Mashaba urges Dlodlo to act on migrant influx
Dlodlo and her department have just over a week to detail their plan to deal with illegal immigrants in Joburg or face court action
The City of Johannesburg said on Thursday that the Department of Home Affairs’s inaction on illegal immigration had led to “overwhelming prejudice and hardship” for the city. The city has given Home Affairs Minister Ayanda Dlodlo until Friday next week to tell it what it will do to regulate migration in the metro. Since Herman Mashaba took office as mayor in 2016, the issue of illegal migration has been of crucial importance to his administration. Poor migration policy affected financial planning and budgeting, housing, safety and security and social security, the city said. A letter written by the city’s lawyers to the department said the metro was hampered in its governance and planning responsibilities by the unknown number of illegal immigrants. The city said it was groping in the dark and did not know what budgetary provisions were needed to cater to them. Space that would ordinarily be occupied by ratepayers was now being occupied by illegal immigrants. This had worsened the h...
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