Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA dumps #PutSouthAfricansFirst, says foreigners are NOT enemies
ActionSA, a political party led by former Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has announced they will no longer support xenophobic campaigns against foreigners.
Campaigners against illegal immigration presumed Mashaba would automatically become the face of their cause and his party would advance their interests.
Mashaba’s policies seemed to be similar to the agenda pushed by groups supporting the deportation of foreigners from South Africa such as the #PutSouthAfricansFirst campaign.
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#PutSouthAfricansFirst held a successful maiden campaign last month in Pretoria and petitioned the Nigerian and Zimbabwe embassies over illegal immigration of their citizens.
Their hopes were dashed when the charismatic leader’s party released a short statement on social media distancing themselves from mushrooming campaigns against foreigners.
ActionSA labelled the groupings xenophobic and assured its members that the party would rather initiate its own immigration policies than follow these movements.
ActionSA has noted the proliferation of xenophobic movements in South Africa and we have resolved to be leaders and not followers in the struggle for immigration control in South Africa. The enemy is not foreigners. The enemy is our government.
“Our government is the origin of this tension in South Africa, and their failure to recognise that we are a country meant to have borders is the origin of the permanent potential for violent outbreaks of xenophobia.”
#ActionSA has strengthened its resolve to its position that people must enter our country legally and must obey our laws once here. This remains our non-negotiable position, and, neither #ActionSA nor the South African people will be silenced on this matter!
Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA dumps #PutSouthAfricansFirst, says foreigners are NOT enemies
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