Gauteng Provincial Legislature to debate xenophobic attacks
28 April 2015 - 11:12
The Gauteng Provincial Legislature (GPL) will convene on Tuesday for a special sitting to “debate and set a stance on xenophobic acts”. This follows last week’s peace march‚ where Gauteng Premier committed “to pay special attention to immigrants and further set up a special unit that will focus on immigration matters”‚ a GPL statement said on Monday.“The debate is intended to unpack the incongruities emanating from these acts and other related incidents…to find resolutions and commonalities on how the legislature…[can] reach a common ground in better dealing with these issues henceforth‚” the statement read...
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