Government is asking for too much in expecting citizens to ensure that Zimbabwean nationals don't work in South Africa, writes Richard Chemaly.
I once watched a great satirical news film called The Onion , which reported the American plan to tackle obesity - a plan that simply consisted of adjusting the definition of obesity from 65% body fat to 90%. This sounds remarkably similar to our matric pass strategy in reality, but could also be a new method of skirting results.
The capacity for accommodating illegal foreigners in South Africa is primarily constructed by our lacklustre state and yet it now falls on employers to report them? In isolation, that makes sense. Surely scenario B should be more lekker. Let’s see. You report an illegal foreigner who applies for a job, the police take 17 days to get back to you. When it finally gets to court, it’s postponed three times before you have to give evidence 10 months later.In the meantime, the accused has found out that you snitched on them and a community is out to get you.
There is also no real plan to shore up the borders, and why would there be? It’s not like that’s a priority or anything, if the plan is to catch illegal foreigners by means of lacking work permits.
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