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Let’s give her 5 more years
Residents of Tshwane, as a final request as we all head to the polls tomorrow, If you would like to see me continue serving as the Executive Mayor of Tshwane, please vote for ActionSA.
Over the past 2-years, Tshwane has achieved several successes. We championed restoring the rule of law, financial stability and the normalisation of service delivery.
Give ActionSA #FiveMoreYears to keep Fixing Tshwane for you.
#LGE2026 🇿🇦🗳️
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This is a workplace in South Africa. The very SA with the highest unemployment in the world & millions of unemployed graduates.
Hey @UPTuks , can you explain why there is such gross underrepresentation of black South Africans in this Centre for Human Rights?
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This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
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If your education has convinced you that illegal immigration and open borders have no impact on crime, employment, and service delivery, I’m afraid you traded your brains for that title.
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We’ve effectively legitimised entering the country illegally. The constitutional court is actually saying it doesn’t matter how you enter South Africa. This is a reckless judgement.
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WATCH | Tempers flare in Dube, Soweto, as members of the Soweto Uprising movement and residents go door-to-door delivering seven-day eviction notices to landlords accused of renting to foreign-owned spaza shops.
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The crux of the issue in the ConCourt judgment
The ConCourt judgment amongst other matters ruled that a person who is illegal in South Africa cannot be arrested and deported IF they express an INTENTION to apply for asylum. Effectively, if an illegal immigrant just EXPRESSES an intention to apply for asylum they have to be released.
Yes we know asylum application doesn’t mean refugee status nor citizenship. The crux of the issue is what does an asylum application mean and what is afforded to people who merely posses a Section 22 permit.
A Section 22 permit is a legal document that is issued to an individual that has applied for asylum in South Africa whilst they await for Home Affairs to make a decision.
A holder of a Section 22 permit can access SRD grants, is legally enabled to study, be employed and run businesses in South Africa.
Auditor General back in 2020 stated, to clear the backlog on asylum applications and appeals, if no new applications are received it will take 68 years for Home Affairs to clear the backlog.
Home Affairs indicates, it takes between 5-10 years for a decision to be finalised on an asylum application given the appeals & court processes. This is unlikely to change as the Refugee Status Determination Officers are less than a 100 for the whole country.
The troubling feature as stated by Home Affairs is that 95% of asylum applications are denied as not meeting the legal requirements of a refugee.
Home Affairs doesn’t have a system to track and trace individuals who are asylum applicants. Most asylum applicants receive the Section 22 permit fail to report to Refugee Reception Office & continue to live in SA without lawful documentation.
Home Affairs doesn’t have systems to adequately ascertain whether asylum seekers are not fugitives. Fulgence Kayishema was criminally indicted for the killing of 2000 people in Rwanda. He came to South Africa seeking asylum and was given a refugee status, he lived in the country under a false name for more than 20 years working.
The Employment Services Amendment Bill proposes a removal of an “asylum seeker” in the definition of a foreign national. Meaning a foreign national who is illegal in the country, who has just merely applied for asylum is afforded the same rights as a citizen. This is even though 95% of asylum applications do not meet legal requirements and it takes a minimum of 5 years for an application to be finalised. In those years, they are legally entitled to work just like citizens.
The anger directed to the South African government by its citizens is legitimate. This ruling effectively means an illegal immigrant can have legal status in South Africa through an asylum application.
Even though 95% of these applications are not legitimate, they will still get to have access to work and business opportunities, SRD grants until the applications are finalised which takes years.
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Pakistan shares a border with India, Afghanistan, Iran and China. Why would they seek asylum 8000km away in SA? 🤔
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🔴 BREAKING | Home Affairs has withdrawn its asylum intake directive after refugee reception offices were overwhelmed within days, according to the department.
It says officials were placed at risk and serious threats to public safety emerged.
The department says the directive was issued without the minister’s knowledge. A fresh approach to complying with the Constitutional Court’s order will now be developed.
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How about we unite as Africans and push for Peace in Sudan and Congo... Let's pause on the twars for a min, Our African brothers are being butchered men.
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They reserve the right to invade countries "preemptively" based on intelligence they fabricate.
They reserve the right to assassinate foreign nationals by drone, without criminal charge or trial.
They reserve the right to surveil the entire planet's communications.
They reserve the right to imprison people indefinitely without charge.
They reserve the right to fund and arm whoever serves their interests regardless of what those people do with the funding and the arms.
They reserve the right to sanction any country that challenges any of this.
They call this the "rules-based international order."
The rule is: they decide.
The order is: everyone else complies.
The rest is branding.
