SAPS and the Department of Home Affairs are expected to convene a meeting with the affected foreign nationals who have spent three consecutive nights away from their residences, citing intimidation and abuse from locals.
Home Affairs is expected to verify their status in the country and permits to conduct business in South Africa, as well as address their safety concerns.
SABC News Reporter Jayed Paulse is at the Diakonia Centre in the Durban CBD and joins us live.
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Your governments will protect go home
DHA to check permits of undocumented immigrants??? I thought they're "undocumented immigrants" because they've been checked already??? You're an alarmist station and stoking the attack of foreigners. Should our brothers and sisters be slaughtered by those vigilante groups, rest assured that SABC 1 is complicit in that criminality.
I wonder if you can bring news for me
Where do all these people come from
Some of these people dont know why they are there
Check permits and do what next? We want results and solution
Man these people have been here so long they feel entitled to this land
Go home mama
There here fighting go fight your stupid old man's who called your government in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Asia, Somalia! You tried go home!
You and your kids are not south Africans problem!
They must go WORK for their Families in their COUNTRIES 👎🏾🚮.
If you are tired, why don't you get tired in your country and why do you want to be protected in SAfrica and not in your country! You are all refugees, not in the nearest country, but in SAfrica, because you see our country as being LAWLESS. You are strong and healthy men that can't fight for their rights in their countries, but choose to demand their rights in a country that will never belong to them, so SHAMEFUL!
Undocumented immigrants ?
So what are the MKs and March to March doing at the UNHCR centre?
It’s real a sign provocation and violence incitement against refugees
how do u check permitsa of undocumented migrants
Asijiki Abahambe sikhathele I dakamizwa izingane zethu ziyafa zidakamizwa #Abahambe
How do you issue a permit to an undocumented immigrant in the first place ?
Hasinifuni go home
Documented or not must go in this country pls we need a space even ur papers are fakes
Ppl from west Africa are not contributing alot to our problems, most problematic are our imidiate neighbors… Zim, Malawi, Mozambique Lesotho and so on Western is Nigeria and note all this nationals where not there, 😢
Crazy South Africans! 😂🤣
I wonder how the Muslims who got off the plane are fairing over there?
So called refugees are trouble some. How they're given status is the mystery. One day they will chase citizens. Perhaps that's why they couldn't stay in their countryies trouble some indeed. Manipulative taking advantage. This is not it
Corruption at home affairs and border management led to lack of public trust and to this. Now the police have to pick up the pieces
Time bomb is ticking slowly but surely 💥💥.. I don't know why can't they go back home, fix their countries and live in peace in their countries..they will come back with right documents and visit our Mzansi in peace
This word 'We have been attacked' has been abused and used loosely just like 'xenophobia'😂😂
13:55 What a clever South African Zulu man, what eloquently answered responses!! Clear, factual, presice and to the point!! That's how to handle all these mainstream mass media anti-South African so called journalists who are paid to destroy our country and portray us negatively. Always asking silly questions.!!
The entitlement though….The word refugee is misused, the other day some white people were called refugees running from the same country others coming to for refuge, its crazy.
You are undomented but you pay tax? Haai these people are liars.
South Africa and somali are brothers
😂😂😂 she is trying by all means to pain MK Party as violent party 😂😂😂sent by the boss who is not happy 😃
This is home affairs fault. They can come here and sort things out there and then
Can the home affairs call all the immigrants to re-new their documents. Open home affair offices and have outside invigelators to see if everything is done correctly this time.
Home sweet home,there's no place like home.
The only foreigners in South africa are black people, not white
This reporter has a problem with MK Party because the victim is correcting her that MK has been peaceful, but March & March attacked them. Why is the reporter continuing to blame MK?
How are they going to check things that are illegal my goodness….idiots
With all due respect, I do not hold illegal immigrants responsible for entering the country without proper documentation. Instead, I believe that the blame lies with customs, border patrol, the Department of Home Affairs, and the overall security system of the country. These are the entities that citizens should be directing their protests toward, as they are the ones ultimately responsible for managing immigration effectively. If we address the shortcomings within these systems, we can tackle the issue of illegal immigration more effectively.
If they are doing the right why are they scared of being taken videos
Journalists are annoying she want the guy to change the statement by asking obvious questions because they always want to defend foreigners
Can someone explain to these people that refugees are not allowed to work, they’re only kept for safety and go home when they’re safe,since they’re living a soft life in SA they can’t be refugees, no guys you taking us for a ride now,they must pay for their safety and stop using refugee because there’s no war in their countries 🥶🥶😡
SAns need to know that communication was sent out from somewhere to the likes of ANC, DA and the media to destroy march and march, so nothing will make sense to us. Illegal immigation is a sponsored project by the west, the globalist for selfish reasons. The more illegal immigrants in the SA, the weaker we are as SAns. They want SA at all costs. The same communique was circulated to destroy MKP after elections.
Malema called for them….they answered. Please contact the eff for an explanation
What a contradiction, to check the permit of undocumented.
We need to tackle all businesses, departments employing illegal immigrants enough is enough!!!!
Go home , Baba go home
This is now a Banana Republic😂 anybody can just wake up and become an immigration officer? Apparently he just saw him and knew he was a foreigner and he wanted to take his child from him? Is this really who you want representing South Africa to the world?
The chances of violence is very possible.People are sick to death of seeing our corrupt worthless political leaders allowing an illegal immigrant invasion, and not doing a damm thing to stop it.
Mabahambegahle
Tired about your host for years
Still trusting the same institution that caused this problem to solve the same problem.