ANC Gauteng co-convenor Panyaza Lesufi at Cedarwoods in Johannesburg, 3 December 2025, during its 16th regional conference. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/ The Citizen Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi has highlighted illegal immigration as a concern the ANC must address. He was speaking at the opening of the 16thANC Greater Johannesburg regional conference on Wednesday.
“We cannot have people that we do not know who they are, we do not have their fingerprints, we do not know how they came to our country to do as they wish here. “Our people are now sending a strong message that these people cannot be forever in our country unless they followed the right path to enter our country. If they did not follow the right door they must go out the same way they came in,” he said.
Lesufi said despite some political parties using illegal migration as a focal point of their campaign, there are indications that communities still want the ANC to lead. “They thought that they could contest us on this issue of illegal immigrants, but our people did not vote for them because they understand that the ANC has the ability to deal with these things. “You do not just close clinics, you cannot just close schools and you cannot also come to G20 and think that you can disrupt it because you have an issue that you want to raise.
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The issue of undocumented people that cannot be accounted for is an issue that we need to tackle,” he said. Lesufi said it is of concern that some undocumentedimmigrants are behind some criminal activitiesin the country. He said the fact that they entered illegally can make them hard to trace.
“Two of our policemen were gunned down by people whom we do not know how they entered our country,” he said. Lesufi said the other issue that South Africans were asking the ANC to deal with is corruption. He said if the party does not deal with this matter “it is the end of the road”.
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