The Gauteng provincial government wants to stop foreign nationals from operating some businesses in the townships as part of plans to revitalise the economy in a number of the region’s most densely populated areas.
However, the proposed law will only assist township-based enterprises in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, transport, communications, tourism and services if they are owned by South African citizens or holders of permanent residency status. It can also be obtained by foreign nationals who intend to establish a business in the country and are financially independent, among other criteria.
The government’s contractors will be compelled to spend a certain percentage of their procurement budgets on town-based enterprises, entrepreneurs and co-operatives. He assured foreign nationals that the country was not about to “wake up” and have a massive deportation of Zimbabweans, Mozambicans and Lesotho nationals.
Meanwhile, a march held in Pretoria this week against foreign nationals - targeting specifically Nigerians and Zimbabweans - has been condemned by the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria.
ObieSwag So permanent residency is the criteria for being able to earn a living? Refugees must suffer again?
ObieSwag This is a BONANZA for the Home Affairs officials that are corrupt. Permanent residence is a criteria?
Slowly but surely... Good
Is this African foreign nationals?
The unpatriotic Dept of Home Affairs and corrupt SAPS will make things easy for them.
By Ghana law foreigner have to invest 17 million Rands to open a business and employ at least 5 Ghanaian citizens. In South Africa, by law foreigners must invest only 3 million Rands, which they don't even do and is far less than in Ghana. PutSouthAfricansFirst
How about the owners of malls and all the shops at the mall?
It is high time! This will help eliminate unqualified Hairdresser/salons! Regulation of businesses is extremely important....
Foreigners without PR means, either business permit or work permit for a specific purpose. So, is a person is not issued a permit to do so, would not be doing it anyway. If the immigration law is designed well, country can benefit from foreigners hugely.
Life without abo 'my friend'
Step in the right direction.
Who is a foreigner on African soil? We are all sons and daughters of the soil.
Perfect decision, South Africa it is now your time to reclaim and make a living, open those spaza shops
They must go.
This is just ridiculous. How do you allow uncontrolled illegal immigration and turn around and block same illegal immigrants from supporting themselves? Do they expect them to just vanish through starvation or they will feed them? Poor public policy if it is
It's virtue signaling from the criminal syndicate MYANC they will never enforce it. THE ONLY PARTY WHO WILL ENFORCE IT IS ATMovement_SA PUTSOUTHAFRICANSFIRST JUSTICEFORAMANDALEDWABA
I have never heard any story of a South African that went to any African country to do Business/ Work.. during the dark days of Apartheid. We stayed in our Rural Areas & our parents farmed to feed us!!
Blacks South Africans forget very fast.
Beautiful news
IAM_Sanctified YA.. NEH.. 🤔WHEN MONEY IS THE TOOL OF DESTRUCTION IN THE MIND OF A BLACK MEN🥺🥺🥺IT EVEN COMES TO A POINT OF DENYING ONATHER BLACK MEN THAT?😔😔😔 BUT DO REMEMBER NO MATTER HOW YOU ARE GONNA MAKE THAT MONEY, THAT MONEY IS NEVER GOING TO LEAVE THE EARTH...SO THINK CAREFULLY
Foreigners MUST BE BANNED IN THE COUNTRY from trading and NOT JUST BANNED IN ONE PROVINCE!!! Are there diffrrent laws for every province?
Everything will stop wen blacks are prioritised people worth something by other blacks iam at Gorge mokhari hospital where I have been told that they want to help a white patient first who is behind me
Do I see elections ahead?
That means more money for Home Affairs officials
Good.
Clean the department of the agent that sell paper while you at it
Why Gauteng only? Because of votes
BenjiSeitlhamo Hee batho 🤣🤣🤣
We are fast approaching the local elections, ANC GP fooled people with the removal of E-Tolls to get votes, now they are using a law that has always been there but would never execute. There's nothing new here, they just say the sweet nothings to get votes.
We the poor, will register businesses for them and say they are working for us for a fee. We married them for a fee. We rent out out homes to them. We buy from them.
The horse has bolted..
Silly move from the useless ANC. How will this be regulated? What will stop foreign nationals from buying residency from corrupt home affairs officials? What will happen to those who already had businesses running? Can’t solve a problem by cutting a branch instead of the roots.
It should be all foreigners around the country including wives who are married to this foreigners for the sake of peace
But our corrupt civil servant will sell those documents to foreigners.
In Africa every black guy deserve citizen.but white peoples change our cultures until now we are enemies.😂.how you going to get it back to when you still hate black africa?let work together to get Africa back🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿.life sort ,let love each other 🌍🌍
What about the white foreigners in the city?
Long overdue
What about the Chinese and the Pakistani in malls and shopping centers? Will this law cover them too?
This is another MYANC failure. If these foreigners dont have permenant residency then they are here illegally. They have overstayed their welcome on a tourist visa. The sad thing is EFF agrees they should be allowed to stay because Julius_S_Malema wants to be president of USAf
This is what need to happen all over the country. We can't allow small township economy to be under foreigners plz
That's a brilliant proposal 🙌🏿. Put South Africans first.
It's a lie
Only in South Africa do we break laws for a 100 rand ..
Good, make it quick
The law in its current state does not allow even permanent residents to partake in the informal sector. Employment opportunities are also for locals. Exceptions are where aliens have a scare skill. Foreign bus are required to spend at least 5millions & employ locals.
Good
They are lying, elections are close by. They will never implement that resolution, it's probably unconstitutional too. They are looking for votes and want to pacify Citizens. Makhura failed to resolve the Etolls saga, twice in a row
boy oh boy i cant wait for this sh!t show to start
I see lot of brown envelopes moving around.
PercyZwane_ Home affairs cold drinks money just went up
Atleast we getting somewhere
Home Affairs officials are in business again 😭😭😭my country under MYANC is such a joke.
The only place they should be permanent is their beloved countries where they should fight their leaders to better their countries & economy. Not fight to stay in SA
They will buy those status from corrupt greedy officials
Good move
Thats will just push them into violent crime
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They must just say they want a bribe,how much are they expected to pay for those documents? I want to inform them
Kuyafana HomeAffairsSA will sell them ezo permanent residency, GovernmentZA should send all of themto their homes, SA is unable to handle their own but are busy baqokelela abantu from other countries yho ha.a Ramaphosa uyasifumana shame
Do it seems our local blacks are so lazy that foreign blacks are outperforming them in every business. Sounds a bit like why whites do better in business.
BhekabantuShab2 Too little too late
This law makes townships into mini homelands. Isn't it South African money when we spend it outside the townships?
The ANC in Gauteng has to do this to block Action SA from taking votes with a simplistic policy.
I foresee a boom in the fake residency paper's business. Get in whilst it's hot ppl
All of them, Gauteng foreign Nationals will buy permanent residency status S African Criminals Affairs Officials will get more richer than before
Why Gauteng🙄What abt other provinces.The struggle 4 jobs is evrywhr🤣Foreigners should only hv jobs whr there is a proven skills shortage&I doubt RSA is short of skills. Protect our borders & implement existing emigration laws that the ANC stuffed up😧🤔
permanent residency, which they can easy buy at any HomeAffairsSA across the country
Why not deport them once? Bayancengwa?
The present by laws say foreigners must have 5million to open business who said other laws will work when they fail to implement the ones we have
About time. Taxes have to be paid to reap the benefits of this country.
Voting out ANC is solution, where in the world you'll find this law,
“””in the province’s townships”””? wtf? In the city and the suburbs they can carry on or?
It's mere politicking, elections are close. That would be unconstitutional. These chaps are lying and SAns must not fall for it. Remember before 2019 , Makhura promised to bill Other African countries for healthcare services that they use. Where did that end up? It's a lie
telangtr Ah they're gonna buy those permanent what what from the officials nje then life goes on
So the black market for permanent residency permits are going to expand and thrive.
This law is another death at delivery. There's a more burdensome law which prohibits illegal aliens from occupying SA but the dead ANC and its employees can't enforce it. Illegal aliens are probably laughing as they read this right now.
Why only in gauteng? They must implement it throughout the country because we all contribute towards tax and therefore deserve the same treatment as gauteng communities
Did you know if a foreigner has & R2million or more they can get permanent residence easy peas. So this law is basically targeting low income Africans. But ke migration is a global trend & not going away anytime soon.
To late. Most of them have become citizens. CorruptionMustFall
Trying to fool us going into 2021 elections..We see right through their lies.
Now HomeAffairsSA will sell them permanent residency. Foreigners must go. Corruption HomeAffairsSA must fall.
Significant step in the right direction
All the corrupt home affairs officials salivating knowing that there's money to be made for foreigners to get permanent residency status
And how will they earn an honest living? This isn’t in the interest of consumers nor will it necessarily make way for SA traders! Madness.
Thus giving HomeAffairsSA officials a chance to make money?
Nonsense. Our administrative system is broken. Adding more legislation after failing to enforce existing laws will work how exactly? By what magic will they enforce this when they have fail to enforce existing legislation? Governing is what we do, not what's written on paper.
I'm seeing pple's focus on Spaza shops, Salons, 😂 yet i doubt that bill is targeting these cz they are informal yet those doing agriculture, manufacturing, tourism the bill addresses are businesses township pple know nothing about since they ain't Tarvens & Shisanyama trades 😂
Great. But y'all lying once again
Why they don't just deport them and the problem will be solved! Before, they move to this step, first things First, they must deport them en masse.
The government has been breaking the law and should be held accountable. This is against our constitution! Now they present this as if it is a favour!PutSouthAfricansFirst
The problem is not SA doesn't have laws,the implementation is the problem.People who fail to protect the most important infrastructure like train lines,can you believe that they can deal with this complicated issues
Good move
If you denying them right to make clean money. Because you your jealousy. They will make dirty money. They will get work from somewhere else. P Cyril closed beit bridge borders post Zimbos open several entry points. SANDF manning the borders gets bribes .
sthembete Just waiting to see how the lives of SA citizens in townships will be improved by this....
Then they take bribes from them in order to give them the permanent residence
Not only Gauteng but the whole country
I thought we just wanted tax to be paid and tg business registered so it's regulated...this is unfair.
It's good to come up with these laws but it won't mean a thing if those tasked by law to implement and enforce them are unethical, corruption will see permanent residency dished out like peanuts.
How soon is soon?
Not under ignorant leadership of the ANC unless we if we vote them out
They should have done this long time ago, I hope it is not a campaign for next year's elections
Why does SA fear foreigners so much , why do SAns get silence when they speak against unruly behavior?! Dubai banned all Nigerians because of one notorious Nigerian national criminal and they were never labeled xenophobic.
They come with fake qualifications and fake everything . They should go back home and fix whatever that makes them uncomfortable at home !
CLEAN UP THE CBD !!!!!!
Yall ain't gon implement shit🙄🙄
They are going to obtain permanent residency
After 15 years. They are good in empty promises but they dont implement these promises cause their families are not affected by unemployment and crime
Aaaaand then they'll turn to crime
Have I not seen this movie b4 from the legendary Minister xihanya nomo?..... 'Finance minister Tito Mboweni recently announced that after the Covid-19 lockdown it would be compulsory for spaza shops to have trading permits, bank accounts and be tax compliant blah..blah'
Let's wait and see coz we can't take it anymore...2 week go i decided to open a eatery where i sell food chips and kotas.. these zimbo guy renting a place next door he's running a car wash now he also decided to sell food,chip and kotas! We're fucked as sa'cans🤞
Officials at Home Affairs are about to open their business of selling permanent residency statuses like hot cakes
But white people are able to open shoprite /boxer /pick and pay. David_Makhura you are a shame to your own
A proper Trump move. Well done the ruling party. ✊🏽
Isn't this what everyone wanted? So why the anger and hate? Youre being given an opportunity to take control of the township economy like u wanted, use it 🙄.
Only SA citizens can fix South Africa ANC government is corrupt
Deport all. They are all involved in criminal activities. Zimbos-Cits. Niajas -drugs and human trafficking
Don't allow them to obtain that residence.
If they give them permanent residence we will burn down all their shops.
Then you must bar Vodacom because that is owned by foreigners.
I'm waiting for your sister's who survive through foreign nationals 😜😂😂😂and those door boys working for food I know they going to complain not being aware this is a great move
What can possibly go wrong?
In the townships. Relax your tits🤣 thats not where people sell drugs.... drug dealers will still thrive.
Since when have foreign nationals abided by our rules and laws, they do as they please in this cowntree... VoetsekANC
Local Elections are around the corner that's another futile electioneering platitude VOETSEKANC and I'm appealing not to believe that lie Those crooks hv been lying since 1994 The Late Dr Nelson Mandela was the Liar no:1
G_Manchidi
send thatvlaw to capetown
Then start monitoring bank accounts of home affairs officials. There's going to be a lot of activity in their accounts in the next few months
These criminals will buy the permanent residency status straight from HomeAffairsSA officials
They will buy it from corrupt home affairs
That is the way to go
A step in the right direction, but what about drug dealers too, they're doing business and it seems like nobody is looking into that matter
Long overdue.
Goodbye China Malls!!! I'm joking, this law is strictly for Africans
Townships? When foreign whites are sitting on the mines? What manner of brain do we have as blacks? This is a diversion bcos questions are being asked about the 500 billion pandemic fund. Give the blacks a crumb and they can eat pap. What a life.
And when are they doing such at the mines that is 80% owned by Canadians, Indians and Australians? They just want to throw the crumbs to the half educated blacks in the townships. Let us talk about the mines, can we? Black people are jus not intelligent smh. these are diversions
this is a joke. a big joke indeed. they think we are a joke. the local elections must be close by
Progress atlist, even corporate must be 2nd
Good.
monkey1612 Just say black Africans. Indians, Chinese and other white business pple will be given rights without questions. Thats the African way
Most useless law ever. Which law permits drugs?
Trust me, In less than 5 years, South Africa will be the 'new Zimbabwe'. The path they are taking is a threat to big investors. Wish you all the best!!
Permanent residence should be from 10yrs upwards
National government allows them in then this....I think it's time National government wakes up
They will buy the residency status, its a known fact.
This is cheap politicking
In South Africa
BenjiSeitlhamo Signs we must fix our country of origin sikhumbule ekhaya
But the Randburg & Joburg CBD is ok?
They will bribe someone
Meaning more cold drink for home affairs officials and saps as home affairs will sell paper for thousands of rands and saps for not arresting them they will charge a whole lot yippee 💃💃💃its xmas every day for those officials
Wait it's only becoming law now?
The corrupt will sell this and make even more money. We will have more permanent residents than true South African citizens.
They are going to make babies with slay queens to obtain citizenship
South Africa should enforce the current, existing laws across the country. You can't draft new laws all the time... The corrupt officials in the Home Affairs department must be apprehended, I don't care how Motsoaledi does it. Home Affairs officials should stop taking bribes.
Can DHA not sell them residence status 🤔
Permanent residency is a loophole into our townships. We don't want foreigners in the townships PERIOD!
This should not be limited to Gauteng only
marinavanzyl GautengProvince if you still allow foreigners to own spaza shops in the townships and villages, you are unfortunately not helping SA'ns.
Tseg indaba yalo Cyril ramaphosa... y is letting them permanent? They're foreigners nje. This government likes money nje
So SAs are cry babies and can't compete with foreigners is Spaza shop business 🤣 🤣 🤣... Fronting like BEE will prevail... If they can't implement BEE how will they do it..
This is a beyter way of doing things than killing African brothers with xenophobic violence, Laws should bring sanity and keep small and medium businesses for Locals
Finally positivity new after long time.
You coming right now, it should be all over the country
Would be great if only home affairs was as enthusiastic
Permit for what... Give southafricans permits... What's wrong with the MYANC
If you believe in your ancestors and offer the respects you're required to, you should be deeply fucking ashamed and you'll get what you deserve because of it.
Also Residency must be hard to acquire ...
Also, well done all of you on sounding exactly like white ex-Rhodesians and Steve Hofmeyr fans. I lived my whole life hearing White people talking about Black people this way. This will come back on each one of you in the next life, and on the lives of your children.
Can we start ka bo 'my friend'
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Good. This applies worldwide You can't just go illegally into a country and work there. This is not xenophobia
Fucking evil people telling on themselves in these comments. How can you, after seeing everything the Nationalist government did, still behave like this? The words you're using are the same as Verwoerd, Botha etc did, except replace 'foreigner' with Black. Demons, all of you.
Great we getting somewhere manje🍾🍻
This is a drop in the ocean. Blacks township residents always been marginalized by economic exclusive laws during apartheid. Still to have them only given rights exclusively in townships just nonproductive cause foreigners will be still taking over our cities.
Kanti was this not the law already?
Will soon?
They should have consulted us we know which businesses they should barred from doing
Just because the local government elections are coming next year and then after their cows have voted them it goes back to square one. ANC think we’re their stupids, we are cool with David Makhura and his rotten ANC
Things they say for votes when it's near elections🙄 PutSouthAfricanFirst is giving them ideas. Ladies take care of yo IDs Home Affairs greedy staff wl be hard at work with fake marriages
Not satisfied 1. We need this all over the country 2. They will now work harder to buy permanent residency 3. We need a mass deportations
Ai I don't trust our home affairs department everything has it's price💵📜🏷
For spaza shops🙄😏
MYANC government is such a shame, instead of IMPLEMENTING THE CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS they will spent this term drafting Provincial Immigrantion laws which would be put under the table once drafted as the air would cooled down
GUPTAS BOUT permanent residency status from MALUSI GIGABA HELP BY ZUMA. now who is going to sell.
Who’s gonna enforce this law? The corrupt thugs in blue that are quick to take bribes?
Will be seeing weddings all over townships pretty soon
ALL Foreign Nationals should be barred from participating in the local economy period. FutsekANC VoetsekEFF
Sounds like something Donald Trump would come up with....
Time2Coach Good
We lead they follow
Then start removing all foreigners businesses in our townships ASAP before we shutdown them by ourselves like Katlehong residents did.
Mxm, foreigners means Africans in RSA. Anyway it will not be implemented. So nothing to worry.
One step moving forward, enforcement should be exercised then.
What's the use of laws when enforcers will chase bribes instead of enforcing it.
A cash cow for our police and other officials?
Max_Zwi Does this include white & Chinese people?
We have so many labour laws in our constitution concerning foreigners but without those laws being enforced they become useless...
This is inhumane.
Please tighten conditions and requirements for permanent citizenship!Otherwise this will mean more lucrative business opportunity for those dealing with illicit papers at Home Affairs! An urgent audit of those who hold permanent citizenship is long overdue!
Concourt will simply rule this unconstitutional when hrw challenges it.
Why not nationally why GP only
Who’s dishing permanent residence statuses out?🤣🤣🤣🤣Hai ke!
So long we've been waiting for this legislation 🤔
Ai nx😏
GweezytheTiger homeaffairsZA will sabotage GautengProvince. They will issue everyone with permanent residency status, besides....they're 10 steps ahead.
Then horse wagon
I hope that including the white foreigners...coz the law always target black people
GOOD
Weard, as it is government that opened the borders to the of Africa, now they are not allowed to do business!!!
DimoWaBauba1 This will be used to campaigning for elections, after that it will be abandoned till 2024 electioneering.
They are giving them another opportunity to forge the permanent residency
😂😂😂😂😂 so, they actually want them here permanently?! 😂😂😂😂
It looks like we are getting somewhere
This is pure NONSENSE from SA government, legitimizing what South Africans are against in the first place. Foreigners should be barred from being involved in any economic activities and jobs South Africans can do, PERIOD. They should ONLY be allowed where there's skills shortage.
Dankie Ngiyabonga
The country must implement existing immigration laws and Gauteng isn't special and we don't need that... foreigners must not buy properties, do businesses, work/employ in this country: they must just be foreigners
Permanent residency for what? So we gonna have murderers and criminals who killed people in their countries being given permanent residency?madness! As good as nothing! No foreigner should be allowed to own any small business in SA especially in Black Dominated places!sies mann
HermanMashaba modimo_ngwana GovernmentZA ParliamentofRSA kzngov eThekwiniM David_Makhura HomeAffairsSA SAPoliceService whats a victory ,Kzn should follow.Then start raiding the complex,flats they living in,they will soon marry weak SA gold diggers.
Why townships? Is the city reserved for undocumented foreigners? This government is so stupid.
This also must applied to all provinces
This must apply in all the provinces in South Africa. Gauteng is not an independent province.
There is going to be a tender to make all foreigners permanent resident
It is axactly that, just a law.
Our Home Affairs officials will simply ask for huge bribes to give them the paperwork they need. Our problem is not foreigners, it is lack of good governance and law enforcement
Someone at HomeAffairs willing to risk it all for R1000. What joke.
I didn't knew there's a country called Gauteng.
So now you are going to give them permanent residency yet they are not providing scarce skills. They must leave.
mthosovilakazi New law was supposed to banned home affairs forms issuing our ID to foreigners unless back ground check from two state where the person come from. Any criminal records and financial records. We know troubling national. PutSouthAfricansFirst
I'm I'm willing to give a local woman one of my businesses in the city to run it for 2 months
Informal business must be reserved for South Africans only! PutSouthAfricanFirst PutSouthAfricanFirst
bzukuzuku there it is chief...
They were never allowed from the first place, our law enforcement agencies are allowing to. who is going to enforce those new laws because our law enforcement agencies are corrupt?
they'll buy it, stupid law
Izwe_Lethu_2020 Now that's the way SA must head through all provinces, it seems like the old people in Parliament are finally hearing our cries. PutSouthAfricanFirst
More opportunities for corruption, Businesses will be registered By south Africans and will be run by foreign national, this policy is in place in Saudi Arabia and it has done nothing but encouraged exploitation of foreign national who want to do business.
Why LIE Pemier David_Makhura?
Good move by Gauteng but many foreigners who are dominating the informal sector have already obtained permanent residency status fraudulently.
Lerato_Pillay it seems like we are getting close on winning this war
esselen street at Sunnyside kungashaya umoya
Because majority of foreign nationals are currently living here legally and doing legal things 🙄
That must include all this Asian guys who bought citizenship
What started as a twitter movement.. my oh my... welldone patriots.
Long overdue.
Great start, but the law will be useless if it's not enforced like the existing ones.
That's the way to go, nationally but ke since ANC is after the money... Most foreigners are willing to pay for almost anything you can think of.
This law won't even pass constitutional master. If it gets implied Foreigners will take it to court to overturn it. It's unconstitutional. They are doing this to campaign for votes. They know if they are serious about this they will have to amend the constitution
Dat willmean more permanent residencies will b issued by corrupt HomeAffairsSA officials
Very interesting that this is a privilege(the permanent residence status) that those foreign governments would never ever afford any South African. Among the world countries that give permanent residency easily, non of the African countries is on the list, except dumbass SA.
Tsona31433828 The ANC is worried now they don't want to let go of Gauteng. Election ploy youth is tired of empty promise's by pensioners.
Good start implementing it might be tough as they are still studying this and they will take you to court for economic exclusion of other human beings
What part of “Only South Africans must trade in the township” is hard to understand for this ANC government? We’re tired of fighting for crumbs with these aliens
With the state of our Home Affairs, they’ll all obtain permanent residency, back to square one!
Khoza_lyhle They will bribe the person checking those permits! Pliz
A foreigner is a foreigner, stop dishing out citizenship just to make outsiders enjoy benefits meant for South Africans. Foreigners should never get permanent residency or citizenship.
Galeoloc Asoze ifezeke leyo. Lokhu kunodala ithuba lokuthi amapholisa neensebenzi zomnyago we-Home Affairs zenze imadlana eqathi nge-bribe.. We been here before 😐
What permanent residency? Nonsensical fancy terms used to capture & invade our country!🙄 ALL foreigners must go, including those damn permanent residents.
Fakimali uzobona....
lebogang_mzansi Soon:
They'll become SAns now👍🏿 That's good
Yes sir 🙌🏽
...Home Affairs!
masiphos PutSouthAfricanFirst effect
It will never happen in our lifetime, I can bet on that, it just an election ploy
Amen that what we want
Its another lie,there's nothing that can be implemented by the ANC
Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria has been doing this, but you'll here cowards screaming xenophobia because Mzansi is doing it now!
Soso_Makunga How do one acquire a permanent citizenship? Somebody please educate me
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And this permanent residency status will be 4 sale at our corrupt Home Affairs.
Why GP townships only, why not everywhere? Now MYANC and EFFSouthAfrica they going to sell them permanent residency status.
GautengProvince great move! PutSouthAfricanFirst
Step in the right direction, it must be all around the country, not just gauteng!
They will bribe ANC people