DURBAN - Operation Dudula is expected to be launched in Durban when representatives hold a public meeting on Sunday in Durban Central, KwaZulu-Natal.
A poster has been circulating on social media and on the Operation Dudula Facebook page.
The group is against the employment of people from mainly countries in Africa, outside the borders of South Africa. Demands were made for South Africans to be employed at major retail shops.
They also demand the closure of foreign-owned shops, accusing their owners of selling drugs and of human trafficking. They want those jobs to be reserved for South Africans.
On Thursday, in Robertson, Cape Town, there were violent clashes between desperate farmworkers. Tensions between the workers from Lesotho and Zimbabwe boiled over in Nkqubela, which left hundreds of Zimbabweans homeless and forced to take refuge at a local police station.
Confrontations in the area left one person hospitalised, and 17 people sustained minor injuries, two of which were children. Many homes were torched.
Last week Operation Dudula was in Gauteng where various businesses in the Johannesburg CBD, Hillbrow, and other suburbs such as Orange Grove were raided.
There were also attacks on people in Alexandra in Johannesburg.
Representatives of Operation Dudula wrote on their Facebook page that it was time to petition Aaron Motsoaledi to release a forensic audit report on Home Affairs.
The slogans for Dudula read: “people’s economic revolution, our economy, and our heritage.”
On Monday President Cyril Ramaphosa said that when employers knowingly hire undocumented foreign workers, they contribute towards social tensions between citizens and foreign nationals in the country. He made these remarks during the 2022 Human Rights Day national event at the Reagile Community Centre in Koster, North West.
“I want to take this occasion to address employers in this country, including in hospitality, agriculture, transport, and other labour-intensive sectors. When employers knowingly hire undocumented foreign workers, they are breaking the law.
“Those who want to live and work in our country must, however, be documented, and have the right to be here (and) work here,” Ramaphosa said.
He said the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Employment and Labour continued to engage with employers to ensure compliance with the immigration, and labour laws of the country.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, said the various incidents of racism, lawlessness, and attacks on black African foreign nationals, and sometimes Asian foreign nationals, show that as a nation, humanity is at an all-time low.
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