Are you saying that this justifies people being burnt and hacked to death? Would you expect to be attacked because of your nationality if you went to another more prosperous country to seek a better life?

Hiring South Africans should be on the top of our list, yes, but as I have experienced, many South African people who are offered skills training just expect hand-outs.

Foreigners have come here and created their own opportunities from nothing, set up shops where there were non and even employed some south africans themselves. They have opened stores and sold products in the townships at lower prices. In fact in many cases they have stimulated the economy and used initiative to create a living for themselves and others.

Many of our locals are too busy taking drugs, getting drunk and lazing around expecting hand-outs to take a stand and use their God abilities to cerate opportunities like these.

I know it’s a complicated situation, and people living in inhumane conditions experience a loss of dignity which drives them to act in certain ways, but this does not make immigrants the cause of their own oppression.

We need to tackle the state of poverty and degradation that the majority of South Africans are living in in order to remedy the root causes of many social ills which plague our country.

How do we do this? How do we change the conditions for all people. In the days of apartheid, when South Africans were oppressed at home they fled to other African countries and found support. Can we not offer the same to others?

They are stealing our jobs and lowering the average wage in the process.

I would encourage all employers to be “Proudly South African” but ONLY hiring South Africans! You are not “Proudly South African” just because you wear a Proudly SA shirt while hiring a gardener from Malawi

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