Refugee University Students Petition for Employment Recognition in South Africa

Time to raise our voices...

Also a student in South Africa

Yes we need to be recognised. We are on the same level with SA students.

Thank you for initiating this,

this will help

We need to consider refugees and asylum seekers as humans!!!!! Economic progress start with togetherness and interconnectedness........ We have ideas that are left dormant because of our status . We as refugees South African assets that are being waisted. We need to have equal privileges ti work at our potentiall.

Am sign this petition in order to have better tomorrow

Please do provide these students with employment. It is a disadvantage, to have had studied for a period of time, and then that degree amounts to nothing. How will they cater for their needs if there is no platform generating income?

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Being a refugee is not a insult, all humans should be treated equally. Job for everyone

For the good of Africa, Refugee graduate should be be given a fair employment in South Africa.

I agree

I have struggled to get employed in the financial sector this might make things better

We all are human being.

All of us we are human being.

Being a refugee is not something that anybody choose willingly. When a child grows up in a certain place from the age they were 10yrs to the age of 25yrs that child is going to call that place "Home" and even if that's not the home of your father or mother it is still your home because that's where you study, you adapt the cultural tendencies of the people from that place and most if not all your friend tend to be from that placer. This is the reality for many of us refugees in South Africa. We consider SA home but it is heartbreaking when you realise thay what you have always thought to be home from the young age of 13yr start rejecting you when you are at the age to finally build a life as an individual and build the society that you live in. We, refugees students, when we graduate; we have the same passion and at the same standards as South African students and everytime a well deserving student is denied an opportunity based his/her refugee status, its like taking two steps backward. This Country recognise the rights of a refugee and everytime those rights are overlooked its a step backward in terms of human rights standards therefore we implore,SA and SAn employers to hear our voices, recognise our rights, accept us into society and recognise our abilities in the workplace. We are not that different from any other human being and after all this is the

Plus-My voice counts

You first took my dignity when you stole the little that I had worked I your country and now you taking the little hope I have remaining and that's employment. What will happen to me once my parents are no longer working.. What about the education I am receiving here. It's time I am recognized as contributing member of South African Society. I can't change my country over night but I do contribute to the south african tax and leaving expenditure as well as university and school fees. International students can return home but unfortunately it's not up to me to return home. I've known South Africa my whole life and I would be right to call it home but yet the same home is threatening to take the little joy I had. Include in the society because refugee professionals are contributing to the over performance of South Africa.

Foreign students should be recognised as any other SA professional after completing their degrees. I have been in class with them and have been tutored by them, it is no doubt that the country needs them. What we doing to our brothers and sisters is totally not right. Africa BAMBANANI, Africa PHAMBILI

We did not choose to be refugees