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TimesLive reports that Operation Dudula members marched to shops and filling stations in Cape Town on Wednesday, demanding that they should get rid of their foreign staff.
Unemployed youth joined about 200 Operation Dudula members who demanded jobs for them in Kraaifontein. The group handed CVs of unemployed South Africans to the workplaces and demanded that they be employed within seven days. Daniswa Jaxa, secretary of the Kraaifontein branch, confirmed that the movement had handed CVs to six companies. Jaxa waxed lyrical about a “post-foreign employee era”. “The companies welcomed us and signed our memorandum of demands,” she claimed and went on to say: “People are getting agitated. On the 19th, we are heading to the Strand. Foreigners must be kicked out of those jobs and return to their countries to fix their economies. Our children need jobs.” Jaxa said the movement was not targeting doctors. “We are talking about cashiers, petrol attendants, security guards, construction workers ... We are fighting for jobs that are meant for us,” she asserted. Operation Dudula apparently has branches in Fish Hoek, Kraaifontein, Stellenbosch, Strand, Mfuleni, Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, and Nyanga. Last week it launched another branch in Paarl.
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