₦airaland Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtbJDNbnnuI?si=WC6If-F2Av9VTc2k

Ghanaian nationals queued at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport early on Wednesday to board one of the first flights home after waves of anti-immigrant protests in South Africa heightened safety concerns.

The group of 300 people included women and ‌children, in what authorities described as a voluntary repatriation process for Ghanaian citizens who say they no longer feel safe.

South African authorities have been working with Ghanaian authorities on a list of around 800 people who have indicated they want to leave.

A South African immigration official, who was not identified on screen, told local television station eNCA: "What we ⁠found is that of the 300 (on the first flight), only 10 of them are legal in the country, so quite a number of them are in non-compliance to our immigration act."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtOiDtaC_AE?si=ChSC68LcS2vdC_jW

The repatriation followed a wave of anti-immigration protests in recent weeks, with campaigners demanding tighter controls on what they described as undocumented migrants, and accusing foreigners of contributing to crime and unemployment.

The protests have been accompanied by instances of violence against migrants from other sub-Saharan African countries.

One Ghanaian preparing to leave said repeated harassment had driven the decision. "I'm happy that I'm going to my country ... it's not ‌easy ⁠to be in someone else's country and be disturbed all the time," he said, declining to give his name.

Migrant rights groups say they are being scapegoated by South Africans who blame them for the country's economic problems, namely high unemployment which hovers at over 30% and disproportionately affects the black population.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3k54F9X8hg?si=iEFCE_-hFysloKu7

Ghana's High ⁠Commissioner to South Africa, Benjamin Quashie, said the departures were part of efforts to ease tensions while preserving strong diplomatic ties between the two countries.

"The demonstrators have said they want us to work together. We ⁠must ensure that those who are undocumented are returned home and that institutions are allowed to function," Quashie said, dismissing speculation of a diplomatic rift with South Africa.

SA social media reactions

Ghana, stay strong.

You would overcome.

Watch them still play victim..

Meanwhile, there are millions of illegal immigrants and foreigners in Nigeria and the govt are not doing anything about it

Ghana must Go

Abi na

Go must Ghana I go call am

Go and build your own country.

IronGalaxy:
Watch them still play victim..

And Ghana was chasing away Nigerians.

😂 I can’t laugh enough. This shit has got to stop

Charlie.pls go home. No place like home

I am for the deportation of illegal immigrants. South Africa has every right and reason to rid its nation of illegal immigrants, and it ain't xenophobic to support this. 😒😒

All of you illegals should leave SA, you are taking their jobs and making house rents go higher

aestake:
And Ghana was chasing away Nigerians.

Nigerians also chased Ghanians away at one point in time. 😒

Everybody na Nigeria
Even Zim na Nigeria

Hey Mr sada africows stop posting ur south Africa news here, we don't care dis is not southaland, or better still go post it to ghanaland,u just trying by all means to justify ur xenophobic nonsense against fellow Africans, Nigeria is to accommodative can ur fellow south African allowed d freedom of Nigeria to be posting in south African platform with d way u are even doing here,I don't even know maybe u are bribing d mod, because I can't even comprehend

10 out of 300 is legally in SA,that is about 3.33%,that is too small, the south African have a point then.It is just that their method of addressing the illegal immigration is wrong.

Kobojunkie:
Nigerians also chased Ghanians away at one point in time. 😒

Ghanaians always behave as if they have all they need. Na we dey give them gas o.

Agugbadin:
10 out of 300 is legally in SA,that is about 3.33%,that is too small, the south African have a point then.It is just that their method of addressing the illegal immigration is wrong.

If a short man no act like a mad man, dem no dey show am him papa land boundaries. Let every country build up.

Goo0dHardDick:
Meanwhile, there are millions of illegal immigrants and foreigners in Nigeria and the govt are not doing anything about it

You are right but sincerely that is not our priority as a country.

South Africa are just very stew-pid blaming migrant for their economy woes just have a good thinking about it in a real sense but when xenophobism deep-rooted in their genes and at a point in the future they will pay dearly for it then no one will come to their help.

aestake:
➜ Ghanaians always behave as if they have all they need. Na we dey give them gas o.

They have a right to do that in their country. Isn't it pretty much the same things Nigerians do in Nigeria? 🥱🥱

Chucks13:
➜You are right but sincerely that is not our priority as country.
South Africa are just very stew-pid blaming migrant for their economy woes just have a good thinking about it in a real sense but when xenophobism deep-rooted in their gene and at a point in the future they will pay dearly for it then no one will come to their help.

Stewpid or not, it is their country, and they have a right to want non-citizens out of their space. 🥱

Just 10 found to be legal

South Africans are fools for thinking this way.
Imagine a French man telling and English or Irish man to go back to his country. They absolutely live freely over there in Europe.
Its so free that you can spend your morning in France, afternoon in spain, Night in Germany, without any disturbance long as your European.
Meanwhile its the opposite here in Africa.
Sincerely this South Africans will pay for all this nonsense once the whites break out of their shithole country.

Prince1759:
➜South Africans are fools for thinking this way.
Imagine a French man telling and English or Irish man to go back to his country. They absolutely live freely over there in Europe.
Its so free that you can spend your morning in France, afternoon in spain, Night in Germany, without any disturbance long as your European.
Meanwhile its the opposite here in Africa.
Sincerely this South Africans will pay for all this nonsense once the whites break out of their shithole country.

Illegal immigration is wrong, no matter where on this planet it takes place. 🥱

Look at Nigeria today! We were told for many years that these terrorists were mostly illegal immigrants who entered our country to terrorize the people. Now, Nigeria has become the main battleground for jihadists, many of them illegal immigrants who come to fight and get paid by politicians and other nefarious characters. Are you seriously telling me Nigeria is in a better place for refusing to demand the terrorists be removed? 🥱

Lessons learnt... We will build our country.

Kobojunkie:
Illegal immigration is wrong, no matter where on this planet it takes place. 🥱

Look at Nigeria today! We were told for many years that these terrorists were mostly illegal immigrants who entered our country to terrorize the people. Now, Nigeria has become the main battleground for jihadists, many of them illegal immigrants who come to fight and get paid by politicians and other nefarious characters. Are you seriously telling me Nigeria is in a better place for refusing to demand the terrorists be removed? 🥱

Maybe they should resolve the AU ...cos it's useless...The EU ...makes sure that all Europeans can move freely within Europe...the AU is just useless

Murketeer:
➜Maybe they should resolve the AU ...cos it's useless...The EU ...makes sure that all Europeans can move freely within Europe...the AU is just useless

. Free migration within the AU has not been implemented at this point. So, it is wrong to assume you can freely walk into any country as you like. 😒

Goo0dHardDick:
Meanwhile, there are millions of illegal immigrants and foreigners in Nigeria and the govt are not doing anything about it

Corruption is the difference in Nigeria.

Sigh... Wetin una dey kee unaself to enter South Africa for?!!

Their colonial masters' generation don taya sef, and wan form their own separate nation.

Kobojunkie:
They have a right to do that in their country. Isn't it pretty much the same things Nigerians do in Nigeria? 🥱🥱

Every crime is committed by Nigerians. 10 out of 300 living illegally in SA.