Protestors from around Cape Town gathered next to CapeGate Shopping Centre to hand over a memorandum to employers at the centre and other nearby shops on Friday.
In the memorandum, employers were prompted only to hire foreign nationals on the basis of them having critical or rare skills in terms of immigration and labour legislation.
People affiliated to the Western Cape branch of Operation Dudula (Dudula means “force out”) demanded that those with foreign nationals as employees need reserve these jobs, which are mostly low-earning positions, for South Africans only, particularly the youth.
They also demanded a prohibition against the hiring of illegal immigrants.
“We have educated and skilled youth who cannot find jobs because employers choose to hire foreign nationals without documents for whom they need not comply to minimum wages or basic conditions of employment. It is all about cheap labour,” says the organiser of the march Vuyo Tshongweni.
