'We are coming for you' - Gigaba to businesses employing illegal immigrants
23 February 2017
Cape Town - Unethical businesses that employ illegal immigrants are going to be dealt with harshly and managers will be arrested for not adhering to the law, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba warned on Thursday.
"Companies, businesses: Be warned. We are coming for you. We will charge them, there’s no doubt. The manager will be charged. Often times, we focus on the undocumented employee and not the company," he said.
They would deport the illegal immigrants, he said, but the businesses would not be left unscathed.
Gigaba made an example of a large supermarket group that had employed 63 people without documentation.