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PHAKEL’UMTHAKATHI TELLS ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS TO F…K OFF OUT OF THIS COUNTRY

The Insizwa Nobunsizwa Development Foundation members marched to the head office of the Department of Home Affairs in Pretoria on Friday to hand in a memorandum of grievances regarding the debilitating issue of illegal foreigners.

Hundreds of men and women clad in traditional Zulu regalia joined the march and painted the streets of Tshwane red while also carrying South Africa national flags.

They were led by Insizwa Nobunsizwa Development Foundation leader Nkosikhona Ndabandaba, commonly known as Phakel’umthakathi.

Afrika Mayibuye Ekurhuleni Mayoral candidate Themba Nzimande, known as Skeem GP, also joined the march.

The memorandum was received by the Department of Home Affairs Director Terena Truter, who promised to respond to the marcher’s grievances within the stipulated time-frame.

“It does not make sense to have illegal foreigners in this country….we don’t need them because they come here with their tendencies from their own countries,” said Phakel’umthakathi enthusiastically.

“We only need foreigners who bring scarce skills into the country and all foreigners who jumped the border to get into this country must go away,” he said.

“We are here at Home Affairs to tell our South African people that they must not lose hope… we will fight together with them in the battle against illegal foreigners,” said Phakel’umthakathi.

“We are asking the Department of Home Affairs to stop the online application system for so-called asylum-seekers and take all refugee reception centres to the borders of this country so that if a foreigners’ application for asylum is declined, they (the foreigner) must not even enter the country because it doesn’t make sense for example to have someone staying in the country illegally for ten years then all of a sudden they wake up one day and want to apply for asylum…what were they doing all along?” he asked irritably.

“To all foreigners I would like to say if you are illegal then you must f….k off out of this country, we don’t need you here,” said a fuming Phakel’umthakathi.

“Everybody who is a foreigner must go out of this country so that we can first fix the borders and then they will be able to come in legally,” he said as he in the process made it clear that every body from all over the world is welcome to visit South Africa but that they must do so legally.

“The township economy belongs to South Africans and we are putting South Africans first; we are not xenophobic and you can say whatever you want,” said one of the marchers.

“We don’t know what led to the Concourt taking a decision to allow people who have come into the country illegally to continue living in this country while waiting to be granted the so-called asylum, but what we are sure of is that the people of South Africa are not happy, they are discontented and together with Phakel’umthakathi we will carry on with the struggle, and we will scream until they hear us up there at the Union Buildings,” said Skeem GP.

“To the Minister of Home Affairs I am saying please listen to the cries of the 60 million South Africans who are saying the limited resources that they used to have are exhausted already, and please don’t bring in baggage from outside to put more burden on them as citizens of this country” he said.

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