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New foreign worker rules to be announced for South Africa soon: Minister

South Africa's Employment and Labour minister Thulas Nxesi says that his department is currently working on the labour migration policy which will be tabled in cabinet soon.

Speaking at a media briefing this week, Nxesi said the policy will regulate and limit sectors on the number of people employers can hire from other countries especially in sectors that do not require sophisticated skills.

“We have signed binding international agreements and will ensure that our policy does not conflict with those agreements. In short, whatever we do, will be in line with the Constitution,” he said.

Briefing parliament in March, Nxesi said that the policy would primarily deal with low-skilled workers, with government expecting a ‘big debate’ given the tensions around foreigners in the country.

Nxesi said that South African employers deliberately prefer foreign workers as a source of cheap labour, as they are willing to take ‘anything’ for wages.

The minister said that a number of interventions were being considered as part of the policy, but confirmed that his department was considering the introduction of quotas that would specify how many foreign workers could be hired in a given sector.

Based on previous comments by Nxesi, the sectors which are likely to be directed impacted by the labour migration policy include:

1. The hospitality sector
2. Restaurants
3. Security
4. Farming and agriculture

Specific jobs such as restaurant waiters and truck drivers are also likely to come under scrutiny as they have previously been identified by the department as having a high concentration of foreign workers.

This is the only one that caught my eye

mofedamijo:


Okay, Makerere University and Addis Ababa University?

I'm not familiar with this story but maybe they rank overall country systems and not individual universities.

mofedamijo:
That university is ill informed, ecen if they want to leave out Nigeria universities, i believe covenant university should be included.

Secondly, they said only Ghanaian and South African Universities are accepted in Africa.

That shows the University itself doesn't know about Africa. You left out makerere University, the American University, Cairo.

No Ghanaian University ranks in the first 10 Universities in Africa. I believe Egyptian Universities should be on that list.

Egypt is probably classified under the Middle East.

JaceBlaze:


Kinda funny how Africans who migrated to America recently and had the privilege of being granted permanent American citizenship wanna call themselves American but will have a problem with White South Africans (who by the way been here for centuries) calling themselves South Africans.

Didnt mankind originate in Africa anyway?

Maks27:
This is exceptional

The brain behind this project should be awarded

Simple but effective I guess, hw do u think the frogs will know how to use this

IronGalaxy:
For real? LMFAO, they are so hungry to be recognized that is borders on pathetic.

it's all over Twitter

IronGalaxy:
A sore point for many, lol

There's fake news doing the rounds that Nigeria is home to Facebook Africa HQ ;

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selemempe:
yeah we are druglords and you are drug addicts. Perfect blend of misfits
I'd rather be the former though

U mean u a dead druglord? That's what ud rather be? 100s of u are killed in SA every single year without fail , and our govt does absolutely nothing about it, coz killing a Nigerian is like killing a dog in SA. We even killing your diplomats and u can do jack about this is where you'll finish your ranting my man, online and faceless, you're a small boy

selemempe:
if we don't feed you addicts drugs like the big brother we are, who will?
We are only playing our role

U know what we do to u druglords, that's why u so bitter. So your smiley face is not fooling anyone. It's hiding a lot of pain

IronGalaxy:
hes busy massaging Massa's anus. I tell you if there's one trait i hate about Nigerians more than their drug dealing ways it's their white worship

Got u IG

selemempe:
You have not remarkably improved SA and I'm sure you know this.
I'm Suffering? I just bought a bungalow in this estate in Enugu for less than 500k Rands equivalent. It has security, water and electricity. Close to the city centre and I get to pay installmentally for 10 years. Nigeria is not so good but we are not doing as badly as we claim

At the bolded in your post, it should be 'shown' not showed. Learn your verbs or are you a student of University of Shaka Zulu?

We spend close to $100 Billion on public infrastructure each year, that money is building stuff you refuse to admit. Just coz we don't have a city called Abuja doesn't mean our existing ones haven't been expanded and upgraded. You said it yourself SA is a huge country, we not short of land for expansion in our cities. You think like a child my guy, if u don't see a new hyped-up city u refuse to believe there's progress. I blame the hardship in your country for your slow thinking

selemempe:
Sandton was built by whites and Asians excaping the rapid decline of inner city of Johannesburg. It's black population is just 34% made up mainly of nannies and security guards.

Abuja only has two highways... you are high on drugs bro

Oh wow, nannies and security guards can afford Sandton property and make up 34% of the population u so bitter about black South Africans you have nothing good to say about them. In the meantime get your gay tongue out white men's ass my man, it's embarrassing how much credit you giving them.

You should read up on the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) of SA. It's not worth US$130 BILLION for nothing, it's building the country. SA spends $98 BILLION on infrastructure each year, you telling me about Abuja. Please sit down.

selemempe:
show me a non white-built 'village' in south Africa that compares to Abuja

Sandton was a small town 30 years ago today it is the richest square mile in Africa, u telling us bout Abuja , just the number of schools built in SA by ANC is double the value of Abuja ;Dget outta here man, Abuja with less than 2 highways

selemempe:
The idea that you think you made mince meat out of me by saying that white-built South Africa is better than Nigeria is laughable.
It's just like me saying that oil-rich Nigeria is better than war-torn Somalia.
No you didn't make mince meat out of me. Nigeria is a shit hole and we know it better than you. However we are saying that you don't get to troll us because you guys only started ruling yourselves not up to 30 years ago.
At 30 years post independence 1990, we started building Abuja which is the fastest growing African city today. You guys have not improved South Africa...it has slipped behind

Lol, u were showed all the ways blacks have improved SA in other threads but u refuse to let it sink in, instead u spend your time searching for negative stories from SA, that's all u do all day long., U are in denial and angry that S.Africans don't want u squatting in their country keep suffering in Nigeria... 30 years after ur independence the world accepted your progress but u refuse to believe it with SA, or just will not admit it. SUFFER!!!!!

selemempe:
no you have not made up for lost time. I mean your former president openly said that if you pee right after sex with a hiv patient you are not at risk. No wonder you are leading the world in hiv, income inequality and high unemployment. These are facts.
We lead the black race in human resources. Check top black Africans occupying top global positions...a majority are Nigerians...facts only. No wonder your ANC employed Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as an economic adviser

What a dumb statement about our former president because you acknowledged yourself his generation got Bantu education. I'm talking bout the young South Africans who have dribbled you on this thread, made mince meat of u. Can u not see they are superior in thinking than u?
You should Google how Nigeria has the world's highest number of HIV positive newborn babies. Your own stats show your unemployment is now at 33%, the highest in the world. You have highest number of children out of school, higher than India and they have 1 billion people. What are you talking about? u don't know what's happening in your own country, that's how dumb u are.1000X more South Africans have been running this economy before Ngozi came in the scene, and we are still a shining house on the hill that u lot a fleeing to. If u people were as great as you think your country would have been awesome, but it's far far far far from it, a joke actually. Give me a break

selemempe:
I'm not obsessed with south Africa. When you opened a south African thread in a Nigerian forum, who did you think would respond? Zimbabweans?
Besides how much love do you think Nigerians would have for Bantus after series of xenophobia attacks from you?
Well I understand your lack of intelligence. Was it not just in 1994 that majority of you started going to university?

We have by far the best universities in Africa so wee have made up for lost time you guys have farms for varsities & 60% illiteracy rate after 60 years of independence. What are you talking about?

Shaolin0147:
fake news

Too unbelievable Nigeria would buy 2nd-hand vaccines?

TMKsouth:


It's interesting he mentioned Nigeria along with Zim, South Sudan and Uganda. Not exactly great company.

It was intentional

James4bright:


I know AIDS don't freak you out but it freaks Nigerians out. The virus is a norm in SA.

AIDS doesn't freak Nigerians out but everyday there are thousands of threads about South African girls on Nairaland and posts about SA based Nigerians boasting about sleeping with SA girls. So.... (confused... scratching head)

Good for you. It takes a lot to come out to a hateful world. Just look at all the dumb comments before this one. Because you are gay you no longer a good actor to them. They should focus on all the women they've raped in their lifetime and underage schoolgirls they lust over. That's more disgusting.

coolitempa:



You keep fooling yourself that you are black but we know your Afrikaner fingerprints are all over this website. You are nothing but a racist or self hating Black. Malema was a youth leader for the ANC and worked his way to the top, he was a supporter of Zuma but when he realised how corrupt Zuma was, he forced his removal from office.

You will give up this white farms whether you like it or not. The blacks will continue to wipe you off slowly but surely until we have succeeded in sending your ilk back to Holland. They will be no hiding place for racist anymore least of all in africa.

@bolded

You skipped the part where Zuma forced Malema out of the ANC Youth League (thé gravy train like JaceBlaze said). Thats why Malema was forced to create his own party - not as an alternative voice but because he's a career politician and needed to sustain his Gucci-Communist lifestyle. Him ultimately ousting Zuma was due to a personal vendetta.

KLEINBASS:


So Nigeria deserves goodness while it's citizens run all over to be barbarians in other countries. South Africa ans pride in their own and will never go to another country to beg to be treated like humans.

I'm gonna ignore ANTI-SA comments from now on.

ebenezer202l:
[s][/s] Will you shut up.
Dumb fellow.

My guy WON & your's LOST... So,

LaEvilIMiss:


for a minute i thought you were referring to BUHARI

Raydos:
Africa continent sha!!

What now

Karlifate:
How time flies.

Do good, be kind. Nature will find a way to pay you back.

I agree. And it's also 3rd time lucky at a shot at the US presidency.

TossTos:
We now have
President of all American
And African

That is what democracy is all about .

Unlike the one that belongs to nobody

Indeed, the last 4 years were traumatic , and he's gonna inflict more trauma til January when he's forced out of the White House kicking & screaming.

Early this year, during at least three presidential campaign appearances, Biden said he was arrested as he tried to visit Nelson Mandela in prison. As a young senator, Biden had visited South Africa during apartheid - a system of racial segregation which began in the 1940s and ended in the early 1990s. Biden was a vocal campaigner against apartheid.

“This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robbens Island (Cape Town)"

While Biden kept mentioning it during his campaign, this “fact” was something that had never come up before when he spoke about South Africa.

In March 2020, after much backlash over the story, Biden finally came out with the truth. He wasn’t arrested while trying to visit Mandela. He was held up at the airport for refusing to use a whites-only entrance upon his arrival in South Africa. Biden said:

“They would not let me move anywhere. I guess I should’ve said I was detained; I was not able to move forward.”

However, with Biden now set to assume power in the US, South Africa is bracing itself for having a friend and ally in the White House. The Trump administration had failed to warm up to SA and Africa, in general.