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South African factory workers, mostly women, protested in the streets demanding the return of dismissed foreign employees, warning that factories risk closure without their skilled labour in areas like machining.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVTxnVR9wCs

“We want the foreigners to come back now!”

— Factory workers in South Africa have taken to the streets to protest the dismissal of foreign workers, warning that the move could disrupt production and put jobs at risk. They argue that many industries rely heavily on skilled foreign labour, with insufficient local workers available to fill the gap.

🇿🇦 “We want the foreigners to come back now!”

— Factory workers in South Africa have taken to the streets to protest the dismissal of foreign workers, warning that the move could disrupt production and put jobs at risk. They argue that many industries rely heavily on skilled… pic.twitter.com/NuOokq39ol

— THE STATE NEWS (@THESTATENEWSS) June 13, 2026

Confused lots.
They should man the factories by themselves.

Goldberg Goldberg Gobeck

We are telling them they are just so confused

Those foreigners will leave by June 30th. You guys can now take In charge of your country

Hahaha, I watched one SA guy questioning the basic daily products, how many South Africans are running the business, even ordinary eggs production is dominated by the foreigners

When the Foreigners leave, may be they can be eating each others

Yep that is what xenophobia causes.

No immigrants to do the dirty and dangerous jobs.

Same issue in Europe and America.

Still does not make illegal immigration right. If you want to migrate do it legally

Confused people for real. You can't exist in isolation. SA lazy guys are the one championing this xenophobic campaign

They will succeed in dragging their country back 50 years, just watch.
Every developing country in the world needs foreign workers but the fools in Southern Africa are looting people's goods in the name of identities.

Tell your lazy southern African men to gear up and take charge of your labour force..there's nothing that could make me travel to South Africa because naturally any country that their men are lazy and roaming the streets aimlessly is a dangerous place for foreigners...a jobless man is a danger to himself and society..this is our humanity...is not really hate but envy and greed is pushing the southern African men into all this rubbish...u see foreigners living large in your country..u couldn't see the hard work, sleepless nights and all sort he endured to reach the level of success you are now envious about...I saw such men in Gambia and I ran away from that country...

This is the beginning of there ending ...
All i can say is no xenophobic

Dismissed foreign workers?? So they just started firing any one who’s not south African from their place of work?

Like I said before...when all africans have exited, you black south africans will turn on each other las las...no be persin go tell una.

By the time "white South africans" finish with you "black South Africans" ehn...you will wish you had the support of Africa again.

Una neva see anything.

nlfpmod:
South African factory workers, mostly women, protested in the streets demanding the return of dismissed foreign employees, warning that factories risk closure without their skilled labour in areas like machining.

Notice zero source in the report. Nairaland posting fake news once again.

ZUBY77:
They will succeed in dragging their county back 50 years, just watch.
Every developing country in the world needs foreign workers but the fools in Southern Africa are looting people's goods in the name of identities.

Point of correction, it is called SAD and STALE SAD AFRICA ooooooooooooooo mucheche Hahaha 😂

Mark my words, South Africa is gone!

Most of the factories would shut down. South African men are the laziest in the world.

Their mind no go ever touch ground..

Una fadaaaaa
I mean the fada wey fada una fadaaaaaa
That thing wey una dey find
Una go see am in surplus.
No country can run alone in the world without the input of others

It never even reach one month yet...



Bunch of confused people!

When will enough Nigerians protest that we want PDP back to give us prosperity, peace and stability with cheap petrol and low debt burden?

What are we waiting for, to end this All Promises Cancelled, APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege that Tinubu fraudulently sold as positive change 11 years ago? That was when he went to Kaduna and begged Buhari out of retirement, to make Jonathan a one term president.

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I don't even know what will make me leave Nigeria only to go and be living in another African country. I don't understand

They want the foreigners to go so they can unionize and frustrate the local industries and dictate terms that suit their lazy selves while running factories aground. Only to come back, cap in hand with useless apologies and begging and some mumu people will now say “we’re big brothers. Let’s forgive and forget”. 2030 no far na. We go see the end result.

I don't understand... tell me.

Factory workers protesting the dismissal of foreign workers that management/ownership did to cripple their own factories.

Do the workers love their jobs more than the owners love their business or is someone trying to pull the wool over my head here.

Are these guys confused or what exactly is their problem?

One minute you want foreigners gone, next minutes you want them back? Why are you guys toiling with people's emotions?

They have not seen anything yet...

nairalanda1:
Yep that is what xenophobia causes.

No immigrants to do the dirty and dangerous jobs.

Same issue in Europe and America.

Still does not make illegal immigration right. If you want to migrate do it legally

Sometimes just leave out the "buts" from your otherwise valid and informative comments.

You don't always have to court controversy, be the "lone" voice of reason, superior thinking or whatever. After a while it gets boring, predictable and gives off an arrogant standoffish vibe (even if that's not the intent or whom you are-you can't help how people think about you right? But you sure can influence HOW they come to conclusions about your personality).

And I have an idea how you may react to this comment (which may just prove the point I was trying to make).

WatchYourSix:
Dismissed foreign workers?? So they just started firing any one who’s not south African from their place of work?

Again, I don't get it.
Who is doing the firing....the owners of the enterprise knowing that it will cripple the place....or what.

Kingpele:
Tell your lazy southern African men to gear up and take charge of your labour force..there's nothing that could make me travel to South Africa because naturally any country that their men are lazy and roaming the streets aimlessly is a dangerous place for foreigners...a jobless man is a danger to himself and society..this is our humanity...is not really hate but envy and greed is pushing the southern African men into all this rubbish...u see foreigners living large in your country..u couldn't see the hard work, sleepless nights and all sort he endured to reach the level of success you are now envious about...I saw such men in Gambia and I ran away from that country...

I wish I can like this comment 10 times
You deserve a chilled bottle of drink.

More ink to your pen.

WatchYourSix:
Dismissed foreign workers?? So they just started firing any one who’s not south African from their place of work?

Can you dismiss people who are not there because they have been chased away by xenophobic South Africans

Their lazy men are busy drinking umbobothi

The UK will be just like this, make Farage just enter first.

Where's the video? Fake news

Why would the workers protest and not the employers. Sometimes Nigerians fall for anything and everything.

I blame Donald Trump in all of these. He failed to be the President of the world that former American Presidents use to be


Instead of offering White South Africans migration route to USA, why not divide South Africa into two; one part for Black South Africans and the second part for White South Africans.



Once South Africa is divided into White and Black South Africa, then every foreigner can leave Black South Africa country and lets see how far they can go.



This is the only way to solve South Africa Xenophobic crises once and for all.


Elon Musk should come in on this, I will be sending him this idea on x