ANC Secretary General Warns Against Cruelty Toward Immigrants in South Africa, Calls Out Hypocrisy
18:37 02.07.2026 (Updated: 18:44 02.07.2026)
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ANC Secretary General Warns Against Cruelty Toward Immigrants in South Africa, Calls Out Hypocrisy
"We do not condone unlawful immigration, and we do not pretend that the anxieties of our people are not real," Fikile Mbalula said. "But we will not answer hardship with cruelty, and we will not preach order while promoting anarchy."
Key points from the ANC leader:
🟠Mbalula reminded South Africans that many who now speak harshly against immigrants once found shelter in neighboring countries during apartheid.
"To have eaten the bread of African solidarity and now to turn upon the African neighbor is a betrayal of the very struggle that made our freedom possible."
🟠The ANC leader stressed that the government is already taking action to solve the challenge of illegal immigration and thanked security forces for limiting violence.
"We are the children of Nelson Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Winnie Mandela... We are a people imbued with Ubuntu," Mbalula concluded.
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