MARCH AND MARCH WANTS ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS OUT NOW!

Civic organisation March and March wants illegal foreigners to get out of South Africa now.

Now to achieve this objective, the organisation’s members, supported by members of other parties and organisations like ActionSA, Operation Dudula, Abahambe National Civic Movement, Cyril Must Fall Movement, DefendSA, Mamelodi Concerned Residents for Service Delivery, MK Party, Tshwane Bahlali Dudula, North West Bahlali Dudula, Fiyela Movement, as well as several labour and civic organisations, descended upon the City of Tshwane to deliver their memorandum of grievances to President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings on Tuesday.

The determined marchers gathered at Burgers Park and moved through the streets of Sunnyside in a show of strength against illegal foreigners living there before heading to the Union Buildings amidst singing, dancing and ululations.

March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese Zuma said her organisation has embarked upon the march to raise the issue of illegal migration which that has caused many problems like the high levels of unemployment which affects even professionals like teachers and medical doctors.

“We feel aggrieved that our government has made us feel like second class citizens in our own country with preference being given to foreigners,” she said.

“We are crying for the government to put us first as South Africans; we are actually demanding this, and this thing of calling us xenophobic is not going to work anymore,” she said.

Ngobese-Zuma said with every march embarked upon by March and March, more people join the organisation’s cause and if President Cyril Ramaphosa doesn’t want to respond to their call today, he will eventually have to respond one day as many people are now at the forefront and raising their voices to bring about change regarding the issue of illegal foreigners in South Africa.

“We are going to march and march yet again, and unfortunately for Ramaphosa he won’t be able to stop us in our quest to get rid of illegal foreigners in this country,” said Ngobese-Zuma.

“The Government of National Unity ( GNU) must know that its greatest purpose is to serve the people of South Africa , and it is a pity that some cabinet Ministers are afraid to speak out against illegal foreigners as they fear being labelled as xenophobic and being victimised,” she said.

She appealed to unemployed South Africans to join March and March campaigns in order to demand what is rightfully theirs from the government because there are jobs in South Africa, but the problem is the said jobs have been given to foreigners.

ActionSA Parliamentary Chief Whip Lerato Ngobeni said her party is supporting March and March in its protest march and that it has done so even in Durban and also in Ku Gompo in the Eastern Cape Province recently.

“ActionSA is one of the parties that has put the spotlight on the issue of illegal immigration and our party President Herman Mashaba was labeled as being xenophobic a long time ago when he legitimately raised the issue of buildings which had been hijacked by illegal foreigners in Johannesburg,” enthused Ngobeni.

“We are no longer interested in the debate about xenophobia because it is nonsense and what we are interested in at the moment is for the government to implement the rule of law and the Special Investigating Unit’s ( SIU) report has demonstrated as to how our citizenship has been abused and made cheap by people who are using our documents illegally and coming into this country using student visas that are bogus,” said Nogibeni.

“We have an issue with the fact that almost all spaza shops in South Africa are run by illegal foreigners in the townships and rural areas, yet the law stipulates that any foreigner who wants to start a business in South Africa must invest at least R5 million in the country, so my question to the government is where are all those R5 millions which have been invested by foreigners who are running the spaza shops of this country?” asked Ngobeni as she in the process decried the government for describing her organisation as being xenophobic.

Abahambe National Civic Movement Deputy President Mick Mavundla told Tshwane Talks that his organisation fully supports the march by March and March “because the elephant in the room is the issue of illegal migration which has affected the people of South Africa to the extent that they no longer feel safe in their own country; crime is out of control and there is joblessness; illegal immigrants do as they wish because they know that they can’t be traced; they commit crimes and disappear.”

Regiments leader of Kwa Mandlakazi Tribal Authority Vusimuzi Ndabandaba said they came to the Union Buildings ” to remind the government that it has been placed in those lofty positions by the people of South Africa who sacrificed their lives and future to make sure that that there is freedom in this country and that it is disappointing to realise that the selfsame government has now teamed up with illegal foreigners and giving them preference over South Africans.”

Prince Thula Zulu of IFP told Tshwane Talks that he supports the initiative by March and March as it is very good and that they agree with March and March when it asserts that illegal foreigners don’t have a right to be in this country as they are undocumented; nobody knows who they really are and are capable of doing.

He expressed concern that in the next ten to twenty years, more than hald of the population of South Africa will be made up of foreigner because children of foreigners who are born here are issued with birth certificates which in the long run will allow them to get Identity Documents.

One of the marchers challenged the police and government Ministers to get out of their blue lights vehicles and go to the nearby area of Sunnyside and see the atrocities that are being perpetrated by illegal foreigners there.

The March and March memorandum of grievances was read by the organisation’s Treasurer Sanele Khambule before handing it to Nonceba Mhlauli who is the Deputy Minister in the Presidency.

Mhlauli accepted the memorandum and signed it; promising to hand it to President Cyril Ramaphosa.

However, she appealed to the marchers not to spread messages of hatred against illegal foreigners, but could not say how the government was going to deal with the selfsame issue of people who come into South Africa illegally and do as they wish here.

Copy of memorandum:

March And March Memo (Joburg)