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Home Affairs dealing with challenges around documentation of foreign nationals

Source: EWN, 22/02/2017

JOHANNESBURG â€" The Home Affairs Department says itâ€™s not fair to say
there has been a lack of action from government in dealing with
challenges around the documentation of foreign nationals in South
Africa.

The department was responding to the allegations that police and
government have been slow to respond the violence in Rosettenville and
Pretoria West.

Late on Monday night, around 30 foreign-owned shops were looted in the
capital by locals who claim the properties were used as drug dens and
brothels.

The department says distortion in the labor markets is happening as a
result of undocumented people who are given what is referred to as
slave wages, which South Africanâ€™s canâ€™t compete with.

The departmentâ€™s Mayihlome Tshwete says â€œSo the documentation of
various foreign nationals as a result of government doing something.

And then thereâ€™s also a migration policy now that government
is putting together.â€

The department says one of the biggest challenges is that immigration
is not thoroughly discussed when there are no xenophobic attacks.

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