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FACT CHECK: Does SA really have 15 million illegal migrants? By senior researcher Cayley Clifford In March 2021, the hashtag #15MillionIllegalMigrants appeared on Twitter, with claims that there were 15 million illegal migrants in South Africa. One tweet shows a screenshot of a document that claims South Africa has “just over 15 million unregistered or undocumented people”. Another has a screenshot of a November 2020 tweet by Herman Mashaba, former mayor of Johannesburg, in which he claimed there were 15 million “undocumented foreigners” in South Africa. Africa Check fact checked Mashaba’s tweet, and found no evidence for the 15 million figure. Three months later, there’s still no evidence. ....
PHOTO: Allan Baxter/Getty Images More and more people have been moving inside and into South Africa for work as opposed to moving for a job they had already secured. About one in five internal migrants and about one in three immigrants moved to look for work, or to start a business. Xenophobia is a function of ineffective labour migration governance. More and more people have been moving inside and into South Africa for work as opposed to moving for a job that they had already secured, an official from StatsSA has said. Diego Iturralde, chief director, demography and population statistics, told an Institute for Security Studies (ISS) webinar this week that about one in five internal migrants and about one in three immigrants moved to look for work, or to start a business. ....
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Mboweni claim not supported by data December 27, 2020 in Local In April 2020 South African finance minister Tito Mboweni made a startling claim about the number of foreigners working in South Africa’s restaurant industry. When he returned from exile in 1990, he said, eight in 10 restaurant workers were South African. “The other two were probably Malawian or Zimbabwean. Today almost 100% are non-South African.” The claim resurfaced in October 2020 when the Economic Freedom Fighters, South Africa’s second-largest opposition party, called on businesses to ensure that at least 60% of their staff were South African citizens. Is there any evidence for Mboweni’s claim? We took a closer look. ....