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Lionessza6:
Nobody is “walking back” anything. Understanding international relations, diplomacy, and investment does not mean a country must abandon its immigration procedures whenever a wealthy businessman arrives with expired documents.

Serious people understand both sovereignty and diplomacy. They understand that cooperation between nations is built through policy, agreements, and institutions .....not emotional pressure campaigns every time discretion is not exercised.

Oh hush!

You stance is softening because I'm exposing your nature .

TFOH.

Lionessza6:
And with all those crime statistics constantly thrown around online, South Africa still remains one of the top destinations in Africa for migrants, asylum seekers, international students, investors, tourists, and job seekers.

Meanwhile, Nigerians themselves are leaving Nigeria in massive numbers for Europe, North America, the Gulf, and yes .... even South Africa. That alone tells you where people believe opportunities, infrastructure, economic prospects, and even overall stability and security are comparatively better.

So the endless attempts to portray South Africa as some uniquely unbearable hellscape clearly do not match the migration reality

Hoity Toity.

We are talking about international relations and making it easier for trade, commerce and investments whilst you're here on your high-horse.

Sound like you dwell in a Skwata Kamp.

Lionessza6:
And this fantasy that South African immigration just waves in every “white undesirable” while targeting Africans is tired and unserious. Plenty of Europeans, Americans, and other foreigners get denied entry, deported, blacklisted, or refused visas every year for failing to meet immigration requirements.

The difference is that most people do not turn a routine immigration issue into a continental victimhood speech the moment they are told “no.” Go to Greece abeg

Trying to walk back your position.

As I've said.

My post is not for the unreasonable.

There are those who understand international relations , diplomacy and the strength of investments.

Lionessza6:
“I repeat, you are stuck on xenophobia when you should be seeking relationships to improve the wellbeing of your state.”

Funny coming from citizens of a country that should be far more focused on fixing electricity, insecurity, corruption, infrastructure, and economic instability at home before lecturing others about how to run their immigration systems.

South Africa seeking relationships does not mean surrendering its right to enforce its own laws whenever a wealthy foreign businessman arrives with expired documents. Cooperation and sovereignty are not mutually exclusive. Go and cry elsewhere .

Insecurity?


Yes, South Africa has an extremely high crime rate, particularly regarding violent crimes. It consistently ranks among the most dangerous countries globally, with severe issues including high rates of murder, assault, sexual violence, and organized crime.

Key Crime Statistics & Trends:Violent Crime: The country routinely records one of the highest per-capita murder and rape rates in the world, with tens of thousands of violent incidents reported annually.Property & Opportunistic Crime: Armed robberies, home invasions, carjackings, and "smash-and-grab" attacks on vehicles are widespread.Underlying Causes: High crime levels are largely driven by deep socioeconomic issues, including extreme poverty, staggering economic inequality, and high unemployment

Lionessza6:
“The same place would quickly grant entry to a broke white junkie” ..... except immigration policy is based on passport agreements and visa status, not your emotional assumptions about random white people.

A person with visa-free access enters legally. A person with an expired visa does not. That is the issue here.

Everything else is just deflection and racial baiting because some people cannot accept that South Africa enforced its own immigration rules.

Yeah.

You agree with a country filled with white people, and you would make no exemption despite their status and possible motives.

Can't you see how ridiculous you sound?

Lionessza6:
What does South African crime have to do with an expired visa exactly? That is pure deflection.

The issue was simple: a traveller arrived with invalid documents and was denied entry. Bringing up unrelated crime statistics and YouTube videos does not magically change immigration law. He was sent back not because of SA criminals because he attempted to enter SA without valid documents 💁‍♀️

It has a lot to do with an expired visa.

Entry into a country is not meant to be challenge, especially when the identity, reason for entry and travel history could easily be verified.

I repeat, you are stuck on xenophobia when you should be seeking relationships to improve the wellbeing of your state.

IronGalaxy:
You can talk down on our country all you like, it doesnt change the fact, its a better country in most ramifications.. the crux of yall bitterness..

Nigeria is struggling and I hold multiple citizenship.

Doesn't mean Nigeria or Africa would struggle forever.

Just close-mimded.

Lionessza6:
Maybe that is exactly why your own country is such a mess .... laws are treated as flexible suggestions depending on status, wealth, connections, or influence. Then when another country refuses to play that game, suddenly it becomes “disrespect” and “anti-African.”

South Africa did not imprison the man. He was simply denied entry because his visa had expired. The hysterics and fake moral outrage afterwards are what people are mocking.

“This is why South Africa is losing respect” ....according to who exactly? Online people angry that immigration laws were enforced?

Most countries are respected when they apply their laws consistently, not when they abandon them because a wealthy foreign businessman arrives with expired documents and expects exceptions. Respect is not built on emotional pressure or selective outrage.

Just the nature of xenophobic South Africans.

The same place would quickly grant entry to a broke white man who' s a junkie.

The joke's on you.

Lionessza6:
Maybe that is exactly why your own country is such a mess .... laws are treated as flexible suggestions depending on status, wealth, connections, or influence. Then when another country refuses to play that game, suddenly it becomes “disrespect” and “anti-African.”

South Africa did not imprison the man. He was simply denied entry because his visa had expired. The hysterics and fake moral outrage afterwards are what people are mocking.

“This is why South Africa is losing respect” ....according to who exactly? Online people angry that immigration laws were enforced?

Most countries are respected when they apply their laws consistently, not when they abandon them because a wealthy foreign businessman arrives with expired documents and expects exceptions. Respect is not built on emotional pressure or selective outrage.

The number of YouTube videos of crime in South Africa carried out by South Africans makes your chest beating rudderless.

Lionessza6:
Then go sing praises to Greece. South Africa is under no obligation to copy another country’s immigration practices just because a wealthy businessman felt inconvenienced.

What is happening here is simple: you are angry that discretion was not extended to someone you believe is important enough to deserve special treatment. Fine. But stop dressing it up as some grand anti-African injustice.

A sovereign country enforced its immigration laws. The world did not end.🫡

It has a lot to do with his status.

Clearly not going into your country to commit a crime, to live there, to constitute a nuisance.

Rather he is there to improve relationships and business across 2 African nations.

The issue for you is that you see it as an opportunity to reduce his status rather than opportunity to cooperate.

My retort is not for you.

Certainly not for those who harbour xenophobia.

It's for those who understand that international travel, business and relationships improve the wellbeing of those involved and should be encouraged.

Lionessza6:
If South Africa revises the law, that is the government’s decision. Until then, the law is the law 🤣

And good luck with the emotional blackmail and arm-twisting campaign. An expired visa is still an expired visa.

To mouth breathers.

A visa is simply a document that permits travel.

It's not a jail sentence nor a means to demean.

Once a person meets certain criteria it could be waived or fast-tracked.

This is exactly why South Africa is losing its respect.

You take everything as a "pepper dem" opportunity.

IronGalaxy:
bigmanism doesnt work in SA boss.. the laws apply for everyone

It's not bigmanism.

It's common sense.

One would think South Africa is such a pristine place without high levels of crime.

Violence and corruption is even rife in SA.

Mtcheeew.

Lionessza6:
Good for those countries. South Africa is not obligated to suspend its immigration laws because someone is wealthy or influential. Let him choose to go invest there then. We are clearly not deserving of His Majesty.

An expired visa does not become valid because the passport holder owns companies....and that's that.

Your country would revise this law.

Let's see whether you would picket the government.

Lionessza6:
So because he is rich, the law must bend for him? That mentality explains a lot about why corruption is so normalised in your country.

An expired visa is an expired visa. Immigration officers are not there to kneel before billionaires because they employ people. If anything, someone operating at that level should know better than to travel with invalid documents.

And enough with the fake outrage about “Africans being treated less than.” South Africa has visa-waiver agreements with certain countries. That is diplomacy and policy, not racism. Crying because Europeans entered legally while he could not is not an argument ... it is pure entitlement dressed up as Pan-Africanism.

If South Africa is supposedly so terrible to Africans, why are thousands still trying to enter, work, invest, study, and settle there every year? Clearly the reality does not match the constant online outrage.

It is not corruption.

It is exemption and recognition.

I personally experienced it travelling to Greece with my Nigerian passport.

They offered me a Greek visa on the spot.

To you, it cannot make sense if it does not give you an opportunity to demean another.

Lionessza6:
“My visa expired, South Africa followed its immigration laws… but somehow South Africa is still wrong because Europeans from visa-exempt countries entered legally.”

The entitlement and gaslighting are genuinely exhausting and comical at the same time. If some of their rich and influential people reason like this, imagine the mindset of the average person ..... then people wonder why Nigeria is a place to escape from not to.

There are countries that would fast-track his entry that aren't even African.

I have experienced it personally.

Lionessza6:
The entitlement towards South Africa is becoming nauseating.

South Africa did not “deny an African entry while welcoming Europeans.” South Africa enforced its immigration laws exactly as every sovereign country does.

Mr. Rabiu himself admitted his visa had expired before arrival. That is not discrimination ..... that is immigration compliance. If a South African arrived in Nigeria, the UK, USA, or even Rwanda with an expired visa, they would also be denied entry.

The comparison with Europeans is also misleading. Many European countries have bilateral visa-waiver agreements with South Africa based on tourism, trade, and reciprocity. In the same way, many fellow Africans....especially citizens from SADC countries such as Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Eswatini and others.....enjoy visa-free or easier access into South Africa because of regional African agreements.

So the claim that “Africans are rejected while Europeans are welcomed” is simply not true. Millions of Africans enter South Africa legally every year through existing African regional agreements.

South Africans themselves still need visas for many African countries, including Nigeria in most cases. No country suspends its immigration laws because a visitor is wealthy, influential, or African. Rules are rules, and every traveller is responsible for ensuring their documents are valid before boarding a flight.

Stop the BS.

The individual we speak about deserves a fast-track, and your policy sucks.

He's an investor and employer of labour in your country.

I'm not talking about your skwata camps type of businesses.

If there was a country that treats Africans as less than, it is South Africa.

Learn to understand.

PulaPower:
How many countries has Nicki reacted to regarding elections?

Mention 2..

USA.
UK.

She's not a citizen of either.

Ogbanje Shildren.

Shioor!

Dem for no strip am sha.

Nobody would dictate to a 5000 year civilisation what it can or cannot do when they themselves do the same.

Freshtruth:
Arsenal his a massive club side not just a club dangonte can't even run Aston villa

Yet he has more wealth than the owner of Arsenal.

Not making any sense at the moment.

Freshtruth:
bro if sangonte run arsenal he go broke bro

Story.

Because he's a black man or what?

Those that don't have his wealth have been managing theirs for years, yet it's Dangote you are condemning.

Freshtruth:
did I lie before u feel say epl na dodo league

Nothing compared to a refinery.

Is it that you guys don't have knowledge?


Stan Kroenke Net worth 26 Billion

Alike Dangote Net Worth 32 Billion.

Freshtruth:
Dangonte just dey use una head. He feel take to run club for england na beans I no wan talk about signing of players just only weekly salaries ooooo. You feel say na Nigerian workers wey u dey hold salaries.


Buying of club is not the problem but running it.

Wetein dey pain me some Nigerians just dey believe say this lamba master can really buy a team like arsenal. Dangonte just dey use Arsenal speculation they boost is image.

Oga go rest

Bad belle.

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Did Xi tell you he agrees?



Their body language tells who's the Boss.

Nwaikpe:
Ok. Sir

By the way, I find any person of colour who votes Nigel Farage or Trump a sellout.

They are repugnant.

As seen in Tennesse, Alabama, Louisianna today.
All black districts are redistricted and diluted to ensure you have no representation.

For you, it's for clicks and likes.

Those that come after you would talk about you.

Nwaikpe:
So you will need 3 whole days to read up about an election?


I now know the source of this dumb reasoning.

Took you 3 days.

Trying to deny.

Nwaikpe:
Yeah,
In the same way, you were sure of how much I know about the significance of the elections.

E pain am.



Took him 3 days to read up on the last uk elections.

Feeling funky about UK.

What manner of gibberish is this?

Nwaikpe:
No, I who voted Reform, don't know.
You in Nigeria do know.

You're sure of my location?

Well deserved.

This is especially common with people of influence over the weak and vulnerable whom they can exploit.

Life with heavy labour would have been appropriate.

He should tell us why he is going to leave NDP abi weting be the name of his new party sef?