JOHANNESBURG — South African
women married to Nigerians,
yesterday, threatened to stage
mass protest in Johannesburg to
stop discrimination against them,
their husbands and children.
Mrs Lindelwa Uche, the
chairperson of the United
Nigerian Wives in South Africa,
UNWISA, made this known in an
interview with the News Agency
of Nigeria during the launch of
the association, Sunday, in
Johannesburg.
Uche said that South African
society did not take their
marriage to Nigerians as serious
relationships.
Some South African women
married to Nigerians staged a
peaceful protest in
Johannesburg.
Some South African women
married to Nigerians staged a
peaceful protest in
Johannesburg.
She said: “Our society does not
take our marriages serious, they
see our marriages as relations of
convenience and perceive us as
evil to the society.
“All of us are South Africans
married to Nigerians living in
South Africa, we decided to come
together to fight against
stigmatisation, discrimination,
and humiliation, against our
families by government
departments and agency and the
officials of the government, the
community and our-in-laws.”
The chairperson said an earlier
protest march by the members of
the association had not
generated any response from the
Home affairs office.
“We protested against
discrimination from home affairs
officials in March this year, and
since after that protest we have
not received any response from
the government. We felt before
we embark on any further action
we should come together and
form an association registered
by law.
“After the official launch of our
association, our next action will
be more than just a protest
march to the city of
Johannesburg home affairs
office. It is going to be a protest
where we will strip on the street
of Johannesburg, so that people
and government will know that
there is an existing body and
that we are not happy with the
way our non South Africans
husband and children are being
treated.
“We also plan to carry our
protest to Nigeria, we know that
some South Africans also have
businesses in Nigeria, if it is
necessary we will take actions
that will stop South Africa
businesses operating in Nigeria.
Indeed we are ready to go that
far.
“We have been quiet for so long
but we cannot can’t take it
anymore, for the sake of the
future of our children, we have
to put an end to this
discrimination.”
She said there was need for
them to collectively tackle the
issue of some Nigerians residing
in South Africa being unfairly
separated from their families due
to pending residence permit that
eventually lead to deportations.
“If we don’t stand up as
daughter of the soil and fight
discrimination against our
marriages who will, if we don’t
stand up and fight for the rights
of our husbands when they are
being violated and treated
shabily by officials of the
government and citizens alike
who will.
“If we don’t stand up for our
children when they are being
called derogatory names like
“Small lee kwere-kwere” or
turning their natives names
upside down deliberately by our
community in the name of
making them feel like aliens,
outcast, and unwelcome, or even
when their Nigerian aunties and
uncles call them bustards, then
their future is in jeopardy.
“If we don’t stand up when our
countrymen and women, officials
and in-law address us as paper
wives, gold diggers, stupid and
opportunist, who will do that for
us, ” Uche queried.
She said the notion that all
Nigerians are criminals must be
corrected.
“We are in a country of law and
order, if anyone is found guilty
let the law take its course, we are
not saying Nigerians
are good or bad, even in the
South Africa society, there are
criminals and indeed there is no
country in the world that does
not have criminals,’’ Uche said.
Ikechkwu Anyene, President of
the Nigeria Union in South Africa
(NUSA), said the association is a
good initiative by the women
who are suffering discrimination
and humiliation because they are
married to Nigerians.
“We at the NUSA have been
working with them even before
the association was registered as
a body, we were with them
when they carried a protest
match to the home affairs office
in Johannesburg,
“we will continue to support
them to achieve their goal which
is to put an end to discrimination
by the government officials and
their brothers and sisters
towards them for being married
to Nigerian.
“The initiative is also to unite
Nigeria and South Africa and
indeed the whole of Africa, to
see each other as brothers and
sisters and to ensure that we
stand by one another,” Anyene
said.
He, however, advised the body to
carry along all South Africans
married to Nigerians irrespective
of their tribe and geo-political
zone and the tribe of their
husbands.

hardniola: SA should deport dem to alaibo.they look hunngry to me.

Uche queried.
She said the notion that all
Nigerians are criminals must be
corrected.
“We are in a country of law and
order, if anyone is found guilty
let the law take its course, we are
not saying Nigerians
are good or bad, even in the
South Africa society, there are
criminals and indeed there is no
country in the world that does
not have criminals,’’

Hernadez99: Mtchewww!!! **continues playing Rick Ross ft Jay Z Free Mason**

Super1759: Where is nadia, the president of UNWISA

Yungwizzzy: lwkmd they even have association. association of jobless south African woman nigeria fine boys admires.
who send you? who tell you say naija man get your time? na hustle we dey oo

Hernadez99: Mtchewww!!! **continues playing Rick Ross ft Jay Z Free Mason**

Tolexander: Those are the women that value the joystickal endowment of LOVE thier Nigerian guys. And our ladies will be here doing yanga to us.

Well, the bible has finished it by saying  "A
prophet is not without
honor except in his own
town, among his relatives
and in his own home."

nadia_SA: edited

tolexander: Those are the women that value the joystickal endowment of Nigerian guys. And our ladies will be here doing yanga to us.

Well, the bible has finished it by saying [color=crimson]

nadia_SA: abu

seedord247:

with your chinko phone right?