President of Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa
Full video of President of Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has failed to outline a programme to deport illegal foreigners from this country.
This is contrary to what was expected by grassroots organisations which have for many years now been calling for the mass deportation of illegal foreigners.
All that he said was that “the Department of Home Affairs, Border Management Authority, South African Police Service and other law-enforcement agencies have been and will, intensify the process of identifying and reporting undocumented foreign nationals residing in South Africa.”
Ramaphosa said dedicated courts will be set up to speedily support the deportation of undocumented migrants.
“Migration is the way of the world and we must be prepared to embrace it,” said Ramaphosa emphatically.
It now remains to be seen whether movements like Operation Dudula and March and March will carry out their threat to hunt down illegal foreigners and present them for deportation to immigration authorities on 30 June 2026.
Meanwhile Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie has called upon his supporters not to take the law into their own hands regarding the issue of hunting down and deporting illegal foreigners.
“Let’s allow the GNU to deal with this matter; the GNU is serious about this matter and there is no turning back,” said McKenzie.
Be that as it may the Democratic Alliance has come out in full support of President Cyril Ramaphosa’ speech.
“I welcome President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the nation together with his clear message that South Africa’s economic struggles are not caused by foreign nationals but by failure to grow the economy and create millions of jobs,” said DA leader Geordine Hill Lewis in a statement released to the media shortly after Ramaphosa’s televised speech at the Union Buildings on Sunday evening.
“This is the right message at a dangerous moment for our country and South Africa must reject xenophobia, uphold our Constitutional values and never allow anger over hardship to become violence against vulnerable people,” he enthused.
Full video of President of Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa.
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