African solidarity Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/african-solidarity/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 29 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 African solidarity Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/african-solidarity/ 32 32 SA doesn’t agree with Donald Trump’s immigration block https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/sa-doesnt-agree-donald-trumps-immigration-block/ Sun, 29 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/sa-doesnt-agree-donald-trumps-immigration-block/ South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has said his government disagrees with President Donald Trump’s order to block entry to the US for the next three months  for people from seven muslim-majority countries – and that blanket bans on particular nationalities are a violation of international law. Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says Donald […]

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South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has said his government disagrees with President Donald Trump’s order to block entry to the US for the next three months  for people from seven muslim-majority countries – and that blanket bans on particular nationalities are a violation of international law.

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says Donald Trump should be left to do what he believes is good for the United States while the Pretoria government  should be allowed to do what it believes is best for South Africa.

But, he says, South Africa does not agree with the measures taken by Trump to block refugees from certain countries.

The minister says South Africa has an immigration policy based on human rights, humane treatment of people in distress and African solidarity.

Gigaba says South Africa would never ban person from a certain country or because  of religious, gender or sexual orientation.

He  says it violates international law to impose a collective ban on people – except people belonging to to an organisation injurious to national interests.

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