Police stop a bakkie with 14 illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe
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South African Police Services (SAPS) together with Home Affairs Department have had their hands full since late December at the Beitbridge boarder gate trying to stop illegal immigrants entering South Africa.
As the Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi was busy doing an oversight earlier this year, he also discovered some SANDF officials said they have long raised concerns about illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe coming into South Africa through the back door where some of them would allegedly pay R 2500 to jump fence.
Several immigrants were arrested as a result as some were caught along the way.
Operation Okae Molao conducted by the Police then managed to make a swift arrest recently after finding 14 illegal immigrants being transported to Gauteng.
Gauteng Police stopped a bakkie with 14 illegal immigrants, mostly women, from Zimbabwe to Gauteng.
The said illegal immigrants alleged that they each paid the driver R1500 to transport them to Johannesburg.
The driver was also arrested for bribery after he offered the law enforcement certain amount for them to be allowed to go through Operation O Kae Molao.
