Corruption Watch has condemned what it called the recent "reprehensible" statements made by Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba in which he describes illegal immigrants in Johannesburg’s inner city as criminals who should be dealt with as such. The mayor was delivering a speech to mark his first 100 days in office. "The organisation calls on the DA to repudiate these unfounded comments that have the potential to spark anti-immigrant emotions‚ and urges the party to call the mayor to order‚" Corruption Watch said in a statement. It added: "At the helm of a city as diverse as Johannesburg‚ it is surely incumbent on Mashaba to seek to unite rather than to divide the residents of the city which he oversees." In November Corruption Watch released a report on corruption in the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) immigration system‚ exposing a long chain of exploitation of immigrants by crooked officials demanding that they pay thousands of rands for services that are actually free‚ as stated b...
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