Mabuza promises firmer action against undocumented foreign nationals and defends neutral stance on Ukraine
Since the beginning of the Dudula campaigns in various parts of Gauteng, government has had to move quicker in establishing a border management agency to attend to the country’s porous borders system.
But he said they were concerned about the recent increase of criminal activities involving foreign nationals, which include the recent planned cash-in-transit heist that culminated in eight deaths and several injuries when police pounced on a criminal gang in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, last month. Mabuza said the immigration system was implementing stringent measures to deal with the influx of undocumented foreign nationals into the country, who subsequently compete with South Africans for limited resources. This competition has often led to tensions in many communities and manifested in different anti-foreign national campaigns.
However, Mabuza said, home affairs conducts its law enforcement activities in full compliance with the applicable human rights standards and has interpreted the Immigration Act to develop capacity and systems to track and repatriate all undocumented foreign nationals who enter South Africa illegally.
“The recruitment of the first code of border guards is currently under way on the intelligence-driven initiative to deal with border crimes.” He said: