11/16/2023
By Farouk Chothia
BBC News
"If you arrest and deport them, they come back the following week," he said.
"You can't stop the movement of people. It's better to create a mechanism to allow people to be documented."
Yet, with an election looming, the government is unlikely to drop its plans, especially as some opinion polls suggest that the ANC risks losing its outright majority in parliament for the first time since 1994.
As Dr Moyo noted, those parties that called for tougher immigration policies, including tighter border controls, performed "very well" in the 2021 local elections in South Africa's economic heartland of Johannesburg and the capital, Tshwane.
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