They arrived on Qatar air flight from Doha on Wednesday with no luggage. The eight illegal immigrants were later arrested by police.Department of Home Affairs Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, says the Bangladeshi and Pakistani nationals used the Eswatini and Mozambique routes to enter the country through O.R Tambo International.Motsoaledi and Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, addressed the media at O.
Motsoaledi says his Department is considering reviving transit visas in an attempt to help deal with foreign nationals entering South Africa illegally through O.R Tambo International Airport. The transit visas were discontinued in 2015. The latest arrest is part of on-going efforts by Home Affairs authorities and police to punish syndicates working with foreign nationals intending to enter the country illegally. Recently, the kingpin of a syndicate, fraudulently issuing passports and other crucial documents to foreign nationals was arrested in a sting operation.
The ministers say authorities and law enforcement agencies will remain on high alert to ensure no corrupt or criminal activities take place at airports.
Someone helped them to get through those fire hydrants, find him/her/them. There's CCTV footage of these criminals landing and going through customs. Use that to cleanup the rot
fowardbow Why is South Africa being so much disrespected by foreign criminal scumbags ?
SAPoliceService PresidencyZA start with staff investigating then HomeAffairsSA please all Somalian Ethiopians Pakistan must also be deported can you do the project because they are simple to trace at their spaza shop n gathering place
The Anc has let to this ForeignNationals undermining the law Sovereign of our Country so that this useless people r chasing after what they should have prevented long time ago 'Prevention is better than cure' MYANC must be taught a lesson come ElectionsSA2024 vote Anc out
Kea91492014 What are these foreigners from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Somalia doing in SA? Do they have illegal South Africans in their countries?
Banana republic.
I think let us stop calling these ppl O my friend mximm
Kea91492014 What is so attractive about SA that the whole world wants to migrate here...one might ask. Are the locals not finding the wealth that everyone else is coming to look for? Makes you wonder 🤔
Lock up the rubbishes
There Is a police officers and immigration officials who knew about the fire hydrant path. Every crime has a public officials involved. Working at the airport is lucrative business.
Many have already passed through same way. Too late
Staff at or are obviously helping them. These are the traitors that need to be identified and dealt with.
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So all these millions of Pakistanis came through a fire hydrant and are only discovering it now?
Here they are.
OR Tambo is a national key point, isn't it? this is huge, someone needs to account!! they might be smuggling dangerous terrorists into the country via a key point, why is this not all over the news as breaking news
Post it!
We are celebrating after-incident- how long has this been going for in OR Tambo - what if some of us knew corruption haven happening for the last 20 years in OR Tambo😅