By Ayanda Ndlovu
NEC member of Operation Dudula
Operation Dudula will embark on a countrywide shutdown on 2 June 2025.
The reason for the shutdown is to let the government know that South Africans have had enough as illegal immigration is now a pandemic in this country.
We are just a developing country that only gained its independence in 1994.
However, we have the whole continent on our shoulders.
South Africa recently got its so-called freedom which is just lip service because we are only free to vote and there is nothing else for us after that as black South Africans.
We are a country that has endured decades of oppression under the apartheid regime and when that era ended, nothing was corrected, yet we are forced to move on and get over it, so to speak.
Now while trying to move on, we are bombarded by foreigners coming from all over the world, and not only from Africa.
Our porous borders have led to this foreign invasion and as a result every sector, be it public or private, has been infiltrated by foreigners.
Job-seeking black South Africans have lost out in the employment and labour market sphere because employers prioritise the cheap labour offered by foreigners instead of that offered by locals who were born and bred in this country.
As if this was not enough, foreigners have now invaded the informal business sector; thus pushing South Africans out of business and taking over the township economy.
Foreigners are replacing South Africans in every sphere of life.
Our hospitals and clinics are always full to capacity with foreigners while black South Africans are not getting any proper services at the aforesaid facilities.
They can’t access medication or hospital beds because the resources of the health system have been depleted by foreigners.
All these years we have been footing the health bill with our taxes, sacrificing and sharing all our health resources with foreigners, this with the hope that this would be a temporary measure; that they will soon go back to their home countries, yet they keep on coming into the country in millions.
As it is, we don’t have enough as South Africans, we don’t have enough to take care of ourselves, but the government is not helping the situation as it doesn’t enforce immigration laws on foreigners.
Every year many black South African school learners can’t be enrolled at schools without putting up a fight to be admitted to such institutions, because the schools are full of children of foreigners.
Our infrastructure has been destroyed and valuable items like cables are being stolen every hour by foreigners.
These foreigners are responsible for hijackings, theft, human trafficking, prostitution, sale of illicit cigarettes and drugs, hijacked buildings, illegal power connections, fake goods, poisonous food stuffs in their spaza shops and warehouses.
These poisonous foodstuffs have killed many black South African kids.
Foreigners also commit crimes like rape and house robberies, murder and ritual killings and what is also painful is that they disrespect our law-enforcement agencies.
These foreigners even have “home affairs offices” in their own backyards whereby they issue their fellow foreigners with birth certificates and Identity Documents.
The list of their crimes is endless and they literally get away with murder because they are undocumented and can therefore not be traced easily.
Illegal immigration is a criminal offence, we have immigration laws in this country and they must be respected.
We are under siege from foreigners as black South Africans.
There is a scarce-skills list which must be adhered to when hiring foreigners, be they legal or illegal in the country and we are the only country in the world with such a high number of unemployment statistics that mainly affect its own citizens while all foreigners are employed in one way or another in a country that is not of their birth.
South Africans are displaced and homeless while illegal foreigners sit comfortably inside the houses that they(foreigners) have hijacked.
We have police and Home Affairs officials who assist these people to break our laws and there are landlords who give illegal foreigners a place to live and trade, and this is a treasonous act.
Our local municipalities are also not enforcing any by-laws but instead extort money from these foreigners.
We want the government to deport all illegal foreigners by enforcing immigration laws.
We are reclaiming our beloved country.
We have criminals that are South Africans, but they can at least be dealt with easily because they are documented, unlike foreigners who can’t be located because they simply are not documented.