By Daniel Itai.
Cape Town, South Africa. – (News of The South) – South Africa’s opposition party, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is planning to introduce a new bill proposing the rationing of jobs where businesses will be forced to prioritise South Africans over foreign nationals.
The party suggested that the proposed quota would be 80:20 with businesses obligated to ensure that at least 80 percent of those employed by them are South Africans.
“We are not saying that foreign nationals cannot access job opportunities in SA. What we are saying is that it’s a reality that the department of home affairs and the department of employment and labour do not have capacity to enforce our immigration laws.
The call will be SA jobs for SA people, thereby ensuring that the limited jobs that are available in SA will be opened up for South African people first whether it’s people looking for jobs as waitrons, in the hair salon or in the trucking industry.
I would argue very strongly that this is not xenophobic but I would say that our proposal would actually solve the xenophobic attacks.
The argument of our people is that foreign nationals are taking our jobs, but once you bring about a more structured way of employing foreign nationals and South Africans, and you have got a proper quota system which prioritises South Africans and leaving room for foreign nationals to work and prosper in SA, it would eliminate some of the xenophobic attacks we have seen in the past,” said IFP MP Liezl van der Merwe.
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