The ANC wants government to reserve jobs for South Africans ahead of foreigners as the party endorsed minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s proposals for stricter immigration laws.
The Citizenship Act and Births and Deaths Registration Act must be repealed in their entirely and included in a single piece of legislation dealing with citizenship, immigration and refugee protection.
Layani Mkansi thought he would have the world at his feet one day after bagging five distinctions in the matric exams in 2021. But the 20-year-old, who would have qualified for medicine or engineering at university cannot enroll because he does not have an identity document.