The Migrant Tension in South Africa

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:09]Ladies and gentlemen, imagine being a South African. Even if you're not a South African, let's say you were South African. How would you feel if someone, foreigner or not, started to say things like this?

[00:00:23]6:27 a.m.

[00:00:26]Up and grateful.

[00:00:29]Up and grateful.

[00:00:35]We don't go check our our our small small teners them you know go collect rent for all this place South Africa. For context RDP houses are houses meant to be given to the poorest South Africans for free. And this guy who is not a South African is claiming to be receiving rent for those RDP houses.

[00:01:05]Several houses that are built by the South African government for the South African people to live in for free are owned by a foreigner and he is getting rent from them. Firstly, what he's doing is illegal. And secondly, he has the audacity to boast about it on social media. So tell me, how would you feel if you were a South African and some guy from Nigeria did this?

[00:01:31]>> These houses are meant for lowincome earners who can't afford to build for their families. Howing human settlements department says it is shocked that some citizens are allegedly selling these houses to foreign nationals. The department says this is unlawful and it drops deserving families. Many have waited decades to get houses.

[00:01:53]investigations are underway.

[00:01:55]>> And yes, he does not represent all foreigners, but he is a foreigner. Add on top of that the reputation that Nigerians have from selling drugs to turning girls into prostitutes, from buying IDs to taking part in the corruption that occurs in the police and home affairs. For example, it wasn't long ago when Chidima Adina came to the limelight. What was the story? She was competing in a Miss South Africa pageant, a competition meant for South Africans. Why? Because she claimed to be South African. And guess what? She wasn't South African. She was a daughter to a Nigerian and a Mozambican. She was a beneficiary of identity theft, benefiting from an ID that belonged to a South African. Imagine that. The story trended throughout the world and yet again South Africa was labeled xenophobic.

[00:02:48]>> People were not happy that my name is Chidima and I am representing South Africa. So that is where it actually really started and you know people felt like well South Africans felt like I wasn't South African enough because of my name and um it was really sad to see.

[00:03:04]It was a very horrible experience and I wouldn't wish it on anybody because I have lived there for 23 years and it's it's heartbreaking to see that I wasn't welcomed and accepted. Um >> Yeah.

[00:03:20]>> And um it really hit social media as well.

[00:03:24]>> Yeah. And um there was some statements that came out from home affairs with regards to my mom's um ID as well and that is still a legal matter. So I'm not going to comment on that. But what I do know is that I was born in South Africa and I am a South African and I'm still proudly Nigerian as well and I was really excited to get an invitation from Silverbird to represent Nigeria in the Miss Universe Nigeria. You tell me, ladies and gents, if you were a South African witnessing a Nigerian benefiting from a competition that should benefit South Africans only, how would you feel? Imagine being a poor South African seeing a Nigerian saying he's receiving rent from a government housing program that is supposed to benefit South Africans only. How would you feel? Imagine being a child in a house that barely gets enough to eat.

[00:04:16]And someone enters the house and starts making your sister pay rent for a room that your father built for your sister to live in for free. Another child comes from next door and says that she wants to benefit from the promise your father made, saying, "Whoever of my children is going to get AIDS will get a new cell phone." The stranger simply says, "I'm a child of this home, too." How would you feel about all of that? As if the Chidima China story, the Scubiniro story and many other stories we have heard are not enough, we also find Nigerians declaring themselves as royalty in South Africa. Nigerians demanding to be recognized as a tribe right here in South Africa.

[00:04:58]>> Progressive forces of South Africa have raised concerns over the controversial coronation of a so-called Egn Cape as well as broader issues involving some Nigerian nationals living in South Africa. Our heritage and custom must be respected by all in particular our visitors. Cabinet expressed disgust of the so-called coronation of the Nigerian national as an alleged chief in KMPO city in the Eastern Cape and indicated that it is a mere kindergarten gimmick and has no legal effect.

[00:05:30]>> South Africans are supposed to just sit back and accept all of this. Why?

[00:05:35]Because we are African and love our African brothers and sisters. Because we want to show that we are not xenophobic.

[00:05:43]Yeah. You may want to call South Africa a xenophobic country for freaking out.

[00:05:48]And yes, some of our people are xenophobic, but most are not. You too will have xenophobic people in your country if your country were full of foreigners. America has that issue.

[00:06:00]Britain has that issue. China, Japan, and many other countries have the same problem. We cannot keep being host to refugees for which later on we are held accountable in some way or even abused about. Refugees as a result of ethnic cleansing based in another country and we must be the dumping ground of those people who are being deprived of their rights. We have had refugees here for over 20 years from DRC of one type of people. This is not Rwanda's problem and we are going to ensure that everybody realizes that it is not Rwanda's problem and starting with saying those who think it is Wanda's problem and not Congo.

[00:07:00]First of all remove these congreies from here. Those who are coming in every day just on the actions of government and institutions. You tell me government is not functioning properly or this or that's still none of my business. If it is to be my business, it is yours also.

[00:07:20]Meaning the international community, these are the ones I'm addressing. It is as much your problem as it is mine. But I'm refusing that Rwanda should carry this burden and be insulted and abused every day about it.

[00:07:35]>> But it is made to seem like South Africa is unique in this regard.

[00:07:41]Like we've said many times over, a country is like a family. It's like a home. And there is no proper home that allows guests to just come in and do whatever they want. Behave anyhow, treat the owners of the home disrespectfully.

[00:07:56]All of us expect guests to behave like guests. However, it seems like guests in South Africa forget that they are guests and they feel very entitled, more entitled than the owners of the home who are accommodating them. South Africans are expected to tolerate what others are not willing to tolerate in their own countries. South Africans are expected to keep quiet when people disrespect them. Look at this woman from Zimbabwe.

[00:08:26]We are not going anywhere. We are here to stay. ZIMBAB. OUR FLAG ON THE COMMENT SECTION. OUR FLAG. OUR FLAG.

[00:08:37]OUR FLAG. OUR FLAG. OUR FLAG ON THE COMMENT SECTION. I SEND DOWN and listen to me very careful. I'm here and I'm hoping you in your country. Yes. I'm here and I'M HOPING YOU IN YOUR COUNTRY.

[00:08:50]THREE MORE ROSES. Finish them, guys.

[00:08:52]FINISH THEM. SHOW THEM. SHOW THEM.

[00:08:57]We are not going anywhere.

[00:09:06]BRING IT. BRING IT to the world. Bring it. Bring it mama.

[00:09:22]Even foreigners they must go back because you are not educated my sister.

[00:09:31]Learn to travel. Mama country.

[00:09:55]I don't have a passport.

[00:10:06]Yes. Yes.

[00:10:09]Bring it on.

[00:10:17]Tell your people to play.

[00:10:23]Tell your play.

[00:10:26]Tell your to play. Now they finished, right? They finished South Africans to play.

[00:10:38]We need bring it. Bring it.

[00:10:53]THEY ARE BUSY. THEY BUSY. THEY ARE BUSY SELLING US selling drugs. That one 350 is finished. Where's that one? Who's trying us there with with 999? Where's that pin?

[00:11:13]Bring it.

[00:11:15]Bring it on. Hey, you respect us as a country.

[00:11:23]Pizza mama we are very hot in Zimbabwe finish bring it >> imagine that access to social media what we know is that no proper child no student or no worker will speak like this to the one who has the power. A guest cannot speak like this in your house can she? How then does one guest speak like this in a foreign country?

[00:11:51]And then the people of South Africa start complaining. They complain and start taking things seriously. They share these videos on social media, on their WhatsApp groups. And what do you have? Hatred. And when the South Africans react, you want to retract.

[00:12:21]South Africa.

[00:12:37]South Africa South Africa Zimbabwe Scooby did the same.

[00:13:30]>> Hi South Africans.

[00:13:32]Um, it's your boy Scubanero.

[00:13:35]Um, I shouldn't say your boy. My name is Kubanero, you know, and I want to say a big um I want to give a big apology to South Africans because I never knew that it was going to go it going to blow out of proportion. It's a trolling thing.

[00:13:50]What I do is I throw they throw me back.

[00:13:52]It was like a normal thing for the longest time. And I noticed this thing from the 25th huh from 25 September if I remember vivid day this I started collecting money from Facebook you that was last year yeah I started collecting money from Facebook what did I do to those people like what's going on then I started noticing Facebook will tell you reply them when you reply them you get more points I started replying you know I think I got it out of proportion I shouldn't have done that you know that's not an excuse you know I even saw this comment of a lady telling me saying she's been waiting for uh her mom has been waiting for houses in this Nigerian guy that owns 80% of all the IDP houses in South Africa. Like how? No, I was just trolling. Guys, >> you may apologize, but the people's anger, their disappointment, and sometimes even their hatred has been awoken. Such careless and disrespectful talk makes people that were never xenophobic more likely to become xenophobic. Have some sense and stop doing and saying things that make people's blood boil. You are a guest, so calm down and be a guest. South Africans have their own problems. Yes, but this is their country. We may have a morality problem among our people, but this is our country. We may have a discipline problem, a fatherless home problem, a teenage pregnancy problem, a crime problem. We may have an alcohol problem.

[00:15:17]But this remains our country. If you're a foreigner, whether legal or illegal, firstly, you have to respect the host country and its laws. And secondly, you have to respect the host people. This is still our country. I would never support violence or xenophobia, but there will be nothing and no one who will come to save you if you try to make enemies of the people who are your neighbors in whatever community or country you find yourself in. To those foreigners who think that it is fun to taunt the host, be warned. There are many countries who will not stand for that. And remember that we have a violent crime and mob justice problem in this country. Who knows, you may find yourself at their mercy. So, be careful. Learn from the foolishness of others.

[00:16:08]>> This guy would make Tik Tok videos teaching other illegals how to make money off of the system. He also taught them how to get into these abandoned homes, whether they were abandoned or rented. Now, he's strictly talking in Spanish here, but this is translated.

[00:16:30]So, I'm going to play it so you can get a taste of what a POS this guy was and still is.

[00:16:54]Capichi Machos.

[00:17:16]Africas.

[00:17:26]Imbadasa abonada.

[00:18:05]That's some Latin guy who chose to be stupid in America and put it on Tik Tok.

[00:18:10]And what happened? It didn't take long before he started to regret his words.

[00:18:16]>> Fox News alert. Lionel Moreno, aka the freeloading Venezuelan welfare king, has been deported. We told you about Mareno last year when he was trying to become a migrant influencer, mocking Americans while living large off the government dole.

[00:18:32]>> You're hurt because I make more than you without much work, while you work like slaves. Understand? That's the difference between you and me. I'm always going to make lots of money without much work, and you're always going to be exploited and miserable and insignificant.

[00:18:48]>> Hope you enjoyed the Biden bucks while they lasted. Personally, I think yes, this is good and it should have been done years ago. He's now barred from even coming back for life.

[00:18:59]>> Guys, any decent person who comes from a decent home knows not to get too comfortable in other people's homes. We all know it. We know that we need to be respectful to the host and the host's home. It is obvious. You don't even need to be told that. You need to be disciplined. You need to stay likable in whatever home you visit. Be a guest, be respectful, and that will go a very, very long way. Anyway, that's it for today. Please like and share this video with others and consider subscribing if you'd like to see more videos from our channel. If you'd like to support the work that we do, please consider joining our membership. Thank you so much for watching. I'm Gatlero. This is Citizen Concerned. And until next time, beware of the comrades.