Nigerians, Malawians pose as Zims

person for the Gauteng Province, Mary Martins Engelbrecht, who said while the indications of the assertion were true, she could not give figures.
The CAJ News Crew conducted a survey in which it established that most illegal immigrants from the countries of Nigeria and Malawi vehemently denied any ties with their countries of nationality fearing repatriation back home.
“If we claim to be Zimbabweans the South African Home Affairs people and the police can only take us as far as the Beitbridge border post, and we can easily retrace our way back into South Africa,” said Nnamdi Abiola, a Nigerian who has overstayed and is now in SA as an illegal immigrant.
Aleke Banda from Malawi said that the chances of making it back to SA were slim if one was deported further north.
“It becomes very costly to try and come back to SA once you are deported back home. You have to cross many borders to get back into SA and the chances of not making it are just too much,” he said.
Meanwhile, Zimbabweans in SA are calling on the police to be very thorough when they vet illegal immigrants on their nationalities, as Zimbabweans are now going into the records for all the wrong reasons.
“When the statistics come out, it will always be Zimbabwe that has the highest number of nationals deported every time that an operation is carried out,” said Stephan Moyo, a Zimbabwean in Johannesburg.
The Home Affairs department could not be reached for comment as to how they dealt with issues of cheating on nationality by illegal immigrants caught in SA.- CAJ News