Operation Dudula is the voice of the South African people. Dudula exposes the failure of the institutions that deals with immigration controls in SA. People are tired of talking now they want to see action. Phambilini ngo Dudula phambili.

How about we give those refugees R350 and allow South Africans to occupy all jobs in the market. OperationDudula PutSouthAfricanFirst

Refugees? What are they fleeing exactly? ancout VoetsekANC

Yeah they rather treat citizens like pigs with this stupid social grant and kick them out of the economic activities. We're all aware about ANC shenanigans. Illegal immigrants is the correct phrase, refugees is another issue, economic migrates must voetsek. OperationDudula

We Can't be slaughtered by refugees like animals

Mr Nxice we will teach you work like July 2021 you take South African stupid

He must accomodate them in his yards in different homes he owns, this bloody fool minister must be reshuffled with immediate effect.

Because his tummy is always full. He doesn't understand the pain of going hungry almost every day. These ANC ministers should start accepting the fact that people are now fed up. They cannot fool us anymore.

Aag that teacher knows nothing about governance.

So you rather treat us like refugees in our own country? We cannot be dictated to by the likes of Nxesi. Who does he think he is. Take your refugees to Zimbabwe with you together with the k Likes of Malema, Maimane and the rest crying Xenophobia

Are people from Nigeria, Zimbabwe refugees? What is a refugee exactly because this sleepiest minister seems not to understand what he is talking about.

Hey mani deshetol

This guy make me sick, he still doesn't get it.

Another pandemic is South Africa is the journalists, they always pushing a narrative never impartial

We know the difference between illegal foreigners and refugees NxesiThulas mustn't try and play clever

Enjoy your last 2 years as minister Nxesi, 2024 will show you flames shame. Niyasinyela nina

the animals here are south African youth .If you don't believe me go to marabastaad in PTA now , Nxesi obua moroko !

If they are refugees then I guess our townships are refugee camps coz they are all over terrorizing us. Never ra utlwa ka wena Mr Useless, we want them out!

🙋🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

Refugees?

I love how you keep de campaigning the ANC

people running from war in ukraine stop at the borders to register their presence, these ones we have in SA are lawlessness

This is what happens when drunkards are given positions of high importance.

Yes we agree Thulas what about our own people who struggle to get a bed, school for the sake of foreigners, Thulas you are a human waste

NxesiThulas kukhuluma imalile enigwazelwa ngayo. Ramaphosa ubole nabaningi please start packing your bags nawe. You can not decide for people you must listen to the people, take mandate, go implement. Do you have some brains sir? OperationDudula PutSouthAfricanFirst

Build Refugee Camp's

The South African Concerned Citizens (SACC) will show you something else.

No need to change labour laws,we want to continue with the ones that we have,we cannot change our constitution because of aliens.

Very few people who come to SA qualify for refugee status, there are no wars in the neighbouring countries, why would someone come all the way from Somalia to seek refuge in SA? Refuge should be sought at the nearest neighbouring country, not the wealthiest!

Tht one can go to hell.he is useless.let him go do what he do best.drink himself to sleep.drunkerd..

What are this man's qualifications.does he even know about the immigration laws in the constitution or maybe his responsibilities?

But they are allowed to treat us like animals.remember the six women killed in seshego.remember the table mountain murderer.

Economic migrants are not refugees. Refugees belong in refugee camps where psychologists can see and help them deal with the war traumas they had to flee from. Poor South African communities are not rehabilitation centres for refugees.

So somehow, the department of labour has run a census and concluded that it's refugees...if only they acted this quick to fix potholes

O bua boloko muhn.

So our people must be treated like animals instead? 😩😩😩guys, when are we voting ANC out? I’m tired of privileged people

We will meet at the voting station .You should inow better by the results of the previous local municipal elections

Can we get youth to understand the importance of voting, this madalas.

Fuck these so called leaders. Al that they condemn,is exactly what they're doing 2 majority blck pple who vote 4 them.When blck pple raise up 2 fight 4 themselves they're the first ones 2 condemn us.Yet they do everything in their given power 2 oppress us economicaly & financialy

I don't support Zenophobia, but the ANC government must know that they are creating these things and they must take responsibility and stop playing a referee here, people are frustrated and criminals are taking advantage.

This one is a shitter .

Nxesi is drunk, always spewing bile, wonder how did he even get this position, he lacks testicular fortitude, come 2024 we show them the door, SAn are tired, we want proper and capable leadership to enforce our laws, no country in the world accepts illegal immigration but SA 🤦🏾‍♂️

We wouldn't be in this kind of shit ,if they were doing their fucken jobs. Tsek, domkop

Just for good measure Which neighbouring country is at war ?

Justification of animals being treated bad is really sick coning from a money sucking minister like him .and whose mistreating refugees?

Watch us!

NxesiThulas and refugees PresidencyZA can't you get people who can put South Africans first.Thulas can even pronounce illegal foreigners instead he is forcing us with Refugees. We are talking about illegal foreigners. Doing domestic works, Gardening services, drivers, waitress

What refugees? Those are economic migrants !!🚮🚮🚮

Which refugees? Where are refugee camps because that is where they are supposed to residing . We have illegal immigrants that have infiltrated our country and they are committing crimes left right and center. Minister of unemployment talking nonsense at usual

They're fcking animals though so fck nxesi

Does this stupid minister a South African citizen

NxesiThulas must be fired if he wants to his own rules OperationDudula is going nowhere. We still say PutSouthAfricanFirst

Drunken master Nxesi always vomiting as usual

Useless minister,hlogo ye ya gago e kgolo for mahala, a e nagane selo.

NxesiThulas who are refugees in SA? We refused to host real Refugees from Afghan because you are hosting million economical migrants..

NxesiThulas you have a mandate to execute, we are on the verge of becoming a failed state and you still promote lawlessness. Hayi you are a clueless minister

Refugees yes...Not illegal foreigners misbehaving

So people keep on voting for this nonsense vele?

I don't blame him, I blame the people who keep voting his party back into control.

Yet you treat illegal immigrants as royalty and South Africans as animals

Which refugees is he talking about?

Fusegi

99% are not refugees they are economic migrants

South Africa does not belong to Thulas Nxesi, he must so maar go with them.

But you can treat South Africans like animals.

Re etile pele ke ditlaela tša bakgalabje maan!

There are laws to be followed NxesiThulas ,you can’t run this country through emotions.Illegal immigrants are not ‘Refugees’. We don’t care if you refer them as animals but enforce current labor laws. OperationDudula PutSouthAficansFirst

JayJayN17 illegal immigrants are not refugees though

No one did..All.we want is for a our country's laws to be respected and enforced. We want to be put first in our country (Basic common sense) , Instead so called Refugees are treating us like animals..They rape, kill, run unregistered businesses, sell fake /rotten goods

Tell your government to build refugees camps like every country,Stop integrating illegal people In our communities....

JayJayN17 Arresting and deporting illegal foreigners has nothing to do with animals,this buffoon needs to learn to us his brain every once in a while 🤡.

How dare you play almighty when you have ignored South Africans sovereign rights re health, education & employment! Youre on wrong side of fence mister, start packing as 2024 will come sooner than you think!! We asked you to maintain SA countrys laws but you throw it back at us!

No we cannot,but Mr Nxesi would rather treat Sans like animals.

But their original governments have been treating them like animals... They're used to it

NxesiThulas keep pushing and you and the rest of the ANC will be homeless come 2024. PutSouthAfricansFirst OperationDudula

But there is now war at their country of origin so their not refugees

He makes sense. Nxesi must tell his pathetic, demagoguery Aaron Motsoaledi, who is inflamming this Operation Dudula with his misguided xenophobic rants, to stop this nonsense.

Whites came here through colonial means, dispossessed us of our land, exploited us in our land, so they are the real animals.

That is the problem with old people who are hungry for power. In 2024 we going to remove people like him from cabinet. Anc is going to fall in 2024 and very hard.

They are illegal

I support them

They behave like animals so they must be treated like wise.

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