Motsoaledi’s video attack on foreigners goes viral
A video of Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi launching a stinging attack on illegal foreign nationals is spreading on the Internet.
A Business Day report says the occasion was his address at an ANC regional conference in the Eastern Cape where the Minister pledged that ‘unlike other coward ANC leaders’, his views on the scourge of undocumented foreign nationals running amok in the country will not be censored.
Motsoaledi said SA is the only sovereign country in the world where it is open season for ‘rascals’ who have committed serious crimes in their countries of birth.
As political boss at the Department of Home Affairs, he said he will end the scourge and institute sting operations to arrest all illegal foreigners, with the focus on those engaged in criminality.
The Minister called on ANC branch members to sponsor a firm position by the governing party on immigration at its national policy conference in June.
Motsoaledi suggested the time for diplomacy is long gone as SA’s ubuntu spirit is being abused by individuals who are pariahs in their own countries.
Motsoaledi added it cannot be that foreign nationals are engaged in all sorts of crimes in SA with impunity while hiding behind the label ‘xenophobic’ when South Africans call them out for their criminal acts.
‘We are the only country that accepts rascals. Even the UN is angry with us that SA has a tendency, because of something called democracy, to accept all the rascals of the world.’
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