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File Photo: Operation Dudula members during a march.
Civic organisation Operation Dudula claims that its recent mobilisation to prevent foreign nationals from accessing health care facilities around the country, is a crime prevention measure.
Dudula president Zandile Dabula says their actions are a result of failed attempts to engage government on the strain on the country’s resources, caused by an influx of undocumented migrants.
Dabula says they have also uncovered criminal activity, relating to medication dispensed to foreign nationals, at public hospitals.
[WATCH] Wits School of Governance Professor Alex van den Heever says it’s illegal to block illegal immigrants from seeking medical care at clinics. This comes after anti-migrant groups, including Operation Dudula, blocked undocumented migrants from entering clinics in cities like… pic.twitter.com/dwgaW1WdfN
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“This has a bad impact on us as citizens of this country, because we are the taxpayers- and these non-South Africans, most of them are illegal and they don’t pay tax. So, they are using our facilities, nobody is saying anything about it. If you suspect that there’s a criminal activity happening there, then you’ll need to act as a citizen- so what we have been doing, is that we have been visiting these clinics, because what we know is that they’re undocumented- collect medication from different health care facilities, and they go and sell them in their countries of birth. We have seen that in the past month, there was a bus, going to Zimbabwe, that had medication. They’re taking advantage, cause they know that the system is not talking to each other.”
