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Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by mmb(op): 5:21pm On Sep 08, 2019
According to official South African statistics, as of 2011, 2.2 million foreigners live in South Africa.

Source: UN

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_South_Africa

Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by Robisky001(m): 6:32pm On Sep 08, 2019
So why are they mostly targeting Nigerians only? Nigerians must be a special breed from the rest.
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by StillX10(m): 8:25pm On Sep 08, 2019
This statistics shows that South Africans only envy Nigerians
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by iluvdonjazzy: 10:50pm On Sep 08, 2019
they have be envying Nigeria since time immemorial. don't worry I will deal with them.

Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by valentineuwakwe(m): 12:29am On Sep 09, 2019
so we are not even the majority yet we are being targeted. ....at times I wonder why we are so much hated across the globe..May God help Nigeria!
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by Flyingngel(m): 6:51am On Sep 09, 2019
See where bad leadership back home have landed us.
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by helinues: 6:55am On Sep 09, 2019
Least foreigners but contributed most headaches.

Hian!
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by Nobody: 7:14am On Sep 09, 2019
20th on the list, yet we are their prime target?

They envy us, simple

Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by Smithkafors(m):
helinues:
Least foreigners but contributed most headaches.

Hian!
How are they contributing the most headache? are Nigerians the only people that carry drugs,most if not every country has people that are into drugs.Did you not watch documentary where they should shops owned by Nigerians being looted nd burnt?.
For me,the primary reason for this is envy because Nigerians are very aggressive when it comes to business because they have families to send back money.

N.B. Other foreigners are well into crimes compared to nigerians.The only reason why crime in Nigeria is pronounced is because of our media,crime sells their newspapers.Another reason is because of tribalism everyone wanting to pull each other down thereby making it pronounced.Are Nigerians into crime more than Mexicans and Brazilians?
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by helinues: 7:17am On Sep 09, 2019
Smithkafors:
How are they contributing the most headache? is Nigerians the only people that carry drugs,most if not every country has people that are into drugs.Did you not watch documentary where they should shops owned by Nigerians being looted nd burnt?.
For me,the primary reason for this is envy because Nigerians are very aggressive when it comes to business because they have families to send back money.
What's the population of Nigerians that are into online scams that they always make headlines?
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by Nobody: 8:27am On Sep 09, 2019
Its obvious they are only after the black coloured countries...
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by mbahdi(m): 9:03am On Sep 09, 2019
We
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by livebyday(m):
This is not surprising, I intentionally don't comment much on this incident due to the general level of reasoning I see on this forum

Nigerians are the minority in terms of foreign immigrant population in SA for crimes.

A poster asked above why we are in the headlines and it surprises me! is it that the person doesn't understand the concept of envy?

The regular young man in Mzanzi is lazy, gives into the cull of hard drugs, derives pleasure in.raping under aged High school girls and when his wife returns home from work tired and exhausted then confronts him with the information the neighbors gave her that he brought a teenager into their home while she was at work he proceeds to beat her up.

Now then moves in the Nigerian trader who came armed.with determination to hustle hard and repay the money used to send him there, he has no time for trivialities but Hawks his gala and coke on the streets there..

Mind you mzanzi youth see such jobs as far below them, they believe they have earned the right to a good life for their parents suffering apartheid... They have a serious entitlement complex

But they watch the Nigerian hustle everyday leaving his house at 6am to catch the early morning train out to sell gala and coke in CBD joburg to workers

After six months same nigerian trader rents a shop and starts selling medicines in a chemist and he is getting more money the typical mzanzi young man is infuriated and upset as his wife he beats up regularly is comparing him to the Nigerian ..and this annoys him!

To cut a long story short the Nigerians hustle spirit holds a mirror up to the SA youth faces and they don't like what they see, hence they resort to the age old primial instinct which says what they don't understand they fear and how do weaklings respond to fear ? They mob attack and inflict bodily harm

Nigerians aren't a major concern for crime in SA as they are just loud and more determined hustlers

The typical Mzanzi youth is local , uninspired and a masochist

Cheers
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by bonnyhope: 9:06am On Sep 09, 2019
StillX10:
This statistics shows that South Africans only envy Nigerians
bros, they are descending on other nationals too
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by ntyce(m): 9:06am On Sep 09, 2019
That statistics isn't entirely true, the population big Nigerians is far higher....
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by omoadeleye(m): 9:06am On Sep 09, 2019
Less illegal migrants
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by ednut1(m): 9:06am On Sep 09, 2019
Documented. Undocumented go pass 100k
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by naijadrivablog:
Ask Nigeria of the number of foreigners in Nigeria, they dont have. They will just project figures and publish.

NPC, NIS, and NBS sefangry
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by Earthquake1: 9:06am On Sep 09, 2019
Robisky001:
So why are they mostly targeting Nigerians only? Nigerians must be a special breed from the rest.
2017,That number has tripled since Buhari came to power
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by PureGoldh(m): 9:06am On Sep 09, 2019
Chai...Na Zimbabweans and Mozambicans get that country oooh.

But why are South Africans majorly complaining about Nigerians?... Did we eat their yam porridge like Esau did in the Bible..

Well, no matter what... We gOnna survive..

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Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by Nobody: 9:06am On Sep 09, 2019
Even UK on high side...

I now agree that apartheid regime has really dealt a big blow to SA.

There brain and thinking has been seriously worked upon...


Why shouting Nigeria up and down..
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by sammyj: 9:07am On Sep 09, 2019
grin grin South Africans are mumu. grin grin Does the OP think they have ever checked this stats shocked shocked shocked
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by JimohMomoh:
Esseite:
Its obvious they are only after the black coloured countries...
You have said it all, most guys that comments on top are either ignorant of what is really happening on ground or choosed to be sentimental.
Zimbabwe and other southern african countries are the most persecuted in SouthAfrica.
Nigerians are popular there because of flamboyant lifestyle of some of them and many do drugs too. Some even do drugs and still own legit businesses to cover up.

Just like Nigerians, there are lot of Zimbabweans in jails too. The Zimbabweans even do drugs more than Nigerians.

The whites in SouthAfrica came during colonial rule and due to tourism, they forsee these voilence so they mostly live together in planned highbrow areas, segregating themselves from blacks. They hardly live in slumps and legitimately move around with guns.
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by MANNABBQGRILLS: 9:08am On Sep 09, 2019
Massive
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by BBM: 9:08am On Sep 09, 2019
Wow God is indeed Great

Even the once that are from a better country still migrated to SA
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by RexTramadol1: 9:08am On Sep 09, 2019
We will bring back our 27k people
Re: Total Number Of Foreigners In South Africa As At 2017- United Nations by kamez(m): 9:08am On Sep 09, 2019
South Africans are mad.... with the way they rant about Nigerians stealing their jobs and women, u will think they have over 3million Nigerians living in South Africa....


only 27k Nigerians causing u guys so much nightmare...

ndi ara.....looking for whom to blame for their laziness and inability to hustle
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