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wiseone28:
Does it means the black sad African can't do the farming

Black south africans don't have the brain capacity to do it, bcoz the afrikaners never show them the way.

omooba969:
Black south africans don't have the brain capacity to do it, bcoz the afrikaners never show them the way.

So says a Hunger-gerian. Rice net importer! Wonders never end 😂😂😂

People thought White South Afikans will heed Trump invitation to seek asylum in US and abandoned their rich farms 🤠

RandDigital:
Nigerian haters will be happy to hear as Trump offers Afrikaner farmers refugee visas, there are others from UK, Israel and Southern Africa wishing to fill their space 😎

..... They want to help u Lazy black S.A so that u can see food to eat. H.I.V riddled drug infested black Xenophobic m.orons

MasterJayJay:
You are actually an ignoramus.


Owners of farms is different from labourers.

Your IQ must be less than that of a cockroach for you to believe that labourers can replace farm owners.

🤣🤣🤣

RandDigital:
Go argue with Business Tech and Department of Labour who state clearly these are figures for both farmers and labourers.

I'm well aware its your nature to disregard facts in Nigeria and instead amplify fake news.

You'll end up demonising them, attack them for xenophobic reasons.

You know you would.

Colonization is now happening in reverse order. They will start running to Africa to feed and reproduce with our fertile men. Unfortunately, Nigeria na still mumu, causing her citizens to japa steadily.

RandDigital:
Nigerian haters will be happy to hear as Trump offers Afrikaner farmers refugee visas, there are others from UK, Israel and Southern Africa wishing to fill their space 😎

The development is a positive for South Africa and to Africa at large.

Those foreign aliens would work up good wages and repatriate most of that fund to Their kith and kins back home, which will improve their standard of living and in the bigger picture project the standard of living in Africa in a positive light to the rest of the world.

Positive economic dynamics like this should be applauded and envied respectfully.

RandDigital:
Nigerian haters will be happy to hear as Trump offers Afrikaner farmers refugee visas, there are others from UK, Israel and Southern Africa wishing to fill their space 😎

All these farmers, would they be enough to tackle food security?

RandDigital:
Farmers and agricultural workers are flooding into South Africa from neighbouring countries such as Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia, and Mozambique.

This data was detailed in a recent Parliamentary Q&A, where the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) was asked for the total number of work permits issued in the last financial year.

In response, the DEL explained that it provides recommendations on corporate work visa applications regarding the availability of local labour in various categories.

According to the department, it received 60 corporate work visa applications covering 6,255 migrant workers.

Of these, the DEL negatively recommended (rejected) 5,383 (86%) and positively recommended (approved) 872 (14%).

The approved visas included workers from several countries, including China, India, the Kingdom of Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Pakistan, the UK, Israel, and Zimbabwe.

The various sectors included agriculture, education and training, manufacturing, mining, maritime, wholesale, and retail.

However, 91% (796) of the recommended approvals of work visas from the Department of Employment and Labour were for farmers and agricultural workers.

Most of these foreign agricultural workers came from neighbouring countries, Zimbabwe (445), Lesotho (250), Namibia (70), and Mozambique (30).

WHY ARE THEY COMING TO SOUTH AFRICA?

The chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz), Wandile Sihlobo, told BusinessTech that these migrant farmers and workers are moving to South Africa for better opportunities and pay.

“South Africa’s agriculture is robust and growing. We had about 924,000 people working in primary agriculture at the end of the last quarter of 2024.

“There are workers in the sector from neighbouring countries who are attracted by competitive wages in South Africa’s agriculture,” he said.

“The revised agricultural Minimum Wage in South Africa is R28.79 per hour. In Namibia, the sectoral determination for farm workers is at R10 per hour.” This makes work in South Africa attractive, he said.

In some instances, Sihlobo added that farmers also provide lodging, which assists. Some, such as Lesotho, bring unique skills in sheep shearing, amongst other aspects.

However, Sihlobo stressed the importance of ensuring that South African workers receive primary work opportunities and that neighbouring countries supplement them when necessary.

Cos average South African is lazy. They don't want to work.

foreshore:
Cos average South African is lazy. They don't want to work.

It's not that they're lazy. It's that they're exhausted from constantly kissing nonblacks asses.

If South Africa can get it right, take more farming land from the whites to the blacks, give blacks grants to cultivate, .........ehehehehheeh....that is the year we will know that lucifer resides inside the hearts of black South Africans. The way they will bully the whites....If I was the whites there, I would gladly take Trump's offer now. Devil resides inside those black South Africans. Cos the same Nigeria that issued them passports for them to leave and fight from abroad when the whites refused to issue them S.A. passports is the same Nigeria they have turned to their enemy. South Africa blacks are the devil's real children. Trust me when I say so......but mark my words, they will soon return to Nigeria for backup again. Na so dem no get shame oooo. And after they have run over the whites and those ones leave S.A., they will mismanaged everything and return to their old poverty. Mark my words.

Even with flight ticket and hotel booking. It has never crossed my mind to even go for site seeing. A country where even the white among them had decided to create their own country inside the country. Those people are the most inhabitable set of people on the surface of this earth

Numerouno94:
Good for them. And gud one from SA. But if u like give me free SA visa and work permit, I nor go.

RandDigital:
Farmers and agricultural workers are flooding into South Africa from neighbouring countries such as Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia, and Mozambique.

This data was detailed in a recent Parliamentary Q&A, where the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) was asked for the total number of work permits issued in the last financial year.

In response, the DEL explained that it provides recommendations on corporate work visa applications regarding the availability of local labour in various categories.

According to the department, it received 60 corporate work visa applications covering 6,255 migrant workers.

Of these, the DEL negatively recommended (rejected) 5,383 (86%) and positively recommended (approved) 872 (14%).

The approved visas included workers from several countries, including China, India, the Kingdom of Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Pakistan, the UK, Israel, and Zimbabwe.

The various sectors included agriculture, education and training, manufacturing, mining, maritime, wholesale, and retail.

However, 91% (796) of the recommended approvals of work visas from the Department of Employment and Labour were for farmers and agricultural workers.

Most of these foreign agricultural workers came from neighbouring countries, Zimbabwe (445), Lesotho (250), Namibia (70), and Mozambique (30).

WHY ARE THEY COMING TO SOUTH AFRICA?

The chief economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz), Wandile Sihlobo, told BusinessTech that these migrant farmers and workers are moving to South Africa for better opportunities and pay.

“South Africa’s agriculture is robust and growing. We had about 924,000 people working in primary agriculture at the end of the last quarter of 2024.

“There are workers in the sector from neighbouring countries who are attracted by competitive wages in South Africa’s agriculture,” he said.

“The revised agricultural Minimum Wage in South Africa is R28.79 per hour. In Namibia, the sectoral determination for farm workers is at R10 per hour.” This makes work in South Africa attractive, he said.

In some instances, Sihlobo added that farmers also provide lodging, which assists. Some, such as Lesotho, bring unique skills in sheep shearing, amongst other aspects.

However, Sihlobo stressed the importance of ensuring that South African workers receive primary work opportunities and that neighbouring countries supplement them when necessary.

South Africa has vast arable lands and temperate climate, so, it's NOT surprising that this is happening and indeed it has ALWAYS happened. In the past decades, citizens of Southern African countries neighboring South Africa used to come in to work in the SA mines. So, SA has got the allure for income generation for folks on different economic ladders.

omooba969:
Black south africans don't have the brain capacity to do it, bcoz the afrikaners never show them the way.

That's NOT a correct assessment of the current human development capacity situation on the ground in South Africa. I have South Africans as my good friends and associates of different ethnic backgrounds who are very brilliant and globally sound. Even Zimbabwe had a literacy rate of 98 percent in the early 2000s showing the high standard of education there right from when Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain back in the in April 1980 and changed it's name from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe..

Ever since the notorious apartheid system led by those insane elements among the Afrikaans ended, South Africans have boosted the capacity building programs of her citizens and there's an elite core of indigenous South Africas who are excelling in different spheres of human endeavor.

South Africa even has an indigenous citizen Patrice Motsepe (the chair of African Rainbow Minerals and a mining CEO) who's on the Forbes list of legitimate USD billionaires in addition to White South African USD billionaires making a total of 6 South African citizens listed on the Forbes list of legit USD billionaires as of 2025.

Konquest:
South Africa has vast arable lands and temperate climate, so, it's NOT surprising that this is happening and indeed it has ALWAYS happened. In the past decades, citizens of Southern African countries neighboring South Africa used to come in to work in the SA mines. So, SA has got the allure for income generation for folks on different economic ladders.

True.

kiddkash:
All these farmers, would they be enough to tackle food security?

It would be if SA went on a concerted skills drive abroad, it's clear there's international interest. Especially if Afrikaner farmers take up Trump's offer to move to the US. Others will definitely plug the gap.

RandDigital:
Nigerian haters will be happy to hear as Trump offers Afrikaner farmers refugee visas, there are others from UK, Israel and Southern Africa wishing to fill their space 😎

Point of correction

Nigerians are not haters of south africans because if we were to be anything close to you guys in terms of hatred for other africa then your companies and businesses in nigeria will be bleeding right now.

Secondly, those white farmers who indicated their interest to migrate to us are not going there as refugees because they are going through an investment program which requires each person paying a total sum of 800,000 to 1 million. Now imagine over 20,000 white farmers moving search huge amount from south africa to the united states. Also put into consideration that the 20,000 people who have already indicated interest are not the only people interested in that particular program which is currently different from the ones going there as refugees.

Finally before you celebrate that foreign farmers are coming to south africa, ask yourself, HOW MUCH ARE THEY BRINGING INTO SOUTH AFRICA? THE MONEY THEY WILL MAKE IN SOUTH AFRICA ARE THEY GOING TO STAY IN SOUTH AFRICA OR WILL BE REPATRIATED TO THEIR COUNTRY CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT THOSE WHITE FARMERS DESPERATE TO LEAVE SOUTH AFRICA ARE LEAVING WITH THEIR WEALTH THEY GOT IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE FOREIGN FARMERS COMING TO SOUTH AFRICA ARE COMING TO MAKE MONEY AND SEND TO THEIR HOME COUNTRY

THE BOOK OF PROVERBS SAYS WISDOM IS THE PRINCIPAL TEAM BUT WITH ALL YOUR GETTING MAKE SURE YOU GET UNDERSTANDING

Konquest:
That's NOT a correct assessment of the current human development capacity situation on the ground in South Africa. I have South Africans as my good friends and associates of different ethnic backgrounds who are very brilliant and globally sound. Even Zimbabwe had a literacy rate of 98 percent in the early 2000s showing the high standard of education there right from when Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain back in the in April 1980 and changed it's name from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe..

Ever since the notorious apartheid system led by those insane elements among the Afrikaans ended, South Africans have boosted the capacity building programs of her citizens and there's an elite core of indigenous South Africas who are excelling in different spheres of human endeavor.

South Africa even has an indigenous citizen Patrice Motsepe (the chair of African Rainbow Minerals and a mining CEO) who's on the Forbes list of legitimate USD billionaires in addition to White South African USD billionaires making a total of 6 South African citizens listed on the Forbes list of legit USD billionaires as of 2025.

A bit of unwarranted information I must say, but I'm not really interested. I expected an insightful response to my comment, at least, on how the black south africans would fare or outperform if the afrikaaners were to leave SA.

Remember the events that followed when the white farmers were ejected from Zimbabwe? The black south africans would not be immuned to same reality IMO.

;[

RandDigital:
MariaDevilish, the first hater to bounce off the walls. Weren't you rejoicing Afrikaner farmers had been invited to leave SA? Don't wail over the antidote. For every Afrikaner that wants to leave, someone else is more than happy to fill their space under the wonderful South African sun😎

get your a***ss off this forum...does this look like your xenophobic forum...This is Nairaland....

Ah, make dem remove Pakistani from the list o!

koladata:
Even with flight ticket and hotel booking. It has never crossed my mind to even go for site seeing. A country where even the white among them had decided to create their own country inside the country. Those people are the most inhabitable set of people on the surface of this earth

omooba969:
A bit of unwarranted information I must say, but I'm not really interested. I expected an insightful response to my comment, at least, on how the black south africans would fare or outperform if the afrikaaners were to leave SA.

Remember the events that followed when the white farmers were ejected from Zimbabwe? The black south africans would not be immuned to same reality IMO.

I'm a man who pays attention to little details before strongly striking out. My original response was based off of what you typed in your initial post which was a bit scanty and didn't contain the specifics you are now talking about. Effective CLARITY in communication is key. You are ONLY just providing more CLARITY in this current reply.

My honest opinion as someone who is well-traveled internationally (with a vast understanding of global geoeconomic and geopolitical dynamics), I don't see White South Africans being fully ejected from SA in the mid-term to long-term like the Zimbabwean situation (where international sanctions got imposed on that country) and the White folks have said it as well that they DON'T want to leave South Africa for the United States in large numbers. If any of them eventually leaves and indeed, there are some who showed interest and made some inquiries on the official U.S. Website portal that deals with immigration into the United States, but they would still have to pay between 800,000 USD and 1 million USD (I'm hearing of a new 5 million USD investors golden visa introduction by Donald Trump which has further raised the entry bar).

In a WORSE case scenario though, if the Zimbabwean experience were to take place in South Africa, then they obviously will run into some agri production inefficiencies from farm gate to the sales outlets in the short-to medium-term. BUT since necessity is the ultimate mother of inventions, the indigenous South Africans will certainly pull through by using green house technologies, aquaponics, hydroponics, improved varieties of seedlings, and more to increase the output of specific crops and livestock which grow favorably in the temperature climate of South Africa.

Enjoy you day.