ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula has called for urgent government action to tackle illegal immigration while rejecting calls for citizens to take the law into their own hands.
ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula says the party will not support what he described as an illegal shutdown planned for June 30, aimed at forcing undocumented foreign nationals to leave the country.
His remarks come ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa's address to the nation at 6pm on Sunday.
Ramaphosa is expected to outline the government's response to growing tensions over illegal immigration.
Speaking on the sidelines of an ANC volunteers' programme in KwaZulu-Natal, Mbalula said that while some South Africans' concerns are legitimate, the government cannot allow groups to take the law into their own hands by organising unlawful shutdowns.
