By Charmaine Ndlela
A Nigerian national, who is the husband of the Deputy Executive Mayor of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, has been taken in for questioning after police allegedly discovered 28 undocumented foreign nationals at a guesthouse in Bloemfontein.
The arrest happened during a nationwide anti-illegal immigration protest on Monday, as hundreds of demonstrators marched through the Bloemfontein CBD to the Free State Premier’s Office to hand over a memorandum of demands calling for stricter border security and stronger action against undocumented immigrants and drug-related crime.
Free State Premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae confirmed that 28 foreign nationals, including Ethiopian and Nigerian nationals, were found during a law enforcement operation at the guesthouse. Speaking to reporters on the ground, she said the owner of the establishment, a Nigerian national and the husband of a senior Mangaung municipal politician, was taken into custody.
Police have not yet announced formal charges against the suspect, and
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