Operation Dudula Currently Marching In Durban
On Sunday, almost 100 people braved the rain in Durban for an Operation Dudula march.
The march is being held to commemorate the start of Operation Dudula in KwaZulu-Natal. Marchers began at City Hall and marched to the Point police station in South Beach, where they will present police authorities with a memorandum of demands.
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The march will be accompanied by a large police presence. Foreign-owned businesses in and surrounding the Workshop flea market, which is located just across the street from City Hall, are closed.
They would not be marching to the home affairs office, as previously stated, according to deputy chairperson Dan Radebe. “We were supposed to start at Home Affairs but since it’s Sunday they agreed that they will send someone to the Point police station to receive the memorandum on their behalf,” he said.
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“We want them to remove illegal immigrants in the country. It’s their job, we’re not going to do their job for them.”
Radebe said it’s important for Dudula to make its presence felt in Durban because it is the entry point for “fake foreign goods”.
“Durban becomes a critical point of KZN because we know it houses the busiest harbour in the Southern African Development Community,” he said. “That is the very same harbour they are using as the point of entry for all the fake goods that have flooded our country, killing our textile industry which then affects the unemployment rate as well.”
“Ramaphosa, siyabuza ubani owabulala abafwethu eMarikana?” – the #OperationDudula crowd sings.
(Ramaphosa, we are asking you who killed our brothers in Marikana?) pic.twitter.com/Wpk3mfddci
— 1KZNTV News (@1KZNtvNews) April 10, 2022
