Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma Wants Zimbabweans — Permit or No Permit — Out of South Africa

Makumbirofa Farms Advocacy & Human Rights

By Collen Makumbirofa

Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma wants every Zimbabwean out of South Africa — permit or no permit. It does not matter to her whether you are documented, working, paying rent, or raising your children lawfully in this country. Her position is simple and it is brutal: go home.

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Listen carefully to what she says. She speaks as though she is South Africa itself — yet she rejects the South African government’s right to speak for the country. She wants the authority of the state without its accountability, the microphone of a nation without the responsibility of governing one.

Not every South African agrees with Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and her “March and March” campaign.

The majority of South Africans are not cruel, and they are not the people her campaign claims to represent. They are good, decent, hospitable people who do not recognise their country in the hatred she is broadcasting.

And here is what her March and March campaigns are actually doing: hurting the very South Africans she claims to defend. Widows and widowers who rent out backyard rooms and run tuckshops to foreign tenants have lost that income overnight. Small landlords, informal traders, and families who depend on foreign customers are watching their livelihoods disappear — collateral damage in a campaign built on blame rather than solutions.

The Cost of Isolation

South Africa is now more isolated on the continent and beyond. Trade partnerships are strained, tourism confidence is shaken, and the country’s reputation as a stable, welcoming economy is taking a direct hit — millions of rand in lost trade and tourism, by the reports reaching our advocacy network through documented firsthand accounts gathered directly through Makumbirofa Farms’ advocacy network.

This is not liberation. This is self-inflicted poverty, dressed up as patriotism.

What is Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma’s actual plan to create jobs? There isn’t one. Street vending, informal restaurant work, selling vegetables on the pavement — these are survival tactics, not jobs. South Africans deserve real employment with real income, not a smaller slice of an already desperate informal economy that foreigners are blamed for competing in.

Her campaign takes the genuine pain of poor and unemployed South Africans and points it in the wrong direction — toward people who did not cause the unemployment crisis and cannot solve it either. That is not leadership. That is exploitation of suffering for a cause rooted in intolerance toward people because of where they were born, and campaigns built on that foundation do not last.

South Africa’s poverty and unemployment must not be blamed on foreigners. That is wrong, and it is a lie.

There will be no real solution to South Africa’s problems while the problem itself is misdiagnosed. Xenophobia is not an economic policy. It is a distraction from the hard work of building one — and until that work begins honestly, campaigns like this one will keep failing the very South Africans they claim to serve.

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