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"3 x Foreign Nationals arrested for mall robberies"

"3 x Foreign Nationals arrested for mall robberies"

This was one of the headlines today.

In another article Nigerians and an Israeli has been arrested at Lanseria with $100 000 that is R100m.
In yet another article yesterday, the US has put a travel warning for US tourists to avoid the Pretoria Zoo area.

My son's mother-in-law used to have a butchery in an area completely taken over by Somalians.

She was forced to close the butchery after 20 years and sell the stock and equipment out of the hand.

Secondary to that when one drives past the Dept of Int Afairs offices in Marabastad, Pretoria, one can see thousands of foreigners on that piece of land who is queuing every day to get their papers in order to immigrate to SA.

Recently the new visa legislation came out, but it appears it does not help anything to reduce these foreigners from Africa. Or, on second thoughts, is it only to piss off the European and USA citizens?

In Pretoria there is certain areas completely taken over by these foreign nationals to such an extent that one does not feel safe to go there. Pretoria CBD, Sunnyside, Arcadia, Pretoria West and many more.

They open businesses, I do not know how, and I am talking of BIG businesses not Spazas or small shops.

The Nigerians are involved with major crime in South Africa like prostitution, drugs, child trafficking, ATM scanners, fraudulent and scam advertisements in the Junkmail and OLX.

If you stop at a robot or any intersection you have to have your windows closed.

As what happened to me and a few people I know, they grab you through the window and demand cellphones and cash and even cigarettes. If you do not give it to them they cut you into pieces with homemade knives.

I would like to know how is it that these people can come to our country and act if it is their country in such a way that you as a SA are actually scared to live in the country where you are born.

Are we ever going to have a safe country like when I was a child?


        
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