We now have a Minister who is openly Afrophobic. Who, while at the Department of Health, foolishly said our public health is collapsed by the influx of fellow Africans. Minister Motsoaledi failed spectacularly at the Department of Health. He will surely fall and fail black people across the diaspora at this ministry too, and will lead a massive campaign against our fellow Africans.
The reality is that you will never find white people at Lindela Repatriation Centre; it is always African people who are chucked out of this country by the Department of Home Affairs. This confirms the view held across the continent that South Africa is an antiblack, xenophobic state only too willing to inflict the most unimaginable pain on black bodies.
In the immediate, the Department of Home Affairs must stop the practice of treating African people from other countries as if they suffer from leprosy. They are our siblings - our brothers and sisters and must be made to feel at home here.
How is it that an African country continues to be Eurocentric and continues to undermine the children of Sobukwe, of Biko and of Winnie Mandela? Minister, we will remember you for who you are; a man who stood here and further humiliated black women. Thank you very much. [Applause.]