Earlier this week, over 150 members of Operation Dudula marched to a number of enterprises in Cape Town.
Six factories in Witsand were apparently informed by the members that they have seven days to get rid of any illegal immigrants working there.
Operation Dudula threatens legal action if undocumented workers are not expelled from businesses.
The factories received a memo from the Operation Dudula participants.
If the accused illegal immigrants are not removed from the factories, the organisation will, according to the memorandum, call in relevant law enforcement or the Home Affairs Department to enforce the nation’s immigration laws.
If an illegal foreigner is discovered on a property where a business is being conducted, it is considered that the person in possession of that property engaged the foreigner, unless prima facie proof to the contrary is presented.
The movement’s Nkululeko Watermayer claimed that while South Africans are jobless, factories are hiring foreign workers.
The factory head claims that the movement sent them 50 CVs and ANOTHER memorandum.
According to IOL, Operation Dudula personnel had already visited the factory, according to PC Revalidation’s managing director Dale Lewis.
Lewis said that initially, roughly 10 members went to present a letter concerning the hiring of illegal immigrants.
Lewis estimated that there were roughly 150 persons when the group re-emerged.
They delivered another memo to the production manager in addition to about 50 resumes.
“The Dudula leader group is incredibly ignorant and ought to feel ashamed for choosing our company as the target of their protest,”
We don’t work with undocumented workers. Six foreign nationals are among our around 42 employees who all have documents allowing them to work legally in South Africa.
We only hire residents of the greater Atlantis, Mamre, and Witsand area, and the company is 80 percent owned by black women, according to Lewis.
Lewis added that the company has the right to hire anyone who is legitimately permitted to work in Mzansi.
In the event that the group tries to threaten his staff once more, he continued, they will seek legal recourse.