{"id":90246,"date":"2025-09-22T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/operation-dudula-maintains-pressure-on-undocumented-foreigners"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:43:18","slug":"operation-dudula-maintains-pressure-on-undocumented-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/operation-dudula-maintains-pressure-on-undocumented-foreigners","title":{"rendered":"Operation Dudula Maintains Pressure on Undocumented Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Operation Dudula has stated that it has no plans to taper down its &#8220;unlawful&#8221; exercise of preventing what they say are undocumented foreign nationals from accessing public healthcare facilities.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite a passionate plea to the organisation by the Gauteng Health MEC, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko, following the death of a one-year-old child.<\/p>\n<p>The child died after his Malawian mother, Grace Banda, was allegedly prevented by Operation Dudula members from accessing the Alexandra Clinic in Johannesburg last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just say to all those that are blocking access to the institutions, can they think about their children that are going to die like this one that the journalist is asking me about now, which I am unable even to answer how would I feel if it was my grandchild,&#8221; Nkomo-Ralehoko pleaded.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking in Soweto, Operation Dudula\u2019s leader, Zandile Dabula, said the organisation will not stop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not tapering down. 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