Gauteng Premier David Makhura called for an end to attacks on foreign nationals. He said government and civil society organisations need to work together in addressing the problem of illegal foreign nationals.
He further went to touch the issue of porous border and said that they must be strengthened to avoid foreign nationals flooding in the country undocumented.
“We are working, we have worked with organisations representing refugees and migrants in Gauteng, we will continue to work with them,” Makhura said.
“We want to make sure they are in our province and our country legally. We also want to ensure our state provides security to the borders.”
“We don’t want citizens to take the law in our own hands, it’s the job of law enforcement agencies.
“We want to work with civil society concerned with migration and undocumented foreigners. Nobody should resort to violence and law enforcement officers should do their jobs.
“People should be attacked or killed because they are foreign nationals.”
South Africans were not pleased with Makhura’s call. Social media users flooded to Twitter to call the premier out, some are alleging him and other politicians who have taken the side of the foreign nationals of trying to protect their businesses which are based in foreign countries.
The user claimed that the country is in this mess because of the premier and his politician friends particularly those who are in the ruling party. The politicians have looted the country’s coffers and drove it into the mess it is now, according to the users.
See their reactions below:
@Zee_Seed9 said “@David_Makhura Can you show us who “attacked foreigners..” and where? Or you are just talking kak because you can? You have a platform you are using it to talk crap. No one is attacking foreigners though they are killing us like flies. Check my PINNED tweet.”
@PatrickTPhatudi said “Correction. Who’s attacking foreigners. Operation DUDULA is not attacking foreigners. They are implementing sections 201,140 according to RSA constitution.”
@sectionnobs said “The reason he says this is because they own mines in those countries & we are benefiting nothing & the main worries is their shares not life’s of our citizens or poverty.illegal immigrant is a problem.get proper documentation then you are welcome”
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