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BL Premium reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for an end to vigilantism in SA’s townships, saying crime was the common enemy that must be defeated, not immigrants.
In his weekly letter on Monday he said that while the government had a responsibility to confront illegal foreign nationals, attacking migrants was “not an act of patriotism” and would lead to xenophobia. “It is immoral, racist and criminal,” Ramaphosa stated. His newsletter came amid increased attention on the problem of xenophobia in the wake of incidents last week in Diepsloot, a densely populated township in Gauteng. Ramaphosa on Monday described the deaths of the seven people who were killed in Diepsloot as a tragedy. He criticised those who stopped people on the street asking them to prove their legal migration status and political leaders “making unscientific statements” about immigrants for political gain, saying it was the government’s responsibility to enforce migration legislation. However, Ramaphosa also said illegal migration posed a risk to SA’s security, stability and economic progress. He said that measures being laid out to solve the problem included deploying 12,000 extra police officers.
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