The South Africa Home Affairs Minister, Dr. Leon Schreiber who was appointed on the 30th of June 2024, has revealed that he has ordered new buses to deport illegal immigrants.
The South AfricanPresident, Cyril Ramaphosa appointed Schreiber to one of the country’s most crucial and critical ministries.
Schreiber, who is from the Democratic Alliance, landed the post after his party entered the Government of National Unity (GNU), consisting of 11 political parties.
At first there were hopes and speculations that a DA Home Affairs Minister would not take a hard stance on immigration. This is after, last month, the party’s Federal Council chairperson, Hellen Zille, expressed opposition to expelling Zimbabweans possessing the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP), saying that the Home Affairs department should regularise them.
However, it now appears that the DA Home Affairs Minister is staunchly against illegal immigrants. Last week, Schreiber told the South African parliament that his department would raid restaurants and spaza shops, among others and clean them of illegal immigrants:
“In the coming year, Home Affairs will increase the number of inspections at restaurants, spaza shops, farms and mines by over 50% in order to take action against people illegally employed, including through deportations.”
Following through on his announcement last week, Minister Schreiber disclosed that he has ordered buses to deport illegal immigrants to their countries.
He revealed this on SA’s Power987 that he had ordered ten new buses, which are now being manufactured. The buses are to help with the deportation of illegal immigrants.
Schreiber added that his department is in contact with other governments to help repatriate their nationals living in South Africa illegally.
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