Lesufi Laments Large Number Of Undocumented Foreigners In Gauteng

ANC Gauteng Chairperson Panyaza Lesufi says over 65 percent of residents in the Marry Me informal settlement in Pretoria are undocumented foreign nationals.

The area gained prominence after six community patrollers were killed in a brutal attack.

He was speaking on the first day of the two-day African National Congress ANC Gauteng Provincial Task Team PTT Lekgotla at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways.

He was sharing his experience at an informal settlement in Pretoria where Lesufi says situations like these should be allowed to prevail in the country.

I went to an area called, Marry Me and I can tell you its not Marry Me alone. There are many other similar things that are like Marry Me. We cant have an informal settlement where over 65 percent of its citizens are undocumented foreign citizens in our own country. It must come to an end we must be very firm. There is no country that can agree that you have people that you dont know who they are, where they come from, where they sleep, what they do, and they are in our country doing as they wish. We must be very firm you document yourself or you leave us in peace, says Lesufi.