By Charmaine Ndlela
More than 13,000 foreign nationals have been repatriated or deported through Beitbridge and OR Tambo International Airport in the past five days, according to Border Management Authority (BMA) Commissioner Dr Michael Masiapato.
Anti-illegal immigration mobilisation continues across the country ahead of 30 June, a date declared by activist groups including March and March as a “deadline” for undocumented foreign nationals to leave South Africa.
March and March founder Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma is expected to address the media in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
Masiapato told the SABC that about 9,000 Malawian nationals and 3,000 Zimbabwean nationals had been processed through Beitbridge Border Post. At the same time, a further 900 Ghanaians and 300 Nigerians were repatriated through OR Tambo International Airport.
He said the N1 corridor leading to Beitbridge and the N4 corridor towards the Lebombo Border Post remained the primary routes being used in the operations.
“Over the past
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