We Are Going Nowhere” — Nigerian Reactions to South Africa’s Immigration Tensions 🇳🇬🇿🇦

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]My African brothers, we don't hate you.

[00:00:02]We are just fixing our country. Thank you, Ghana. Thank you, Ghana for standing up for your people. Thank you, Ghana for coming and fetching your people. And we call on all African brothers and sisters to go back to their countries so we can fix South Africa so that you can come back. And also, this this should be an inspiration to you guys to go back to your countries and fight for your countries. This should be a learning curve for your governments to start loving its own people. Governments of Africa must start loving it. If we want a united Africa, let us unite Africa with proper countries, proper functioning countries. That's all we are asking for. There is no xenophobia, there is no tribalism, and there will be no violence. We are just asking foreigners to leave this country, illegal foreigners, because every country has got laws. Even the laws of your countries are more tougher than our laws. So, respect this country. We are men. We are standing up. We are fighting for this country. 30 June is the deadline for every foreigner to have left the country. Thank you very much.

[00:01:05]>> interactions with South Africans lately and these so-called marches on the streets in South Africa targeting foreign nationals.

[00:01:13]This is who I found out is sponsoring it. Watch this video till the end. So, in my interactions with South Africans, they'll tell you, "Oh, why don't you go back and fix your own country? We are tired of these foreigners." And mostly it's the black foreigners from Nigeria, from Zambia, from Zimbabwe, from Ethiopia and Somalia.

[00:01:31]And they'll tell you, "Well, if you guys hate us so much, if you guys believe that we are so xenophobic, what the hell are you guys doing in our country? Why don't you go back to your own country?"

[00:01:40]And especially they're targeting Nigerians. You know what they tell me?

[00:01:44]"Why don't you guys deal with Boko Haram in your own country? Why are your men so weak and running from the problems in their own country and coming to our country to bring those problems?"

[00:01:53]They'll tell me as a Nigerian that West African men are weak, that instead of us confronting our own problems, we cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, and so on and so forth. But, here's the thing.

[00:02:06]The government is aloof.

[00:02:07]The South African government is watching while this is happening.

[00:02:12]And you even have policemen in some of these videos escorting these guys that are carrying out vigilante-style justice.

[00:02:19]And you know the deadline they gave most Africans to leave their country, 30th of June. They said 30th of June will be the showdown.

[00:02:27]And we are waiting to see. So, it seems to me that the government of South Africa is quiet about it. It's not arresting anybody. And lately we saw one video of them going to like a Chinese store or something like that, and the government stepped in immediately. So, when it happens to Nigerians and Zimbabweans, the government is not going to say anything. But, if it happens to Chinese, or it happens to like Europeans, the government steps in immediately.

[00:02:55]So, here's my question for South Africans.

[00:02:57]What exactly are you guys going to do on the 30th of June if foreign nationals refuse to leave your country?

[00:03:04]We are waiting.

[00:03:07]>> The issue between South Africans and Nigeria is become serious.

[00:03:12]Yes, it become serious to the level that Nigerians are now coming to social media. They are coming boldly on social media telling South African that they are not going anywhere. And South Africans are saying that you [clears throat] 30, all foreigner must go back. If they no go, they will see what they will see their face they see.

[00:03:30]By the way, Nigerians on online, they are preparing to attack South African in South African.

[00:03:37]I'm not the one saying it, oh. He's the one saying it. That mean the drama between South Africans and it not becoming this issue now is becoming the South Africans and Nigeria.

[00:03:49]Because right now, if you if you have listening, following the the drama so far, you you will see that Ghanaians, they don't want wahala.

[00:03:59]They don't pack their load.

[00:04:01]They carry all their people. They return them back to to Ghana.

[00:04:06]But when you come for the other hand, Nigeria, they no want to go anywhere. They are claiming that they are citizen in that town. They no want to go anywhere. They are in They are in South Africa.

[00:04:17]Nigerians no ready to go anywhere.

[00:04:19]They no want to go.

[00:04:20]They are in South Africa. They want to fight South Africa. And we are waiting to see what Nigerians will do on that day, because you South Africa is not your country. Go back to your country and fight Boko Haram and bandit. They say no. They want to sit there. They want to They want to organize their self. They want to fight South Africa.

[00:04:39]We are waiting to see you people. As you no want to go, if South African people you want to fight, we are waiting.

[00:04:47]>> Yo.

[00:04:48]Good day to my dear brothers and sisters as Ghanaians. Yeah, greetings to each and everyone. Yeah.

[00:04:55]Uh I think yeah, since about uh a week ago, I've been hearing about the South Africa people who have been working at the Gold Fields mining for about three 33 years.

[00:05:17]And their contract is going to be expired by next year.

[00:05:25]And they need renewal for another contract so that they can continue to do their their work in Gold Gold Fields.

[00:05:41]And the government is trying to stop their contracts becau- because they said South Africans are telling Ghanaians not to be living in their country anymore. They should all go back.

[00:06:03]Ghanaians should go back to their country. And because of that the Ghanaian president is also trying to stop their contracts not to renew it for them anymore.

[00:06:16]You know my dear brothers and sisters as Ghanaians you see it when I heard this I was very even shocked.

[00:06:28]I was very even shocked that because of what has happened to uh Gha- uh Ghanaians in South Africa, South Africa trying to uh deport the Africans from their country, the Ghanaians out from their country.

[00:06:47]That is why we are not going to renew these companies their uh contract for them by next year. Then if that is how we are thinking, then I think we Ghanaians we are not serious.

[00:07:06]We are not serious.

[00:07:09]How can you be having this gold in your country and you allow a foreigner to take all these advantages of taking all these gold to their country and you be taking only just 10% of it.

[00:07:34]As leaders sitting down and you be saying that because they are doing this, South Africa are doing this to other African countries and you yourself your your citizens. So, you are not going to also renew their contract for them. If this is the reason why you are not going to reason to renew their contract for them, then I think you doesn't think far.

[00:08:00]That means you don't have any wisdom in your head.

[00:08:08]In your country, don't you have any who can take in in charge of this whereby your people can also earn good money in your country whereby the citizens can also get a good job to do?

[00:08:25]Don't you have this for your citizens?

[00:08:29]Then what is the reason of your citizen voting you as a power as a leader?

[00:08:37]As a president.

[00:08:40]If you could be doing all these things, then there's no need of you to be going to all those conferences and always to be doing what? To be bluffing yourself as if it is not English that we your English that you be speaking that will show that you are a wise man. No.

[00:08:59]English doesn't make someone to be wise.

[00:09:03]English doesn't make someone to be wise.

[00:09:07]But the way you rule your country and the way you you act and the way you develop your country makes people to know that you are a wise man.

[00:09:21]Always you be going to conferences and you'll be standing in front of white people speaking English as if you are the the wise person in in all African countries among the leaders in all Africa. No, no, no, no, no, no. That is not the way.

[00:09:42]Ghanaians we have to see to it that we don't renew this contract to the South African company anymore.

[00:09:52]They return back home. The gold The gold doesn't belong to President Mahama.

[00:10:02]And Mahama doesn't have any audacity on our gold.

[00:10:07]If we, the citizens, we say we don't need any renewal, the president has to stand on our audacity and do what the we, the citizens, we we want.

[00:10:25]What is this?

[00:10:27]Why are we in lowering ourselves to foreigners?

[00:10:33]And foreigners has been taking we, the Ghanaians, the citizens, as mugu.

[00:10:41]Huh?

[00:10:42]All because of our leaders, our political leaders, who are misleading the citizens.

[00:10:50]Always telling we, the citizens, the lies.

[00:10:54]They don't know how to rule the country.

[00:10:58]Huh?

[00:10:59]They don't know how to rule the country, and they have even taken us back to even the slave trade.

[00:11:06]What is wrong with our mental mental faculties as the leaders?

[00:11:13]We don't think good about the about the country. We don't think good for the citizens.

[00:11:21]Huh?

[00:11:23]Do you think Kwame Nkrumah If Kwame Nkrumah is to be alive, do you think Kwame Nkrumah will be misbehaving as like how this our leaders, our politicians are now misbehaving.

[00:11:38]Huh?

[00:11:39]Our leaders are now taking us even back to slave trade, like how we are seeing seeing it. They are They are even allowing even our own Africans to be taken as as slaves.

[00:11:54]As we Ghanaians, they are even allowing our Africans to be taken as as slaves.

[00:12:03]Because of Pan-Africanism and all those kind of things, they are just lowering themselves for other African countries to be taking as we Ghanaians as bulls, bulls.

[00:12:19]Huh? [clears throat] You people have to reason up. You as the citizens, as Ghanaians, you people have to reason up and fight against all our all things that we have in in our country.

[00:12:39]Because our leaders are not doing what we are we we want them to do for us. They are doing what they want.

[00:12:52]That is what they are doing.

[00:12:54]And we shouldn't accept all those things to be >> [snorts] >> happening.

[00:13:00]Because they are taking us as if we are dumps.

[00:13:07]We shouldn't allow the president to renew any contract for the South African company again.

[00:13:13]Ghanian citizens, wake up. Wake up from today today going. We shouldn't allow the president to allow the uh let the uh to renew the the contract for the South African company anymore. They By next year, after they finish, they have to take all their things and go out from the country.

[00:13:41]The gold mining place is not for doesn't belongs to the president.

[00:13:46]It doesn't belongs to the president.

[00:13:49]In Ghana, every month, if all the citizens in the country as Ghanaians, even if the government gives them payment as maybe $500, even it is not much for us because all the resources that we need in the world, God has given it to Ghanaians.

[00:14:11]But because of the wickedness of our politicians, the citizens are suffering. Ghanaians, wake up.

[00:14:19]Wake up.

[00:14:23]>> President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is an animal. He's a mad man. He's a mentally unstable person.

[00:14:29]Uh this is not me trying to insult him.

[00:14:30]This is a wake-up call to all my fellow Nigerians, yeah.

[00:14:35]That man ruling us, that man in the presidential seat is not a proper human being. That man is a sick person. That man is sick mentally. Okay? The only difference between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the mad man on the street is the agbada. The mad man on the street goes back and forth in nakedness, while Tinubu goes back and forth in agbada. That's The agbada is the only difference. And if you are fighting If you're fighting a mad man and you want to win, you have to fight him him or her in his own style. Don't fight a mad man in your own style.

[00:15:08]You're going to lose. You're going to lose. If you're fighting a mad man, fight that mad man in his own style.

[00:15:13]That's the only time you get to win him.

[00:15:16]The man in power is is is is not a normal human being. He's He's He's He's sick person. He's a mad man. He comes from a generation of a, you know mentally ill people.

[00:15:26]You feel me? So this is something we Nigerians should understand. To win Tunubu you have to be mad. We we all have to be mad. We have to go mad too.