{"id":90154,"date":"2025-09-21T18:48:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/eff-accuses-operation-dudula-of-scapegoating-foreigners"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:52:23","slug":"eff-accuses-operation-dudula-of-scapegoating-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/eff-accuses-operation-dudula-of-scapegoating-foreigners","title":{"rendered":"EFF Accuses Operation Dudula of Scapegoating Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Operation Dudula has denied this, saying it never instructed its members to block access to the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has suggested that Operation Dudula is scapegoating foreign nationals for the government\u2019s failure to ensure public health facilities are working optimally.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the red berets laid a criminal case against the controversial political group and its spokesperson, Zandile Dabula, for allegedly causing the death of a one-year-old child by preventing his Malawian mother from accessing a clinic in Alexandra.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Dudula has denied this, saying it never instructed its members to block access to the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>However, Operation Dudula members have, over the past few weeks, been barricading the entrances of public healthcare facilities and turning away people they say are undocumented foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>EFF Gauteng chairperson Nkululeko Dunga said ageing infrastructure, understaffing, and corruption at public health facilities are the real problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that combination of many things, (including) corruption, are as a result of an incompetent government, mismanagement, maladministration and we all just want to defer that attention away from government and identify a sector of society which doesn\u2019t even amount to more than 5% of the population in Gauteng.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Operation Dudula has denied this, saying it never instructed its members to block access to the clinic. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has suggested that Operation Dudula is scapegoating foreign nationals for the government\u2019s failure to ensure public health facilities are working optimally. 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