By Sihle Mavuso
The eThekwini municipality has made a passionate plea to employers around Durban to stop dumping foreign nationals at the Old Drive In repatriation site, saying the site is now officially closed after all the immigrants that were there have been moved to Musina in Limpopo, where the government has set up a new repatriation centre.
The municipality’s plea comes as employers are now dumping their former foreign employees at the site, even after it was closed on June 30.
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The first batch of foreign nationals was dumped in the early morning of July 1 (Wednesday this week), and fortunately, some contracted buses were still on site, so they were squeezed in and moved to Musina.
However, unlike their counterparts who left earlier, some of their belongings, the batch on
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