While Kanye West won’t be getting down in the City of Angles‚ Mos Def is likely not to be doing it in the Mother City.
On Wednesday‚ ahead of a Home Affairs briefing on “matters related to the arrest of US musician and actor‚ Mr Dante Terrell Smith – also known as Mos Def and/or Yasiin Bey”‚ #NoMorePartiesinSA was trending on Twitter.
The hashtag is a play on the title of West’s No More Parties in LA‚ which was released this week.
Def adapted the title in a freestyle rap in which he took issue with SA authorities.: “Please tell them no more parties in SA/Hey Home Affairs I don’t need to stay/Why don’t I feel safe/This isn’t an expression of fear”.
Def had been arrested on January 14‚ after he had tried to leave Cape Town International Airport five days earlier “by producing an unrecognised ‘World Passport’‚ which was declined by immigration officials“‚ Home Affairs said last week.
He appeared in the Bellville Magistrate Court on January 15.
Home Affairs said it has subsequently emerged that his “wife‚ mother and four children had overstayed and were sojourning in the country illegally” and an order has been issued to them “to depart the country within 14 days”.
Home Affairs’ spokesperson Mayihlome Tshwete wasn’t afraid of the fray and waded into the Twitter debate‚ with a hip answer or two on Wednesday morning.
When questioned by New Neruru‚ Who Dis? @PerCiProtege about “@HomeAffairsSA are you guys coming out with a reply or are you gonna let us become the Meek Mill of the world??? #NoMorePartiesInSA”‚ Mayi ?@MTshwete replied: “Dropping at 12h00”.
2pacalypse @camRon–Mor suggest that some corners should be cut for the star — “@MTshwete since we on this tip. Let’s free Yasiin‚ citizenship nyana?” – but the public servant was having none of it: “Application usually comes first”.
This was in line with his minister Malusi Gigaba’s insistence that immigration officials‚ in the course of exercising their duties‚ ought to apply the law without fear of favour.
Tshwete had‚ when the news of the arrest first broke‚ responded to shock responses from music lovers with sympathy: “We are all fans guys...but the law is the law”.
Dropping at noon‚ Home Affairs to say if Mos Def will face the rap
While Kanye West won’t be getting down in the City of Angles‚ Mos Def is likely not to be doing it in the Mother City.
On Wednesday‚ ahead of a Home Affairs briefing on “matters related to the arrest of US musician and actor‚ Mr Dante Terrell Smith – also known as Mos Def and/or Yasiin Bey”‚ #NoMorePartiesinSA was trending on Twitter.
The hashtag is a play on the title of West’s No More Parties in LA‚ which was released this week.
Def adapted the title in a freestyle rap in which he took issue with SA authorities.: “Please tell them no more parties in SA/Hey Home Affairs I don’t need to stay/Why don’t I feel safe/This isn’t an expression of fear”.
Def had been arrested on January 14‚ after he had tried to leave Cape Town International Airport five days earlier “by producing an unrecognised ‘World Passport’‚ which was declined by immigration officials“‚ Home Affairs said last week.
He appeared in the Bellville Magistrate Court on January 15.
Home Affairs said it has subsequently emerged that his “wife‚ mother and four children had overstayed and were sojourning in the country illegally” and an order has been issued to them “to depart the country within 14 days”.
Home Affairs’ spokesperson Mayihlome Tshwete wasn’t afraid of the fray and waded into the Twitter debate‚ with a hip answer or two on Wednesday morning.
When questioned by New Neruru‚ Who Dis? @PerCiProtege about “@HomeAffairsSA are you guys coming out with a reply or are you gonna let us become the Meek Mill of the world??? #NoMorePartiesInSA”‚ Mayi ?@MTshwete replied: “Dropping at 12h00”.
2pacalypse @camRon–Mor suggest that some corners should be cut for the star — “@MTshwete since we on this tip. Let’s free Yasiin‚ citizenship nyana?” – but the public servant was having none of it: “Application usually comes first”.
This was in line with his minister Malusi Gigaba’s insistence that immigration officials‚ in the course of exercising their duties‚ ought to apply the law without fear of favour.
Tshwete had‚ when the news of the arrest first broke‚ responded to shock responses from music lovers with sympathy: “We are all fans guys...but the law is the law”.
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