In a live broadcast aired by the state broadcaster, SABC News, and monitored by SaharaReporters, Mbalula stated that the party completely rejects the criminal syndicate-led operations hiding behind the national migration debate to orchestrate hate crimes, extortion, and systemic looting.
As tensions boil over in South Africa’s commercial hubs and local townships, the Secretary-General of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Fikile Mbalula, has issued a fierce condemnation of the escalating violence, unlawful profiling, and vigilantism targeted at foreign nationals.
In a live broadcast aired by the state broadcaster, SABC News, and monitored by SaharaReporters, Mbalula stated that the party completely rejects the criminal syndicate-led operations hiding behind the national migration debate to orchestrate hate crimes, extortion, and systemic looting.
The ANC scribe warned that the country is witnessing an organised, cross-racial cartel pretending to protect South African borders while running extortion rackets on poor market traders and terrorizing vulnerable patients inside public medical clinics.
Addressing a packed auditorium of party loyalists, Mbalula urged the political movement to speak honestly on the migration question, which he acknowledged has been "allowed to fester" for too long by relevant state authorities.
