MUSINA -South Africa’s Home Affairs department has set up a series of roadblocks from the Beitbridge border post to account for illegal immigrants arriving from Zimbabwe.
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Sunday conducted an inspection at the port of entry where he monitored a roadblock where undocumented foreign nationals were intercepted.
Thirty year-old Sipho Moyo, who entered the country illegally saw her stay in South Africa being cut short at the roadblock.
“I jumped the border, I have no choice, they are sending me back to Zimbabwe and I don’t have anything,” Moyo said.
“I have to follow what they want. I don’t have the documents. No ID.”
Close to 200 undocumented foreign nationals had their journeys grinding to a halt at the check point
Custom officials apprehended them at a roadblock that was set up strategically, to combat illegal border jumping.
“This morning already 179 of them were found at the border and they were turned back, then there is another roadblock at Baobab about 30 minutes from Musina towards Makhado,” Motsoaledi said.
“ There is also a roadblock, anybody who might have escaped the first roadblock (will be caught).
“So we are putting a series of firewalls.
On the expired Zimbabwean Exemption Permits, Motsoaledi maintained that the South African government was not going to succumb to pressure.
“I have heard this story of people who are exerting pressure, perhaps it is high time the media reminds me who are those people, who are these people they are talking about who are exerting pressure and to whom,” he said. – Sabc News
