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President Cyril Ramaphosa misdirected?
Following Ramaphosa’s address of the nation on 07 June 2026, MarchandMarch leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma took to SABC news and later to social media to weigh in on the President’s speech on the government’s approach to managing illegal migration and responding to recent anti-foreigner protests.
When asked about her reaction to what the president had to say, she welcomed the Presidents address of the ongoing tensions within the country. She appreciates patriot’s months of work in trying to get him to acknowledge this as a crisis and years of trying to get him to recognise this as something of importance on his agenda.
Jacinta fires on the president
“We are happy that he has acknowledged some of the things like you know, tuckshops being taken over by foreign nationals, he acknowledged the issue of some of the crimes that they do in the country, he also acknowledged you know the labour which has been now bombarded with people who are cheap labour coming from all across Africa to replace South Africans and break immigration laws”, she says.
She then goes on to express that she feels as though the President was improperly briefed, in her words, “misdirected” about the damage that illegal immigration has done and goes on to say that his places are not implementable.
“However, I do feel like the president has got a misdirection when it comes to the issue, where he is looking at it as a political issue … for me as safer country for our children is what would make me happy. Here is my biggest problem. I don’t think the president was properly briefed, I don’t think he took time to go to home affairs to go to the border to find out the extent of the damage because the issues that he is raising as solutions are impractical and I can tell you now that some of the things if not all of them that he said, are not going to be implementable”. She says.
Jacinta on Facebook
She then further took to Facebook to express the following:
“Whoever is advising the President is doing him a huge disservice! The President needs to go back to the drawing board and understand how most of the things he is suggesting won’t even work! He needs to practically take time and go to home affairs, BMA, the border, refuge centres etc, and understand the problem before he can even try to provide solutions. I’m disappointed that he continues to think that is a political and tribal issue”.
The country can now only watch and see whether the Presidents solutions are implementable. It appears netizens are just as sceptical as Jacinta with some even criticizing the speech, feigning disillusion with the Presidents promises. The last time the President declared a crisis was with the movements against GBVF and some feel this speech will produce the same outcome. A speech used as PR to pacify the masses with the same recycled solutions.
ActionSA has also come out with a statement expressing disappointment with the speech.
