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,”

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The Hawks have arrested a second foreign national in a wildlife trafficking case involving rhino horns that may have been hidden behind a fake robbery in North West province.

A 44-year-old foreign national was arrested in Heidelberg on Wednesday and was due to appear in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

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The man will appear on charges of contravening the National Environmental Management and Biodiversity Act, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation said.

The suspect was allegedly involved in “the staged theft of rhino horns at Haartebeesfontein”. The allegation suggests police believe the robbery may have been used to cover up the illegal movement of the rhino horns.

The Hawks said warrants were executed in Centurion and Heidelberg in an intelligence driven operation involving members of the Serious Organised Crime Investigation’s Wildlife Trafficking

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