MK Party backs March and March

MK Party secretary-general Sibonelo Nomvalo

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party is fully behind the March and March movement, which has been calling for undocumented foreigners to leave the country, MK Party secretary-general Sibonelo Nomvalo says.

March and March has given undocumented foreigners until 30 June to leave the country. If they fail to do so, the organisation plans to hold a national shutdown in a bid to send them back to their countries of origin.

In a media briefing on Thursday, Nomvalo told journalists that undocumented foreigners have taken over parts of towns and cities and reduced them to centres of crime.

“There are areas which have been surrendered by South Africans because of illegal immigrants. Our understanding is that March and March are not fighting legal immigrants. They are fighting against people who have broken the law. If you are called an illegal immigrant, it means you have broken the law because you are here illegally,” he said.