Informal sector targeted in crackdown on illegal immigration
The government has tried to register informal businesses before and failed. Now it proposes having another crack at it under the guise of getting a grip on illegal immigration.
Buried away in a recent inter-ministerial committee statement on migration, the government – ostensibly to get a grip on illegal migration – is looking at ways to register small businesses and the informal sector.
That seems innocent enough, since foreign ownership of small township businesses is one of the key complaints from anti-immigrant groups like March and March that are calling for illegal foreigners to leave the country by 30 June.
