00:00President Sir Maniposa pays tribute to the victims of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, where
00:06200 students protesting apartheid education were killed by police.
00:11Marking Youth Day, he also urged South Africans not to blame migrants for the country's challenges
00:16amid rising anti-immigrant tensions and violence.
00:22With regards to a number of those who are making a lot of noise about these marches
00:31that are taking place, there does seem to be an intention to destabilize the country.
00:37And their message is that we are not going to allow that.
00:41We are not going to allow the grievances and the concerns of our people to be misused,
00:49and to be abused by those who have nefarious intentions.
00:53The Soweto Uprising remains a defining moment in South Africa's fight against apartheid.
00:58This year's commemoration comes as a June 30th deadline for undocumented migrants to leave
01:03the country draws closer.
01:05There's a lot of disinformation, a lot of disinformation that is aimed at tarnishing the image of South
01:13Africa.
01:14We have explained fully the challenge that we have of immigration in our country and many
01:20other countries around the world, including our own continent, have their own challenges
01:25of immigration.
01:27The one thing that South Africans are not is xenophobic.
01:31South Africans are not xenophobic, and we are addressing their concerns.
01:35Nearly 50 years after the Soweto Uprising, many young South Africans still face major challenges,
01:40including unemployment, inequality, poverty and rising drug and alcohol abuse.
01:45South Africans are not equal to all nations, or even other countries.
01:45South Africans are not saying that those Americans are not going to kill us.
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