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Somalis chose to stay in South Africa despite anti-migrant threats

Somali refugees and migrants in South Africa say they have no plans to return home despite the anti-migrant threats. The Somali community in Johannesburg's Mayfair suburb insist they are still safer i

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who caused this?🤔
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Why isn't fake news calling the South Africans racists?
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😢😢😢
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😢😢😢Madiba's message@Moonshines Fromsun😢😢😢
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Somalia pple are hardworking pple, their only problem is political instability in their country which from one it may seem their problem but it's international coz every powerful country in da world needs a portion of Somalia and all invest in their instability to a point they want partition their country ...
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The irony that African American woke are censuring news from South Africa and Sudan. They refuse to see that Black Africans are oppressing other Black Africans and are committing horrific acts against them.
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Somalia must leave South Africa, we don't care about is happening in Somalia, it's their country they must fix it.
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Even a broken clock.
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@lamB4you From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 3
Firstly, let me clarify who l am. I am Afrikan, Black, comfortable all my life, non-South African… but love South Africa (as l did some of my tertiary education there). Never been “illegal” ever.

However, l just have to add my opinions on the matter. I might be wrong, but I willl offer them anyway.

I have taken this same position of, pushing for easier documentation of foreign nationals and adding a tax on top of what locals pay for the privilege to access employment within SA. But that take has changed of late.

I cannot ignore that there is a populist moment happening in South Africa. And what this moment in particular is asking, is for the deportation of primarily Black undocumented Afrikans. I have come to a conclusion that the voice of these South Africans is popular enough that everyone else MUST HEED AND COMPLY. GRANT THEM THEIR SEXIT THAT THEY ARE DEMANDING.

I also would personally go further than that and push for ALL (documented and non-documented) Afrikans to leave South Africa. Why? Because South Africans (the louder majority) are stating to us, that their system is broken (they have accused a number of documented Afrikans of having bribed their way in. So we need a
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@tofu1898 From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 6
how do south Africans differentiate African immigrants from natives? dialect ?
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Illegal immigration is a crime.
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Somalians want to live everywhere except Somalia
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Instead of fleeing to other countries for a better life, how about making life better where you live?? 🤔
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This is all siad barres fault, and we also have a identity crisis nd ow this
We somalis used to be africas best country, until siad barres son because leader and he woke up after coma, it was chaos. In the civil war we somalis decided to leave, we fled to uk, uae, Pakistan, indonesia, india, sweden, usa, kenya, south africa and many more countries. We have been treated with racism in most of the western countries we fled to, here starts the identity crisis in 1974 whole siad barre was our leader the arabs wanted us to have arab as our first language and become arab, he said no, that was one of the best things he had done, yet people say we are in the arab league, when we declined we said we were african, in 2019/20 during covid 76 out of 7k somalis in minnesota made fraud, before that they called us black, the black people treated us with racism til now, since south africa was one of the countries somalis went to we were treated with xenophobia and we have the right to stop calling ourselves black.

We are somalis and all humans has the same worthy!
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Waar kanni -adagaa Soomaalidu. Lacagta ayey ka jecel yihiin Naftooda...😢. Nolosha ayey idinku gubi doonaan...😢
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Failed 🇸🇴 never fixes its problems, but works on destabilisation of any country it can reach from Ethiopia, Somaliland, Kenya, Yaman to others in ME even EU.
Using diplomatic passports Somalia government revenue is from terror.ism, piracy and smuggling people from Moqdishu excessively for decades. For example:
*Somalia President always takes tens of Hawiye relatives to western countries as side hassle as Hassan Sheekh once took 45 cousins to Sweden with diplomatic passports then 8 returned as others applied refugees.
Murderers, criminal and rapist avoid revenge/punishment by paying any travelling diplomats/officials to take them as body guards/security then make their way out from Moqdishu.
*A Somali Minister took his 2 wives and group of other relatives to Turkey then all crossed EU to seek asylum
*23 parliament members applied for Italian legislative training visa with families then all crossed to other EU countries for asylum.
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Crazy how the Nigerians and Somalis are the ones refusing to leave when they are the groups responsible for this anti-immigrant sentiment
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Somalis would never let trillions of migrants into their country. But they feel entitled to other people's countries.
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Imagine hating a system and going for migrants for making you poor in your own country. Xenophobia in broad daylight
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The Somalians aren't going anywhere by the way 😂😂😂😂