A suggestion by the recently elected City of Joburg Mayor, Dada Morero, to have Africa’s wealthiest municipality employ documented foreign nationals in law enforcement has been rejected.
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi announced on his X account that Morero’s suggestion has been rejected. Lesufi said the ANC Johannesburg Lekgotla poured cold water on Morero’s idea. Morero is also the regional chairperson of the ANC in Johannesburg,Â
Lesufi’s statement comes after a video of Morero emerged on X. In the video, he suggested that documented foreign nationals should be hired by the Johannesburg Metro Police Department. Morero said this would assist law enforcement in dealing with language barriers when arresting foreign nationals.
Our police officers can’t speak African foreign languages
In the short video clip, Morero says: “Comrade chair, deputy chair, I always ask this question that none of our police men and women in uniform can speak any of the foreign African languages.
“And the challenge is for us to deal with crime. And you can have all your suspects here before they write their statements, they can plan what they are going to say in front of you without you even hearing what they are saying.
“It might be a culture shock to suggest to this REC but if we are serious about fighting crime in Ward 67, we have no option but those who are properly documented with proper documents can be recruited to the Johannesburg Metro Police Department.
Apologies for pain the proposal caused
Lesufi, however, said on his social media account that Morero’s suggestion had received a cold reception within the party structure.
“We don’t agree with this proposal,” said Lesufi.
“We held discussions with our Regional Chairperson and Executive Mayor
@CdeDada who advised us that the ANC Johannesburg Lekgotla rejected his proposal and he fully accepts the decision not to entertain this proposal further.
“We remain committed to ensure that our law enforcement agencies are appropriately trained to tackle challenges created by crime. Our sincerest apologies for the confusion and pain caused by this proposal,” said Lesufi.
I think it’s good to have only 5 foreigners of different countries as intoregators each of them whom will be assigned with accompanied buy 1 of each JMPD ops and SAPS CID and and those foreigners must obtain a clean police background swan to court and qualifications of the 2 specific language of there origin country thnxs
I think Morero is smoking his socks. Good that his suggestion was shot down. It was going to cause war by the unemployed South Africans who are hoping to be employed by JMPD.
trur what about unemploed South Africans who have been applying for same jobs.
this mayor guy is not serious, so in other words he is saying language barrier is the reason why the crime rate is high in his region. Johannesburg is over populated with foreigners and they do as they wish, he should send them back to their countries
This mayor kodwa haibo
True, this mayor is clearly out of his senses. Why out of the repairs and fixes of the previous mistakes then yena comes with this dom idea…
He is smoking VIM if he knows what that is… Under such current Unemployment rate.. I even doubt if the guy deserves this portfolio…
I think he should be removed immediately before causing more damage…
Incompetence at its best please lets all remove this dude thats a big No
Ngiyaqala ukubona imeya edakwa insangu kanje
Why should we consider other countries worried about their languages while our country is falling apart we have already 9 languages in our country now you want to add more to accommodate criminals in our country worse you give them authority to work together with their police in our country. Already you drop down our country but now you destroy it all pls don’t kill us and kill our children they deserve to live freely please
I think the mayor must be removed with motion of no confidence. Period.
Please check if Morero is not a foreigner himself