Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has criticised the government's Operation Fiela, urging tighter border controls instead. Maimane said the government needed to spend less on VIP protection for politicians and more on tightening borders."There are more security VIPs for politicians than there are on our borders," he told a cheering crowd yesterday in Mitchells Plain.Fiela (which means "reclaim") is an operation by the army and the police targeting crime in townships , following xenophobic violence last month.Maimane interacted with residents and DA supporters as part of a nationwidetour."It kind of is a bit of misnomer when you go to a place and ask people such a violating question, such as 'do you speak Zulu or not?', as if that must be the only prudent way of testing that the person is from home," he told journalists.Maimane, flanked by MECs Bongikosi Madikizela, Dan Plato and Nomafrench Mbombo and mayor Patricia de Lille, asked residents about their concerns.He told them that while South Africans celebrated Africa Day on Monday, the government said that to commemorate the day "we must also have Operation Fiela" - which moved people out of the country."President Zuma's government likes to pay lip service to a problem . they like to stand in public and look like they are doing something, but they are not doing anything."Maimane promised that with the city's metro police and the provincial Department of Safety, criminals' days were numbered.He said young South Africans had freedom to vote, but no opportunities. "What kind of freedom is that? Cattle that are living in Nkandla, they have freedom. But our people don't have freedom."This was in apparent reference to the public protector's investigation that confirmed Zuma's Nkandla homestead had been built using state money.Maimane also called for a drug unit at Mitchells Plain police station. "We have a government that protects VIPs instead of protecting young people."..