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If I Leave, 25 South Africans Lose Their Jobs" – Nigerian Businessman Challenges Xenophobia Narrative

A Nigerian businessman in South Africa has sparked fierce debate after refusing to shut down his business amid growing anti-immigrant sentiment, arguing that his company employs more than 25 South Africans.

Speaking defiantly, the entrepreneur questioned why foreign-owned businesses are being targeted despite creating jobs in communities struggling with unemployment. His stance has reignited a controversial conversation: Are immigrants taking opportunities away from locals, or are they helping keep local economies alive?

Supporters argue that businesses should be judged by their contribution to society, not the nationality of their owners. Critics, however, maintain that South Africans should have greater control over economic opportunities in their own country.

The businessman insists that closing his shop would not hurt him alone—it would directly affect dozens of South African workers and their families who depend on the business for income.

As xenophobia debates continue to dominate headlines, his message has become a flashpoint in a larger national argument over jobs, immigration, and economic survival.

One question now echoes across social media: If a foreign entrepreneur is creating employment for South Africans, should nationality still matter?

Let's Discuss About This.

what i found worrisome in all these is how you will ask both who came legally to leave with those who are illegally staying in your country.
And that their "educated illiterate" who wants their government to pay them one million rands yearly.
These guys dey ment.
Despite the whites been only 17 percent of their population, they still own about eighty percent of the land.
No wonder someone said you might still own the land and still be owned on the land.

Anyone familiar with SA will know he's lying. Those mini shops or Nigerians in general don't hire South Africans. They hire their own, Zimbabweans or Malawians cause they can't afford SA labour - we don't work for peanuts.

They'll approach him on June 30 to produce those 25 South African labourers - we'll see then.

LMAO 😂😂😂

Cococandy, come and see this "news."

From the same Nigerian YouTube channel that previously brought us the pro-migrant protesting "working girls" 😭 and those legendary taxi drivers who apparently spend their days missing foreign taxi drivers on South African roads. 😂

Now we've upgraded the script.

Today we have a Nigerian employer operating a slum shop who supposedly employs 25 South Africans. Twenty-five. An achievement that not even a corner Shoprite Usave can claim. 😭😭

But don't worry, there's video evidence. And someone standing there agrees with him. So it must be true.

At this rate, next week's episode will feature a foreign spaza shop employing more people than the entire JSE. 😂😂😂 or maybe a video of SA nurses crying for more foreign patients since hospitals are now a little bit more quiet?

Lionessza6:
LMAO 😂😂😂

From the same Nigerian YouTube channel.
Now we've upgraded the script.
At this rate, next week's episode will feature a foreign spaza shop employing more people than the entire JSE. 😂😂😂 or maybe a video of SA nurses crying for more foreign patients since hospitals are now a little bit more quiet?

Propagandists hard at work, I tell you. Jihadists and bandits news postponed til further notice.

RandDigital:
Propagandists hard at work, I tell you. Jihadists and bandits news postponed til further notice.

I saw a video of those bandits eating a whole human being the other day... but Nigerians are so concerned what South Africans do in South Africa

IronGalaxy:
I saw a video of those bandits eating a whole human being the other day... but Nigerians are so concerned why South Africans do in South African

Clearly 'zenofombia' is more concerning than being eaten alive.

RandDigital:
Anyone familiar with SA will know he's lying. Those mini shops or Nigerians in general don't hire South Africans. They hire their own, Zimbabweans or Malawians cause they can't afford SA labour - we don't work for peanuts.

They'll approach him on June 30 to produce those 25 South African labourers - we'll see then.

Did anyone of there bother to ask him for his documents to verify?
If you don't work for peanuts, tell your government to provide jobs that pays in millions for you or are you telling me that the whites over there pay what the SA labour specified?

RandDigital:
Propagandists hard at work, I tell you. Jihadists and bandits news postponed til further notice.

😂😂😂

Of course they can't trend that.

You want them to spend their days discussing bandits, kidnappings, terrorism and all the other chaos happening in their backyard?

How will they find time to produce the daily South Africa collapse prophecy?

And let's be honest, if they start focusing too much on local news, they might accidentally expose some uncomfortable realities about Nigerian men that are far less flattering than their favourite "South Africa is finished" storyline. 😭

So it's much safer to spend 24 hours a day monitoring South Africa.

Every crime, every protest, every political statement, every taxi argument, every viral video.

At this point some of them know more about South African politics than their own local councillors. 😂

South Africa trends.

The problems at home get postponed until further notice.

IronGalaxy:
I saw a video of those bandits eating a whole human being the other day... but Nigerians are so concerned why South Africans do in South African

Are you daft or what? Why won't be concern about what's happening to Nigerians in your country?

Why do we have ambassador to a country in the first place?

RandDigital:
Clearly 'zenofombia' is more concerning than being eaten alive.

Just take a look at those 3 scallywags above masturbating and gallivanting on a Nigerian site,and still have the effrontery to be insulting us.

Well,I pity nelson Mandela who fought and wasted over 90% of his youthful years on fighting for their emancipation,and our Nigerian govt that deprived our civil servants of their hard earned money just to make donations for the freedom of these present day xenophobic morons

udemzyudex:
Are you daft or what? Why won't be concern about what's happening to Nigerians in your country?

Why do we have ambassador to a country in the first place?

You dont yap about your country's problems enough.. you're too obsessed with South Africa to be doing that

udemzyudex:
If you don't work for peanuts, tell your government to provide jobs that pays in millions for you or are you telling me that the whites over there pay what the SA labour specified?

Even a maid in SA gets paid a living wage. If you're undocumented you have to settle for slave wages. And that means that brother of yours who is hiring undocumented migrants is breaking both SA migration and labour laws.

Sonnobax15:

Just take a look at those 3 scallywags above masturbating and gallivanting on a Nigerian site,and still have the effrontery to be insulting us.

Well,I pity nelson Mandela who fought and wasted over 90% of his youthful years on fighting for their emancipation,and our Nigerian govt that deprived our civil servants of their hard earned money just to make donations for the freedom of these present day xenophobic morons

😭😭😭

We're just enjoying the latest episode of the "South Africa Regrets Everything" channel.

Yesterday it was the protesting "working girls". Today it's the shack shop owner supposedly employing 25 South Africans. 😂

And somehow this has ended with Nelson Mandela, donations, sacrifices and freedom struggle speeches.

Brother, are you here to post about the topic or filing an emotional insurance claim from 1994?

The tears are flowing harder than the donations ever did. 😂

RandDigital:
Anyone familiar with SA will know he's lying. Those mini shops or Nigerians in general don't hire South Africans. They hire their own, Zimbabweans or Malawians cause they can't afford SA labour - we don't work for peanuts.

They'll approach him on June 30 to produce those 25 South African labourers - we'll see then.

He clearly would not be that bold to defy you xenophobic lots if he hasn't been living in your country without legit documents. I thought you would have been sensible enough to ask him to show you the south African workers in that shop when he told you he employed scores of them. But you didn't dispute that. He even went as far as asking you to run the shop for the sake of your brothers and sisters that were working and earning their living there but you shouted no no no due to the fact that you know you are not capable of running what you are trying to destroy. Shame on you.

Bluntguy:
He clearly would not be that bold to defy you xenophobic lots if he hasn't been living in your country without legit documents. He even went as far as asking you to run the shop for the sake of your brothers and sisters that were working and earning their living there but you shouted no no no due to the fact that you know you are not capable of running what you are trying to destroy. Shame on you.

His boldness eminates from his arrogance, not because he's properly documented or following labour laws.

Who told you South Africans can't run spaza shops? Maybe concentrate more in acquiring skills to run supermarkets because since Shoprite left your shelves and malls in Nigeria are laying empty all across the corn-try.

Leave the wild, you said no; animals would make sure of it!

Okay, stay na. Soon dem go put fire for ya business. No come shed crocodile tears ooo.

RandDigital:
Anyone familiar with SA will know he's lying. Those mini shops or Nigerians in general don't hire South Africans. They hire their own, Zimbabweans or Malawians cause they can't afford SA labour - we don't work for peanuts.

They'll approach him on June 30 to produce those 25 South African labourers - we'll see then.

I am to totally in support of whites did to black South Africans.

They saw what we couldn't see, the knew something about this Xenophobic entities of South Africa that the rest of Africa didn't know.

Africa must rise against South Africa, all of them. This lazy people must be Isolated to face the whites alone.

As for me I'd rather go back to my villa and live with animals than go to South Africa.
Nigerians come back home!

Na wa oh. Tinubu really do us bad.

Na dem fakestuffs, yarimo and the agbero chairman suppose Dey engage those xenophobic people.
They are always missing

These SA guys are barbaric.

No let them unalive you!

Better hear word!

Sebi na South Africans go loose jobs, come back to Nigera jare.

SecuritybriefNg:

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as long as you aint there illegally then it is fine

Osiris12:
Na wa oh. Tinubu really do us bad.

Na dem fakestuffs, yarimo and the agbero chairman suppose Dey engage those xenophobic people.
They are always missing

There are many of his tribal kind making it big here!
It's not about Tinubu!

Those guys are very dangerous and quickly prone to violence. Dem no get job before due to their very lazy attitude so they have enough time to plan evil. Can you count on the government to protect you also. Think well, na who dey alife dey think of shop.

I know south Africans, those your workers u are worried about, can even arrange to kpai you, so as to steal from you or take over your business, my brother l know it's not easy, relocate to another country, south Africans are lazy, greedy and envious, I have lived there

Don't close it. By the time they loot it your eyes will clear

RandDigital:
Anyone familiar with SA will know he's lying. Those mini shops or Nigerians in general don't hire South Africans. They hire their own, Zimbabweans or Malawians cause they can't afford SA labour - we don't work for peanuts.

They'll approach him on June 30 to produce those 25 South African labourers - we'll see then.

@Mods. This is a Nigerian forum. I don't know what you are doing here. Kindly go to your SA. Thank you.

Oga sell your things and return home, you don't drag with people who has nothing to loose, the government you are talking about give persage for the criminals