Civic organisation Operation Dudula claims that its recent mobilisation to prevent foreign nationals from accessing health care facilities around the country, is a crime prevention measure.
Dudula president Zandile Dabula says their actions are a result of failed attempts to engage government on the strain on the countrys resources, caused by an influx of undocumented migrants.
Dabula says they have also uncovered criminal activity, relating to medication dispensed to foreign nationals, at public hospitals.
This has a bad impact on us as citizens of this country, because we are the taxpayers- and these non-South Africans, most of them are illegal and they dont pay tax. So, they are using our facilities, nobody is saying anything about it. If you suspect that theres a criminal activity happening there, then youll need to act as a citizen- so what we have been doing, is that we have been visiting these clinics, because what we know is that theyre undocumented- collect medication from different health care facilities, and they go and sell them in their countries of birth. We have seen that in the past month, there was a bus, going to Zimbabwe, that had medication. Theyre taking advantage, cause they know that the system is not talking to each other.