'90% of workers in construction are illegal immigrants' 

everything this guy said sounds credible from my own observation

People like this guy deserve to be in a parliament as ministers, ANC just elected irrelevant people in the ministry position, As south Africans we have to strive for a better government, there are lot of South Africans with potential and skills to lead South Africa, Am tired of ANC to allow the minority to manipulate them because of money. South Africans let take the government by force, we don't have to allow the imperialist to rule our own country.

Remember when we were told over the last 4 years that this isn't happening? Remember when we were bombarded daily on the same news channels with NGO and other "SA establishment" people (usually ethnic minorities), that said that there are no significant numbers of illegals in SA and that all these complaints are illegitimate and no jobs were being taken? I remember....and I won't forget. #NotMyEstablishment

You are doing a good job brother for our sons and daughters .

Enos, keep up the good work, my brother. South Africa cannot solve the problems of the entire continent, we have our own problems too youth unemployment being one of them. Zimbabweans must also return home and rebuild their country for the next generation. Mabena, go home and help rebuild Zimbabwe, and stop lobbying the Home Affairs Department to relax immigration rules for Zimbabweans.

I can confirm these numbers. It’s even worse here in Cape Town, we looking at 99%

As you say, 90% of workers are foreign nationals, and I can not dispute this statement. Come to the shopping center at Cnr Garsfontein and Rubinstein here in Pretoria. You will see super black men there working. They speak Shona. They are working in that building sites as bricklayers and dakaboys. They do other things there. Others are parking marshalls. A lot of them. .

The guest is 100% about the construction sector being disproportionately dominated by foreigners. A lifetime ago during my hustling days I went to Rivonia where I had found a piece job under a subcontractor who was building for Outsurance. To my shock I was the only South Africa there. Every single one of those men I met that day who had come for work was a Lesotho national.

You must also remember ANC govt, from the start, closed nursing schools and teachers' training colleges. They also changed high school curriculum, taking away woodwork and other artisans subjects. They didn't build schools n technical colleges. We dont have colleges teaching n training the building trade.

Sedgefield Western Cape are swamped with Malawians

This is the problem with a lawless country - everyone will exploit the loopholes. Companies need to be held accountable. The guy who installed my lights employed Malawians with little/no electrical experience. He just dropped them off and he left. They then continue to do bad work. This is not a way to run anything.

NewzroomAfrica there’s free speech in SA don’t delete our comments. This is one step in the right direction COMBAT.

Good job COMBAT. Thank you.

Finally South Africans starting to love their country. Let us be like BOTSWANA, love their country.

Starting from domestic workers, restaurants, construction.same WhatsApp group, foreigners spaza shops including their shops selling clothes, furniture etc are not paying tax...can our brother also attend this tax paying issue plssssss.he is a doing a great job 👏👏👏

Can SA work as a labourer in the construction industry that the question, how many of them will like to work in such industry which required hard work, how man black SA drive's bolt or Uber ask yourself that question, arrest all the illegal immigrant work in the construction today, i bet you , that industry will remain vacant for ever, because an average south Africa wanna work in an office with AC and even if let SA black SA agrees to work in the construction company as a labourer the next thing they will misbehaving and asking for salary increase and going on strike everyday, some people will stop coming to work and still want there salary, too much entitlement

It's on ActionSA and PA who are willing to solve this issue of undocumented foreigners. Unfortunately DA won't get rid of undocumented foreigners because they benefits from cheap labour while ANC Is not willing to solve this issue that's why the president didn't give Gayton Makenzie a home affairs ministry.

Well done bhuti, continue the hard work!! 👏🏾👏🏾

Correctly so. The issue is the employers.

They must also check debonair,KFC most are foreign nationals

Xoli, you are out of topic, this guy says he is looking and talking about hiring illegal immigrants over our unemployed South Africans, what is his business in LINDELA.? Xoli these people did not come here LEGALLY OR PER INVITATION. Xoli start talking about HILLBROW and YEOVILLE.

Go to rosebank restaurants and also those guys who do delivery

This is a big problem in our country immigrants over citizens

The situation is unfair to citizens who are marginalised and set aside and the government has done absolutely nothing, we are talking about potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs, being given to people who should not have them

Why can’t black SA create jobs for us? They have been enriching themselves and distracting us with illegal immigration. Many foreign companies have closed down because of our approach towards immigration and hence I found myself without job.

Well done keep up the great work cause most home affairs immigration officials are taking bribes,and sectors like hospitality,farming and construction are hiring illegal immigrants

What a stupid question. Why would a civilian comment on the state of Lindela? The laws are very clear Xoli and the guest speaker is correct there is a crisis in South Africa and we will soon see the scenes that came out of Kenya. From the video shown I could count at least 40 workers. That’s 40 South African households with an average of 4 persons. That’s 160 South Africans with no idea of where their next meal will come from. The issues these foreign nationals have back home is not the responsibility of the South African government nor should it come at the detriment of South Africans. They must go back and fight for their countries it’s that simple.

Who's the employer ? what's the minister of home affairs saying ? kuzoshuba

Thank you brother doing the God work 🙏💚

They always leave out pakistanis why alway chase Africans not that it's wrong also focus on pakistanis as well we have no relations with them.

Xoli South Africans are suffering economic hardships, you are now excusing illegal working, sorry this is the problem in SA, feel sorry for others but not your own. the only ones benefitting is those who enjoy cheap labour.

Come to Potchefstroom malls with Chinese shops all of them are foreigners

Zimbabweans will stop being arrogant on social media 😂

I picked up a hitch hiker a while ago. He was a young local lad. I asked him if he was employed. He said no but he had a job at a construction site but left because the work was too hard. If this attitude is common , then it's no surprise that foreigners are taking over. Employers want the best value for money from their employees. It's not just about hiring the cheapest person. Work ethic and honesty play a big part too.

Talk about the ANC/DA open border policy causing major problems for ordinary South Africans

I've seen this in different construction company all foreigners while south African are sitting on pavement with placard looking for jobs

they are all over local motor industry etc

Western Cape is leading with cheap labour

Xoli if you as the men of your house have problems do you run away from your home? So this problems they are having in their countries are created by their leads they voted them. Keep up the good work COMBAT

Pls establish a toll-free number so that we can help in reporting companies that are employing illegal foreigners

God bless you my brother 🙏 ❤❤❤

Thank you leadership my Patriot #put South Africans first ✊🏿🇿🇦we are being undermined in this country go to waterfall,denfein and cider most of domestic worker's are foreign nationals why

Also in real estate jobs

Ive worked in constructions and its true 100%

NO COUNTRY CAN DEVELOP WITHOUT FOREIGN LABOR INPUT LEGAL OR ILLEGAL....BE COMPETITIVE AND WORK HARD EXCUSES WILL NEVER TAKE US ANYWHERE AS A PEOPLE

*Big up Combat, But the sad part is that this same youth you are fighting for is EFF, they are supporting Malema who want to open borders for all kind of illegal immigrants to come to SA & take their jobs*

Hard labours all over the world are for outsiders...Local needs jobs of dignity not waiters,bricklayers, car guards,maids

We all want to be employed but very few want to work.

I am in the construction sector. Illegal immigrants from Mozambique and Zim are extremely good with technical construction knowledge. SA workers dont have a clue on construction. Foreigners can do slabs, concrete, bricklaying, roofing, etc. They have no peer. SA educational standards teach people irrelevant skills on construction. SA workers are extremely disruptive and expensive without any value.

To EFF supporters. EFF = Open borders? Agreed? Most South Africans are sitting at home while most foreigners are working in SA? How then do you continue to support EFF?

Thats what the DA, ANC and EFF stand for. 1. The DA opposed Aaron Motsoaledi when he wanted to cancel their permits. 2. The EFF calls for them to find creative ways to enter south africa. 3. The ANC just keeps the borders opened.

My sister and her colleagues lost their job at the petrol station because the station employed Congolese and Zimbabwen nationals.

Thank you Mr Maake

Cresta Mall? Seriously rather raid Windsor near Cresta. Completely overtaken by foreign nationals. So many illegal Chinese and Bangladeshi nd Pakistani shops. In Northcliff there are plenty small little Pakistani cell phone "shops" and also Chinese "grocery" shops. They are fronts and are used to launder money

Don't blame the foreigners blame the bosses of the company

South Africans must go out and take over works in construction, mines and farms. The home affairs ministry must make sure of that. That will also reduce the number of people getting grants even child grants, those single mothers and fathers must get jobs on the farms, and tax payers won't be burdened. The mines, farms, construction industries are calling you.

Can the indigenous SA men and women work in construction sites as bricklayers and dakaboys?

How can we get he's contact so we can call him

ILLÉGAL AFRICANS ONLY OR ANYONE ILLEGAL ? BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN MANY ILLEGALS FROM EUROPE, ASIA , AMERICAS, AND AUSTRALIA HOW MANY WERE ARRESTED ?

When are they going to visit the White Owned Farms??? As far as the grape farms of the Northern Cape they work on the farms....

Our poor brothers trying to feed their families. Its sad seeing them run-away like that. Employers like the foreigner work ethic. 101% effort

Let foreigners go and see if south Africans will do that jobs 😅😅😅

Whose are the so called foreign nationals , the european apartheid settlers that currently control the land and economy amabhunu lama afrikanner..the ramaphosa anc now in bed with the da ...akulungi lutho bafethu

Big up to Mr Enos Maake well stated facts

What is it that the employers really admire from foreigners that locals don't have? There's a number of reasons why South African employers choose foreign workers than locals. 1 work ethics. No employer want someone who threatens them with violence or rude to them. 2 time-line. All jobs have a dead line especially construction. As an employer and you may have mixed some chemicals that hardens in a short time but when you ask locals to push a bit and have their break in an hour's time or less in most cases locals will be like no, its my time and i have to seat. That delays the job and cost money and time as the employer may have to go and buy more chemicals. Locals dont come to work after weekend, that's a disease and clients have targets. 3) Drunkenness at work. 4)laziness mostly in construction. Complaining too much about how heavy the job is but forgetting that is the reason they are hired. They forget that if it wasn't going to be heavy i would do it myself. 5)Rudeness is a problem in restaurants or hospitality industry in general. We can't have people who talk back to clients, they are the same people bringing us business. 6) South Africans don'tlike working overtime, weekend or holidays but farm produce don' t have any of that. Produce would spoil because someone doesn't prefer to work on weekend or holiday.7) I'm sure we all want to employ someone who knows what they want. Hiring someone who came specifically for work from far away lands is like finding a needle in the middle of the ocean. This is one side of the story why employers prefer foreign people as workers than locals 1)Most companies employ foreign nationals to avoid paying tax, uif, insurance. 2) They employ foreigners so that they won't pay them accordingly

The problem we have is this government we have and now it's worse since DA is incharge because they hate black South African people now they will replace us using foreigners and ramaphosa is also not working for south African black people

Do we understand that the economy of South Africa is built on migrant labour? From the 1800s when the apartheid state discovered gold and diamonds, and in the farms, the South African economy has always thrived from the exploitation of migrant labour. Migrant labour has made SA the biggest most developed economy in Africa. To date, most industries thrive from the migrant labour.

Home affairs must operate 24 hrs, coz at night or during weekends you can't detain a alleged illegal foreigner without a 212 form which can be only obtained at immigrations office

Case in point, the Western Cape George building collapse where some employees late and alive were undocumented in the Construction project

So the home affair wants to back up these wmc businesses that are promoting these worker by giving them the visas to make it easier to use these workers to reduce costs and not for the sake of south Africans

How can a human being called a illegal immigrant?

Construction work is not for the faint hearted.

This is not about explotation of African workers its zenophobic thats all

How many Russians,Greeks have been arrested?????

It will be better to have a database of south Africans looking for construction work ..then replace the foreigners with the SAns ..so that there is no disruption of projects...it's wonderful to kick out and not find adequate numbers to replace....these are investor projects..

You are labelled a xenophobic if you mention such things by EFF members

This guy and his group are wise! Involve the law enforcement agencies. No vigilantism

Every country you visit , school or wanna work in , everybody should live legally. N I’m not even South African

Put South Africans first and every country must be accountable to it's own citizen's. QHAA

Enos, you're doing a superb job🎉🎉🎉🎉

The Combat inspection group must visit the Western Cape and start with the restaurants in Waterfront. Unfortunately our immigration law under amendment does not allow us to detain and deport illegal foreigners, they get off easily on warning or with a suspended sentence or payment of a fine not more than one thousand rand. In fact as the justice department we deported most illegal foreigners but they come back next week coz unfortunately they are worse off in their countries, we have no border entry controls - Most Zimbabweans just walk into the country or take a taxi/bus and unfortunately our home affairs does not even have the capacity to assist the foreigners that are willing legalize their status in the country. Please invite Thabo Mbeki and Zuma and ask him about the arms deal and why he prioritized financing his arms deal while most South African citizens died due to lack of funds for HIV/AIDS treatment. We still need answers.

This is so easy to understand.The Trade Unions protect lazy South Africans as do the SACP. They create sheltered employment for low to zero productivity, same as government doess. SA has historically always imported labour for use on the mines. Why?, because South African labour is highly problematic. SA should by all means support open borders and use whatever labour it chooses to from the continental pool. Only then will SA grow again. At the same time, government is also not required. What do they do for SA based on what we can see and experience. Answer, NOTHING!

What i am not convinced here is that why SA home affairs refuse to document the foreigner that are qualified to be documented

Immigration SA fault and the department of labour! 😢

DJ Zinhle said it, these guys are unemployable, no skills whatsoever!

SA law enforcement must implement existing laws and grow the economy as this is creating hate towards foreign nationals

Where were SAns when foreigners were taking over. It's easy to blame, but no one want to take responsibility

Targeting Companies employing Particularly black Africans, Combat dont be afraid of White men , Check alll not specific 🤔🤔🤔

When you don't have enough food to feed your kids... Will you be able to give food to your nextdoor neighbor? Let's not be hypocritical African people. South Africa is and should be reserved firstly by it's citezens the rest of the people should come second

The ironic thing is that South Africans went to Dubai to help them build their ridiculous structures and upon arrival, their passports were confiscated. Salaries were cut 3 - 5 times what they were told they would get. They were also forced to live near people they had never met in the outskirts of Dubai...

My question is, this, do South Africans go there to look for work and they get turned back?

Nigeria has the same problem, but the issue is that foreign companies hire nigerians from the other side of the country, where the factory is and refuse to hire locals. It is always exploitation, but different forms of it.

Nothing happens in Bloemfontein. Lesotho nationals have totally taken over city. We need serious intervention here..

You can see the face of this guy Enos. He is driven by hatred by his own incompetence

But would you work at a construction site with an ID? As a daka boy 7an to 5pm hard labour

When Gayton Mckhenzie was stressing about this issue nobody took heed to what he was saying,ayi this country

There is a company called simple grow agriculture employed Malawians only in knoppieslaarge plot 88

SA you’re not unique in that as it is all over the world. Your citizens won’t do that work so guess what?

The question is can your son's really work, after fast payment, they don't show up, going to drink alcohol

#ShutDownUnionBuilding