Impact Forum, a civic movement, condemned people who demand to see identification from those they suspect are in the country illegally and called for the Department of Home Affairs to hire 10,000 immigration officers.

Civic movement Impact Forum has condemned people who demand to see identification from those they suspect are in South Africa illegally, calling the practice unlawful.

Organisation leader Rollance Mabula said this during a Tuesday media briefing outside the Department of Home Affairs in Pretoria.

He spoke after his organisation called off a planned march on Tuesday demanding 10,000 new immigration officers at the department following a meeting with senior department officials on Monday night.

He said the purpose of the planned march was to get feedback from the department following the forum’s march on May 5.