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TimesLIVE reports that fact-checking group Africa Check has responded to Action SA leader Herman Mashaba’s statement that SA has 15 million “undocumented foreigners” by indicating that there is no evidence to support the claim.
Mashaba made the claim earlier this month, saying the country had 15 million undocumented foreigners with some “occupying jobs that can be done by our own people”. To back up his claim, Mashaba shared a link to a 2019 news report, which claimed that 15 million people in SA were unregistered, and many are “stateless children”. It also stated that “the World Bank say that the country has more than 15 million unregistered people”. However, Africa Check said its research revealed no evidence to support Mashaba’s claim. The organisation said it was difficult to account for every undocumented migrant, but available data “points to a figure much lower than 15 million”. According to Stats SA's chief director of demographic analysis, Diego Iturralde, the number of foreign-born people living in SA in 2020 was about 3.9 million. He told Africa Check this included both documented and undocumented foreigners.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Unathi Nkanjeni at TimesLIVE
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