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Correct term to use is 'illegal immigrants' & don't try to sugar coat this by trying to sound smarter. People that are in a country illegally remain to be addressed as 'illegal' until it is proven otherwise
Why don’t we just call hijacking “irregular possession” ke?
U can use that term in ur house. Say after me: illegal immigrants. Now breathe out!!!😂😂😂
😂😂So stealing is probably 'irregular shopping'
They are Illegal Immigrants, they crossed our border without permission and the correct documents. They dont belong in SA. In any other country in the world, they will be tracked down and deported back to there country of origin. It is as simple as that. Don't sugercote it.
As if that would make them legal immigrants😏😏
Tsek amakwerekwre
our public health, schools, etc. overwhelmed with illegals and our people cannot get services while our government languishes in laziness/corruption. Go do your damn job and bring significant stats to us to illustrate how bad it is instead of telling us how to speak.
they're illegal they shouldn't be here. they don't have the required documentation and permissions. don't try to dumb down/tell us how to speak and obfuscate that we are swamped with ILLEGALS due to poor ANC governance/ border control. This has huge ramification on our economy.
What's wrong with ILLEGAL?
The problem in this country is that we want to be politically correct on everything. Illegal means exactly that, ILLEGAL. There is no need to decorate it.
By all cost you can't face the true and you make sure to sugar coat even the words.fact is remain.illegal immigrants will remain illegal the correct term to use to who?
Illegal foreigners slaps well. Why trying to put cosmetics on it?
Still doesn't change anything. They are illegal.
Why sugar coat
His department can call them that. And we will call them illegal immigrants because they violate our immigration laws and shouldn't be there.
That Diego Mara-Iturralde can take his non soccer talent & correct terminology & shove it where the sun doesn't shine...
Name won't change the reality
Where in the world has this word called irregular immigrants been used? He must go invent his words in his fathers house not play house with SA. No wonder this institution now produces trash reports.
😂 Media in SA is very childish. This Chief Director is really an undercover agent who is happy to see the havoc of illegal immigration consume SA to nothing but pure trash. I would have ordered his firing.
If these immigrants don't have the necessary documents to be here they are illegal. There is no half half.
Ituralde can go hang with his stupid concocted terminology...these people are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS , period
Diego iturralde
Fokof
If they are illegal they are illegal.
our public health, schools, etc. overwhelmed with illegals and our people cannot get services while our government languishes in lazines/corruption. Go do your damn job and bring significant stats to us to illustrate how bad it is instead of telling us how to speak. voetsek
they're illegal they shouldn't be here. they don't have the required documentation and permissions. don't try to dumb down/tell us how to speak and obfuscate that we are swamped with ILLEGALS due to poor ANC governance/ border control. This has huge ramification on our economy.
Please post full article, some of us can't afford to subscribe. Our money is all paid to SA government and municipalities in Rates and Taxes!!! This is while these illegals enjoy their rights and our infrastructure that is paid for by our taxes.
Sebono
Change the porous Constitution
Illegal immigrants.
So we dnt have rights. I am glad they dnt buy City Press
Rights in their countries
What do you mean by IRREGULAR immigrants
Fokof they have rights in their countries fok sa media
Karabo Ledwaba, shame on you. Why place ILLEGAL with IRREGULAR?
What is an 'irregular immigrant'? Phela ya'll media fools have a tendency of trying to make 'illegal immigrant' sound sexy
What the faak is 'irregular' now since when the word illegal equates to irregular?
AnElectricLady whoever wrote this o tsubile hempe ya mnangwagwa
South Africa was created in 1910 by whites and it have been recognized as a country by the UN which means, it's laws are bound by UN Nation. Any country in the world is bound by UN human rights laws.
It was undocumented immigrants, now it is irregular immigrants. So what type of immigrants is irregular immigrants?
Kunyoko mgodoyi
Now you are just pushing too hard and insulting the intelligence of the people. Stop this nonsense
What irregular have rights you need to close your news offices fire your journalist and open your offices as irregular news media in the countries of the irregular immigrants and report your nonsense there.
They are illegal immigrants, that is why I will never subscribe to this nonsense
Every law breaker has rights but why you calling them irregular immigrants? Who in the office came up with this? lol
What is irregular immigrants?
Yes they do, they have a right to be deported
That but nje “ irregular” is problematic just say illegal simple
Irregular immigrant? SA media is kak,
When you come into a country outside the law you should no longer enjoy its protection
What the fuck is an irregular immigrant? Call a spade a spade and say illegal immigrants. Tshini!
Y'all keep inventing new words to describe the same thing. 'Illegal Immigrants'. 🤣
What's an irregular immigrant? 🤔👀
ILLEGAL immigrants.. spare us the word jargon! call them what they are.. and yes they have rights, so does South Africa!! we have a right to deport them
irregular you mean illegals?
Pathetic headline, you must be on drugs..
They should be given newspaper in the toilet.
Irregular immigrants, sies pathetic journalism
Imagine 😭😩 “Award winning journalist”
Now they wanna be called irregular immigrants 😂 what's wrong with this country? No, you're an illegal immigrant or alien!
Fokof nina
Not here,in their countries. You love defending crime
They had no rights to enter SA, but have rights once they are here. Tsek!
Rights to do whatever the legal procedures are.
What th f is irregular?
majesti_za what is an 'irregular immigrants' jwale wena?...Where did you study journalism, INTEC COLLEGE via correspondence?🙄
🤣🤣 …Irregular!!
You can be creative and use crafty words but okusalayo they are illegal immigrants. Amakwerekwere have no rights in SA
Rights where
You mean 'Illegal' immigrants?
Fusegani zinja. Only in SA. Yeah they have right to life, but have no right to invade our country
Rights tsa masepa
Voetsek!!!
They don't have rights in our country
Illegal immigration is a crime
Well they have rights on their own country,not here on our country 🇿🇦 to us they're criminals who forces to be part of the country 🇿🇦 and it's a sickening thing cos 1 would wonder hore WTF is wrong with RSA 🇿🇦 law enforcement?🤷🏾♂️
Irregular 🤣🤣🤣
I'm all for press freedom, but to go to an extent that you coin a term that will seek to normalize wrong doing in our country is dispicable. SA Journalists and Politicians are for lawlessness & misery, they don't want this country to prosper.
Voetsek Karabo Ledwaba....and you call yrself a journalist🤮🤮🤮 Find us the peace of Legislation that talks about 'Irregular Migrants' You don't go aroumd creating non existent terms so that you excuse criminal activity. ILEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A CRIME
😂😂😂 this is soooo low!🤦🏽♀️ stop this nonsense🚮
Rights to invade SA? Why bother with Immigration Laws or any law for that matter if ppl can just enter SA illegally?
Go to DRC and repeat that statement....o nnyee nnyyiiii
Rights where?
In their countries, yes
They are ILLEGAL immigrants. They are ILLEGAL immigrants. They are ILLEGAL immigrants. They are ILLEGAL immigrants. They are ILLEGAL immigrants. They are ILLEGAL immigrants. They are ILLEGAL immigrants. They are ILLEGAL immigrants. They are ILLEGAL immigrants.
AnElectricLady, really 'Irregular Immigrants' note that illegal immigration is a crime. O a swabisha!
They have the right to stay in their country, and we as South Africans have rights too, we have the right to be put first in our country. Why should we be scared for foreigners in our own country? Why should we be treated like 2nd hand citizens in our own country?
They have the right to remain in their own countries✅ There are solid conditions in international Relations that permit acceptance of migrants; however there is no famine & no civil war across Southern African states so why are we receiving migrants, there is no justification
'irregular'. My word...We have a a way of 'spicing' kak💩 in South Africa neh...
Niyanya
So irregular immigrants is the new term for illegal immigrants We might as well call shoplifters unconventional redistributors since we can also say that they are victims that had no choice but to steal Forget MYANC VoetsekSAMedia are true advocates of lawless in SA
Whoever wrote this article is really sick
'irregular '🤣😂
What a joke of a country South Africa is
In which country not in 🇿🇦RSA. We are proud xenophobic.
Yes the right to be deported back home. Stop forcing things, we have laws that need to be followed by all.
What is irregular immigrants? You’re attempt at political correctness just confirmed the low standards of journalism happening at ..Do poor South Africans constantly pushed to the side to favour and protect illegals have rights too?...🙄🙄🙄
Everyday we wake up to new crime modernized terms
'Irregular' is that the new term for illegal immigrants!?...
You can’t be illegal and claim to have rights. They come here illegally and stupid NGOs then declare the to have rights when what they do is to burden the service delivery process and are generically involved in all sorts of crimes
Irregular immigrants can fuck the right off to tjeir countries
What's 'irregular immigrants' can someone enlighten me?
AnElectricLady there's no such thing called 'irregular migrants' in our Immigration laws , same as 'economic refugee'. Its all made up words by people like you who support criminality.
eNCA and the rest of the incomplete, dishonest SA media, aided and abated by the woke academics and universities are the enemies of black SAns PutSouthAfricaFirst OperationDudula OnsBaizaNie Action4SA VoetsekANC VoetsekEFF
🙄 really now, you're inventing new words. These people are illegal in the country and should be deported. Try what Pres of Rwanda is doing, you could learn a thing or two.
Your propaganda is the reason for wars 🧨
Does your irregular cockroaches have rights in their own countrys,do they commit all henius crimes which they commit here in their own countrys,as far as i know,theres no such nonsense called irregular immigrants.fotsek with your propaganda Msunuyenu,its illegal/legal immigrants
Illegal immigrants - there I have fixed your statement for you
Hey we hear things in South Africa PresidencyZA CyrilRamaphosa aikona ntate lekgale we can't live like this in our country just for certain individuals to benefit no ntate please o itse re o Thume keng jwale ha e ka ha o phetise ka mokgwa oo o tshepisetseng
They have the right to remain silent, section 35 of the constitution
'Irregular'🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What's an 'irregular immigrant'? 😳
In SA they have rights not in their country niphambene Nina
Sometimes I ask myself ukuth ni right etloko dashboard
SA media is trash. What is irregular immigrants.
irregular or illegally their presence have subjected us to become 2nd class citizens in our country, same apartheid experience if you like. All the rapes kidnapping, hijacking are limiting our freedoms. Them having weapons means they own our assets. They must go.
F*ck their rights.
Voetsek Nalama kwerekwere wenu.
Bare irregular, what the hell is that? Illegal immigrants say it criminals. SIES lanyontsha
When did it become 'irregular immigrants'?
What does that even mean? Irregular?
Amarights lawa amosha yonkinto
Agreed but in their own countries And don't use irregular immigrants its Illegal Immigrants.They are here illegally and that on its own is a criminal offense.We are well aware of SA media gaslighting Sans when coming to illegal immigrants issue🚮🚮
Now they are Irregular immigrants? 🫣
Yes you are right they have right to stay in their country not going to other countries undocumented
This rights 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Absolutely. Migrant rights are human rights