By Themba Masango (SG)
Not In My Name International.
It is a regional governance failure demanding an honest and permanent SADC solution.
The strain on our public services is a symptom of a deeper problem.
While we acknowledge our shared destiny with the continent, we must ask: why has Zimbabwe become the singular source of a regional displacement crisis? Is it South Africa’s sole responsibility to absorb the consequences of another nation’s political and socio-economic collapse?
The core issue is not nationality, but legality and control.
With an estimated one million Zimbabweans among over three million immigrants in South Africa, we face a fundamental breakdown in migration management.
This is not a rejection of our African brothers and sisters, but a demand for the rule of law.
One cannot simply walk into any sovereign nation—be it Harare or Johannesburg—without documents and establish a life.
I am an African. But our Pan-African solidarity must be built on functional governance, not on the back of a single nation’s collapsing systems.
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