About 600 Mozambican nationals illegally living in South Africa are being deported back to their country every week, government officials said on Friday.
According to a statement, ”most of the people normally coming to South Africa stay for more than a planned 30 days, breaking the visa agreements between the two countries signed in 2005”.
”Other migrants use the transport networks to illegally jump the border into South Africa,” the statement said.
A report by the International Migration Organisation (IMO) said that many Mozambicans had been illegally trafficked into South Africa by underground mafia networks promising them a better life.
”One thousand women, mostly minors under the age of 18, have been forcefully trafficked against their will into neighbouring countries to be used for prostitution,” the report reads. — AFP
