KZN municipality issues formal directive to landlords over undocumented foreigners

By Sihle Mavuso

Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality has ordered Estcourt property owners to stop leasing premises to undocumented foreign nationals operating businesses unlawfully, after Mayor Mduduzi Tholumuzi Myeza vowed a post-Easter crackdown in the KwaZulu-Natal town.

The directive, dated 7 April, was issued after Myeza said that after the Easter long weekend the municipality would embark on an official campaign targeting undocumented foreign nationals in the area.

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“After the Easter holidays we will face foreign nationals head on, their time is over, especially in town (Estcourt). I have heard that some of them say they are not going anywhere, we will see who shall have the last word on the matter,” Myeza said in a post on his official Facebook account.

“Those people who are owning the buildings, particularly in town, they must stop giving the illegal foreigners buildings,”