By Marcus Moloko
The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) has added its voice to ongoing debates around migration and protests targeting undocumented immigrants.
Speaking at the party’s National Elections Strategic Retreat at KuGompo City in the Eastern Cape, PAC leader Mzwanele Nyhontso urged South Africans to approach the issue with caution and historical awareness.
Nyhontso said “no African can be a foreigner in Africa. But as we all know, those who are registered and those who came to this country legally must be in the country. What we disagree with is when you can wake up and say they must just go. You can’t do that. These are Africans. And we’ve been saying no African can be a foreigner in Africa.”
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He said that current tensions needed to be understood in the context of colonial history.
“These borders that we see today are artificial
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