35 000 border jumpers arrested
CLOSE to 35 000 people have been arrested this year for cross border related crimes.
Police on January 7 launched operation “no to cross border crimes/ amacala kawaphele emingceleni elizwe/ mhosva pamiganhu ngadzipere” in a bid to curb criminal activities at the borders.
In a statement police confirmed the arrests.
“I know it’s not compulsory, it’s up to each individual but it makes sense when you look at statistics of what is happening. We don’t seem to have a way out and the way out is vaccination. It will boost us as an industry.
“We will definitely have all our employees back at work, it will boost productivity and within a couple of months we may be able to go back to normal.”
“On 18 July police arrested 206 people for cross border related crimes. A total of 34 839 people have been arrested since the inception of operation “amacala kawaphele emingceleni yelizwe/no to cross border crimes/mhosva pamiganhu ngadzipere,” said the police.
The country has seen an upsurge of cross border crimes during the Covid19 period. With borders closed for the general public, some people have resorted to smuggling goods and border jumping.—@ DubeMatutu at the TNF but as a labour body, I’m aware of the campaigns that have been done by other federations.
“For instance, in South Africa, Cosatu has made it clear that they expect the citizens to be vaccinated, it is because of the conversations that they had with social partners. There is an agreement at national level that let’s get everyone vaccinated,” said Mr Moyo.—@ nqotshili