₦airaland Forum

Welcome, Guest: Register • Login • With Google • Trending • Recent • New

Stats: 3,344,226 members, 8,510,776 topics. Date: Saturday, 31 October 2026 at 03:51 AM

Toggle theme

160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST - Foreign Affairs (2) - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum › Nairaland General › Politics › Foreign Affairs › 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST (12210 Views)

Poll: Do you believe the announcement of an Igbo King triggered current SA protests?

Yes 29% (69 votes)
No 70% (168 votes)
This poll has ended

1 2 3 Reply (Go Down)

Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by seppuku: 3:04pm On Aug 03
Hemanwel:
Out of more than 500,000 Nigerians in South Africa, only about 1490 have been evacuated or repatriated. That's about just 0.3%. This means more Nigerians are still in South Africa than those who left.
If you ask SOuth Africans they will say there are 3 million nigerians over there.

I doubt there is even that 500,000 number sef.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Ibrahim1985: 3:12pm On Aug 03
RandDigital:
My thoughs exactly. I created a thread where I got emotional when Malawians got onto buses in Durban. I knew it was all the good guys. The criminals will never voluntarily hand themselves in for repatriation.

Only 2000 Nigerians were repatriated BTW, out of a possible 500,000.
Nigerians do not really go to South Africa. Stop over inflating the numbers, if you said that there are over 500000 Nigerians in the UK , i will believe you. Stop confusing Zimbabweans and other Africans National as Nigerians.

Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by RandDigital(op): 3:27pm On Aug 03
Ibrahim1985:
Nigerians do not really go to South Africa. Stop over inflating the numbers, if you said that there are over 500000 Nigerians in the UK , i will believe you. Stop confusing Zimbabweans and other Africans National as Nigerians.
There are registered 30k Nigerians in SA, only 2k went back home. But we know there are 500K to 1 MILLION!

How dare Abuja have loud mouth for just 3 flights?

Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Sonnobax15(m): 3:34pm On Aug 03
Samantha125:
I've heard how crime rate in Zimbabwe has now increased ever since their people returned from SA... grin grin grin... And before anyone comes for me, I heard this from Zim residents.
Shame on you Samantha angry. I'm surprised at how you find this amusing angry. So disappointed in you cuz I thought you were more enlightened than most of your folks down there in SA.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by RandDigital(op): 3:37pm On Aug 03
Samantha125:
I've heard how crime rate in Zimbabwe has now increased ever since their people returned from SA... grin grin grin... And before anyone comes for me, I heard this from Zim residents.
Botswana too.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Samantha125(f): 3:37pm On Aug 03
Already you're always disappointed in everything I say on this forum... grin grin grin... So there's nothing new here.
Sonnobax15:
Shame on you Samantha angry. I'm surprised at how you find this amusing angry. So disappointed in you cuz I thought you were more enlightened than most of your folks down there in SA.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Sonnobax15(m): 3:42pm On Aug 03
Samantha125:
Already you're always disappointed in everything I say on this forum... grin grin grin... So there's nothing new here.
. Nahh . I used to like you,not until I learned how you choose to stand in support of what your fellow SA are doing to your fellow blacks angry. I'm really disappointed in you my dear Samantha angry
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Samantha125(f): 3:50pm On Aug 03
They should go ahead and enjoy their African unity with their fellow Africans... grin grin grin
RandDigital:
Botswana too.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Bernadette9: 3:51pm On Aug 03
RandDigital:
South Africans are the most successful blacks in the world after US.

Everything else is fake news! 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆🏆
How many USD billionaires are black south african? Probably zero or maybe one.
This shows that white South Africans are the boss and they control what happens in the lives of black south africans.
If you really think black south africans are smart, can you mention some of the global brands that was started by a black south african.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by safetyboot: 3:56pm On Aug 03
Igbo King or Eze Igbo is a title for Igbo Communities in diaspora or outside Igbo land. Stop taunting the Igbos.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Samantha125(f): 3:56pm On Aug 03
Story for the Gods.
Sonnobax15:
. Nahh . I used to like you,not until I learned how you choose to stand in support of what your fellow SA are doing to your fellow blacks angry. I'm really disappointed in you my dear Samantha angry
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Chaolin: 4:02pm On Aug 03
Ezeama400:
They are very useless and lazy..

Always complaining about everything, before it was whites they blamed for their woes, today it’s their fellow Africans..
Useless and lazy right...
Yet your compatriots are running to them for greener pasture, are you not thinking before insulting

What your Nigeria did way back to Ghana are meted back to them
Know this and know peace
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by TEYA: 4:17pm On Aug 03
nairalanda1:
The whites were actually running a fake life economy

First they were sharing the money to themselves and using it to live a fake life developed country. Second they denied the black majority well funded education, especially vocational and technical education, which meant that industry was badly affected, and meant that at the end of the day, South Africa was unable to take advantage of its large population to be an proper industrial power.

The whites laid the foundation for today's mess of their economy. Had there been investment in education and in industrialization at a faster rate, SA would have been an industrialized first world nation ages ago.

See why racisim is evil and bad for any nation?
You still blaming the whites? Lol Where will South Africa be without the whites?
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by ElevationD: 4:18pm On Aug 03
BRAINBOX482:
South Africans with their Xenophobic tendencies. We will see how far they can go alone
When you migrate from your country to another, it presupposes that you are in search of better living. You migrate to that country because you believe that living conditions there are miles ahead of what you leave in your country.

You must not ruin that country.
For example. You cannot leave your sharia practicing country a Christian country and force sharia on your hosts.
You must be civil all the time.
You must not run foul of the law.
You must not commit crimes, whether simple or violent.
If you are evicted, do not turn around and shout xenophobia or Islamphobia.

Return to your country. Fix your country. Make it better than other countries. Baje your country habitable for yourself and family.

Simple rules. Do not blame South Africans. Do not blame Americans or Europeans. Blame yourself. If you are unhappy, relocate to North Korea, Cambodia or Vietnam, where you can fafo.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by nairalanda1(m): 4:30pm On Aug 03
TEYA:
You still blaming the whites? Lol Where will South Africa be without the whites?
Yes, because they did not run an industrial and productive economy nor did they do things like invest in education for black people. Instead they brought in bantu education which produced a massive underclass of unskilled black workers...the same people who are driving out illegal immigrants, because the immigrants are competing with them for the same menial jobs, and by extension driving down their own wages.

The problem with white minority rule was that it was like Nigeria. Government was sharing the money, only disproprotionately to the whites, meaning that they could live like they were in a developed country, while the black majority struggled with poverty, and an education system that was designed to keep them down permanently.

And that created the mess that is driving the xenophobic attacks


Of course, ANC government gets part of the blame too. Yes, they have increased funding for education, but they also run the same sharing money government that the whites ran, with the same results.

You want a developed nation,? Develop a mass of skilled workers, make the country attractive to investors to set up manufacturing there, stop sharing money government, fight corruption, and you get a working industrial nation

Not sharing the money for fake life.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by RandDigital(op): 4:31pm On Aug 03
Bernadette9:
How many USD billionaires are black south african? Probably zero or maybe one.
This shows that white South Africans are the boss and they control what happens in the lives of black south africans.
If you really think black south africans are smart, can you mention some of the global brands that was started by a black south african.
Questionable billionaires? South Africa gained freedom in 1994 and yet has more black dollar millionaires and middle class than Nigeria

You have 5 billionaires and 250 million poor people 🇳🇬😂😂😂😂😂
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by seppuku: 4:40pm On Aug 03
ElevationD:
When you migrate from your country to another, it presupposes that you are in search of better living. You migrate to that country because you believe that living conditions there are miles ahead of what you leave in your country.

You must not ruin that country.
For example. You cannot leave your sharia practicing country a Christian country and force sharia on your hosts.
You must be civil all the time.
You must not run foul of the law.
You must not commit crimes, whether simple or violent.
If you are evicted, do not turn around and shout xenophobia or Islamphobia.

Return to your country. Fix your country. Make it better than other countries. Baje your country habitable for yourself and family.

Simple rules. Do not blame South Africans. Do not blame Americans or Europeans. Blame yourself. If you are unhappy, relocate to North Korea, Cambodia or Vietnam, where you can fafo.
I am not sure anyone here supports immigrants breaking laws or running amok in other people's country.

How is an asylum seeking Somali tuck shop owner breaking the law?
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by AngelicBeing: 4:45pm On Aug 03
JobAndVacancies:
shut up and take your useless propaganda out of this forum.
We don't give a shit about your people.
They are all useless
Gbamsulotey oooooo mucheche grin
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by LordLicifer(m): 5:15pm On Aug 03
Good idea! I support South Africans on this. Let the foreigners go a fix their own countries
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by azyaq(m): 5:26pm On Aug 03
RandDigital:
More than 160,000 foreign nationals left South Africa over June and July following widespread anti-immigrant unrest, according to an AFP tally based on figures from the repatriating governments.

South Africa has seen weeks of nationwide protests against undocumented foreigners.

As anti-migrant groups pressed their demand for immigrants to leave by June 30, citizens of other African countries flocked to consulates and community halls seeking transport home.

The largest numbers to leave were from Zimbabwe and Malawi but hundreds more were from countries including Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria and Uganda.

Releasing updated figures on Tuesday, Zimbabwe's cabinet said 108,366 of its people had come home as of July 18, a majority of them self-repatriating.

Malawi announced on Monday that more than 46,890 citizens had returned since early June, with the government providing 699 buses for the long journey home.

Nearly 2,000 Mozambicans also returned, according to South African government figures.

Some crossed the border with help from their government after two Mozambican nationals were killed at the end of May in the southern town of Mossel Bay. Authorities also confirmed the deaths of an Ethiopian and a Malawian in "anti-foreigner sentiment."

Nigeria has repatriated around 1,490 nationals, while Ghana has flown home at least 926, according to government figures.

South Africa has long been a destination for documented and undocumented African workers searching for work.

Zimbabwe - 108,366
Malawi - 46, 890
Mozambique - 2,000
Nigeria - 1,490
Ghana - 926
I beg Ooo
make una leave them Ooo
we still dey here ooo
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by bluefilm: 6:32pm On Aug 03
That's good

Let them go and build their own countries

I expect more to leave in the coming days
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Ganjafama(m): 7:19pm On Aug 03
njokuuche77:
This mass exodus of over 160,000 people is a painful reminder that there is truly no place like home. Nobody wants to flee to a foreign country just to face hostility and violence, but failing economies force people out.
If our home countries were stable and prosperous, mass migration wouldn't be necessary. It is high time we hold our leaders by the balls and completely accountable. We need to demand real development and job creation at home, or kick them out of office. We must build nations our people don’t feel forced to leave.
You are very funny. Do you see Nigerian politicians like people who can be held by the balls and made to be accountable?
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Bernadette9: 7:22pm On Aug 03
RandDigital:
Questionable billionaires? South Africa gained freedom in 1994 and yet has more black dollar millionaires and middle class than Nigeria

You have 5 billionaires and 250 million poor people 🇳🇬😂😂😂😂😂
I asked you a question, how many black south africans have been able to push a brand they started in south african to a global brand.
They don't have that capacity that's why most of the global brands that originated from south african are owned by white South Africans.
From banking, retail store, tech communications etc all are owned and controlled by white South Africans.
Do you know why? Because they're the only South Africans that have that capacity to do that others are Indians.
Black south african don't have that capacity to hold an economy independently, they'll suffocate their economy within few years.
Off course, we've see how they'll handle their economy.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by njokuuche77(m): 8:25pm On Aug 03
Ganjafama:
You are very funny. Do you see Nigerian politicians like people who can be held by the balls and made to be accountable?
They seem untouchable only because we aren't serious yet. When you look at the numbers, a few thousand politicians cannot overpower over 200 million citizens. Our real enemy isn't just the leaders; it's the tribalism and bigotry we allow to divide us. The day we unite is the day we take our country back.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by RodgersAkpafu: 9:17pm On Aug 03
RandDigital:
South Africans are the most successful blacks in the world after US.

Everything else is fake news! 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆🏆
Okay 👍 👌
grin cheesy cheesy grin
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by ghettochild(m): 9:35pm On Aug 03
The rest of us are leaving next year January.. thats when there will b a large number of foreigners leaving SA..
Now people are trying to sell off their businesses and properties
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by seppuku: 9:55pm On Aug 03
ghettochild:
The rest of us are leaving next year January.. thats when there will b a large number of foreigners leaving SA..
Now people are trying to sell off their businesses and properties
Brother make una comot that country no matter what they tell you. South Africa is going to institute laws that will continue to make it unbearable for immigrants to thrive and succeed because they are moving towards a protectionist, nationalist state.

If you know what is good for your just gradually find your way out and take as much as you put in there out.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Pacesetter123(m): 10:18pm On Aug 03
RandDigital:
My thoughs exactly. I created a thread where I got emotional when Malawians got onto buses in Durban. I knew it was all the good guys. The criminals will never voluntarily hand themselves in for repatriation.

Only 2000 Nigerians were repatriated BTW, out of a possible 500,000.
You people said Nigerians in South Africa are undocumented.
Where did you have the statistics that there are 500,000 Nigerians in Zenophobic Republic?
The yoke is on you.
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by Kukutente23: 6:46am On Aug 04
RandDigital:
There are registered 30k Nigerians in SA, only 2k went back home. But we know there are 500K to 1 MILLION!

How dare Abuja have loud mouth for just 3 flights?
How did you know there are 500k to 1m Nigerians that are undocumented
I hope you know Nigeria does not share a border with you
It is virtually impossible for more than ten times the number of documented migrants to exist in a country you don't share border with
I personally only know 1 Nigerian in south Africa while I know of far higher number in the US, UK and Canada even UAE
So the 500k figure only exists in your xenophobic heads
Nigerians both documented and undocumented (if any) can't be more than 40k in your country
Re: 160,000 Foreigners Left South Africa Since Current Protests - LIST by ElevationD: 7:54am On Aug 04
seppuku:
I am not sure anyone here supports immigrants breaking laws or running amok in other people's country.

How is an asylum seeking Somali tuck shop owner breaking the law?
If some Somalians have not formed the habit of perpetrating crimes, how would the innocent ones be tagged among the criminals? When a certain group of Somalians rob and break into shops, killing and maiming innocent countries in their host countries, how do you not expect the innocent to be tagged among the criminals. The General name is Somalian because Somalians were arrested severally and jailed.

An asylum seeking Somalian breaks the law when he commits crime. He no longer is entitled to his request. He must be deported just like others.

On this platform, read through and you’ll find comments in support of immigrants who break the laws of their host countries.
1 2 3 Reply

Xenophobia: 98 Nigerians Have Died From Mob Actions In South Africa Since 2022 • South African Man Laments Businesses Dying After Foreigners Left (photos/video) • Catalogues Of Military Takeovers Across Africa Since 2020 • 2 • 3 • 4

Protesters Clash In Ghana Over Election Results • More Than 2,000 Pro-Palestinian Protesters Arrested Across US Campuses • Chinese Toddler Dies After Parking Space Row.