South Africans have grown disillusioned with traditional political parties like the ANC and EFF, leading to the emergence of grassroots movements such as March and March that unite citizens around common causes like addressing illegal immigration and demanding government accountability, demonstrating how citizen mobilization can challenge established political power structures when institutional trust erodes.
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🇿🇦March & March Jacinta VS Minister Angie Motshega!Added:
Whenever matchingmatch speaks, South Africans listen.
But when the ANC speaks, South Africans close their ears. South Africans no longer want to hear anything that comes from the ANC or the EFF or these political parties.
Because South Africans are starting to understand that the biggest problem that we have in this country is exactly these political parties.
But there's something very different about this matchingmatch, and it's something that is starting to scare our politicians.
Because they can see the power that matchingmatch has.
Matchingmatch has the people of South Africa behind it. Jacinta has the people of South Africa behind her.
And the level to which South Africans are angry right now, they can do anything to protect matchingmatch and protect Jacinta.
And I think that thing is very, very scary for a government.
We are aware that the executive is planning to unleash the army on us in June.
Uh yet they have dismally failed to remove the illegal immigrants from our from our shores.
The prioritization of foreign nationals in South Africa is deeply appalling.
South Africa is currently on the verge of a collapse. The economy is crumbling.
There are no resources left for South Africans, and there's certainly not enough resources for foreign nationals.
We do not want to see illegal immigrants working for Checker 60/60 coming to our homes to deliver our food as this is not a critical or scarce skill.
These jobs must be reserved only for South Africans in order for us to win the war against inequality and poverty.
Um South Africa is a movie. We live in a drama. It's a series. Welcome to another episode of the spotlight. My name is Emmanuel, and I make videos about South Africa's social issues, political issues, and also making the news more relatable to you by bringing forward a random guy like me's perspective. Now, yesterday the South African Human Rights Commission held an emergency meeting to address the rising tensions here in South Africa. We can see that South Africans are angry. There's protests all around the South Africa. Now, for the longest of time, the government ignored these cries of South Africans. But now, they are starting to realize that actually South Africans are serious, and this call of 30 June sounds like something very, very serious. So, the Human Rights Organization invited these government departments and other organizations to speak about this thing of illegal immigration here in South Africa. Now, the most interesting uh thing that came out of this meeting that a lot of people are talking about is the stance that was taken by the Minister of Defense. Angie Motshekga made it very clear that South Africans will not be allowed to take the law into their own hands. And if it calls for the deployment of soldiers to stop South Africans from taking the law into their own hands, then that is exactly what they are going to do. They want to match on the on the 30th. It's fine cuz they think they think they have the right to do so.
But within those rights is to also remind each other to say it's a constitutional right to which we the framework of the law.
Only police can ask for identity [clears throat] from people, not any other citizen that goes about and says pass and not pass.
So, to really uh confirm that they have the right to do so. When they say watch this space, I'm saying if the whole country can come up with treating, it's allowed.
There are steps that have to be followed. You have to notify the police. They have to plan with you. You must have marshals. so it's not as if really you have to watch the space because it's legal. So, there's nothing to watch for. It's legal. It just has to be done properly.
So, there's no need to hype and to panic and say watch the space. It's there, it's legal. So, there's nothing I'm saying it's it shouldn't really cause lots of anxiety, but let's just do it properly so that as the minister is saying, you can protect the marshals, you can plan properly, you can ensure that we can protect property, but also not take law into our hands because it's only law enforcement officers who have the right and responsibility to be asking for identities of people.
So, people should not wait outside there. And that's what I was saying.
And I was saying to them, come the there's nothing which makes fight with this sort of things because of it.
Then the imagine the 50th there'll be the 1st of July which would see it force us together as South Africans to pick up the pieces and work together to build our country. Now, personally, if you've been following me for a while on this channel, I'm pretty sure you know my stance on Angie Motseka. I don't like Angie Motseka as the Minister of Defense.
I mean, she is not qualified.
And that is no secret. She is not qualified for the position that she's occupying.
She only got that position because she has a connection with Cyril Ramaphosa.
But then, that is not that she deserves.
There's a lot of people here in South Africa who deserve that position.
People who actually understand how military works.
People who have experience in military.
There's a lot of those people, but you would wonder why those people were not given the opportunity, but the opportunity was given to a former Minister of Education.
A person who was a The of Education for years upon years. That's the only thing she knows. She knows nothing about defense. She knows nothing about the security of a country. Imagine such an important department, the department of defense.
The department that we depend on for our safety and our protection as the citizens of South Africa. That department is run by a person who speaks as if she's not even concerned about what is going on in South Africa. We have noticed the energy that politicians, particularly those in government have for calling for the state to unleash the brutality of the state on us.
For demanding what belongs to us.
Why do we not see the same energy against the criminal cartels that we already know we have in the country?
Not once have we had government calling out Nigerians for selling drugs in South Africa and destroying the future of this country. And just yesterday we were watching them on another episode of Sizok'thola telling us that the ground is fertile for crime in this country.
Yet we have not heard government calling them out. We have not heard government calling out Somalis and the people of Pakistan and Ethiopians for and telling them to dismantle the cartels that they are running in our country as well as the spaza shop mafias.
We are aware that the executive is planning to unleash the army on us in June.
Yet they have dismally failed to remove the illegal immigrants from our from our shores.
The prioritization of foreign nationals in South Africa is deeply appalling.
South Africa is currently on the verge of a collapse. The economy is crumbling.
There are no resources left for South Africans and there's certainly not enough resources for foreign nationals.
Instead of coming out and deploying the soldiers to go and deal with the Somali mafias, the Pakistani mafias, the Nigerian drug lords, instead of deploying the military to go against those people who are a threat to our national security, the people who are terrorizing the citizens of South Africa, they instead want to deploy the soldiers to come and patrol us as South African citizens so that we don't take the law into our own hands. When it matters, they don't deploy the military, but when it doesn't matter, they want to deploy the military.
We therefore cannot allow this to continue while our people continue to suffer.
The government has in the 2026-2027 financial year budgeted and allocated 292 billion 800 million rands for social grants.
This confirms that many South Africans are dependent on social grants, which highlights the scale of urgency of the problem because South Africa is a welfare state.
Majority of foreign nationals that are in South Africa are not real refugees.
These are economic migrants who have and continue to abuse our laws.
They have taken over the informal economy, colluded with Home Affairs officials in creating fraudulent documents to bring their countrymen into our country.
Our township economy has been hijacked by Somalis and foreign nationals from Pakistan and Ethiopia. In Durban alone, over 340 permits have been given to foreign nationals to operate in the Durban CBD as we sit here currently.
The strain in our public uh facilities is getting out of hand with the departments such as health, education, and social development struggling to service South Africans properly because they end up having to service a lot more foreign nationals than they should.
The underfunding of the PMA is also a grave concern to us and that requires urgent intervention.
It is pointless to fund the Department of Labor so that they can employ 10,000 inspectors when your borders are wide open. This is poor planning from the government because those 10,000 inspectors should be assisting the only 800 immigration officers that we have in the entire country.
We have noted hundreds of thousands of migrants coming to our country as tourists and then end up as refugees and business people as well as criminals or even employers.
The time has come for government now to close the tap and deport all of these immigrants.
We do not want to see illegal immigrants working for checkers 6060 coming to our homes to deliver our food as this is not a critical or scarce skill.
These jobs must be reserved only for South Africans in order for us to win the war against inequality and poverty.
But then my fellow beautiful South Africans, we really need to stand behind March in March, honestly.
We honestly need to support March in March.
You know, I don't think the government expected what is happening here in South Africa right now.
I don't think they've ever expected that there's going to come an organization that is going to hold them accountable publicly.
We are concerned perhaps from the um the the the the Minister of Defense's uh remarks that the 30th of June date that we have given to for for for for the illegal foreign nationals to vacate the country and then they take it as just another shutdown that the they've seen many. So so so it it it for us it seems like it's a government that doesn't take South Africans seriously.
South Africans are saying they have it enough with illegal foreign nationals and they want them removed from this country. That's basically what the South Africans are saying.
Two, we want to make it very clear that our call is an anti-xenophobic call.
It's a call that takes the national security of the country at hand and we want to protect the South Africa as South Africans. And we also want to do away or or or take away the notion that South Africans this is a tribal or ethnic mobilization. So we want to actually point out I'm just yesterday I think it was yesterday or the day before Jacinta was in Cape Town. The people of the Western Cape they are having a challenge with this issue of illegal foreign nationals. Just now we've just checked in our social media in the Northwest in Rustenburg there will be March and March in Limpopo currently there are plans underway. So so this is just not a Zulu problem. It's a South African problem the issue of illegal foreign nationals. You know when March and March started it started as an organization that's just going to trend for a few weeks or a few months and then disappear like most organizations here in South Africa.
But there's something very different about this March and March and it's something that is starting to scare our politicians because they can see the power that March and March has.
March and March has the people of South Africa behind it. Zikalala has the people of South Africa behind her.
And the level to which South Africans are angry right now, they can do anything to protect Muchin Malema and protect Zikalala.
And I think that thing is very very scary for a government.
We are seeing people protesting against illegal immigration, which is a valid concern. South Africa is one of the highest receivers of migrants, immigrants in the on the continent. So, I think where there are concerns of illegal immigration, we have to take them seriously. And where we are able to receive petitions from individuals petitioning this type of conduct, we we welcome that. What we are concerned about is people taking the law into their own hands and acts of vigilantism randomly finding people on the street and then asking them for juice to produce documents. We think that's an element which we need to nip in the bud.
And we would we would have seen the Minister of Police issued a statement to this effect saying that that will not be condoned at all and that will be addressed by law enforcement agencies.
So, we want to say that whilst there concerns around illegal immigration are valid, the state is also taking the necessary steps to address these.
>> If people were to choose right now on who to fight against given Muchin Malema or the government they're going to fight against the government. And that thing I think is very very scary for the government.
So, my fellow beautiful South Africans, let us support Muchin Malema because it's holding these people accountable.
It's exposing them and their corruption.
It's exposing them that they allowed our country to be turned into a banana republic.
Whenever Muchin Malema speaks, South Africans listen.
But when the ANC speaks South Africans close their ears. South Africans no longer want to hear anything that comes from the ANC or the EFF or these political parties because South Africans are starting to understand that the biggest problem that we have in this country is exactly these political parties.
So, March and March came as something where South Africans can actually come together for a common cause.
And that is very, very powerful.
That is very, very powerful.
So, my fellow beautiful South Africans, that's just what I wanted to talk about in this episode of The Spotlight. So, tell me on the comment section down below, what do you think about this situation right here? I would really appreciate to hear your own thoughts and opinions. But then, if you just enjoyed this video or you learned something new, please leave a like and subscribe to this channel. I would really, really appreciate it. My name is Emmanuel and this is Mzansi Versity, the place where we transform lives through knowledge and information. Let's meet again on another video.
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