Betting company manager arrested on suspicion of employing undocumented foreign nationals

JOHANNESBURG - A manager of a betting company in Sunnyside, Pretoria has been arrested on suspicion of employing undocumented foreign nationals.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) and several other law enforcement agencies conducted several compliance raids in the city centre. 

Police said they received a tip-off, that the bet exchange branch in Sunnyside is employing undocumented foreign nationals.

The TMPD was accompanied by labour inspectors and home affairs immigration officials.

"You can see the conditions these people are working in and we found the documents are not compliant. We found they are employing undocumented immigrants. We also found they didn’t have a working permit. We also found two people hiding in the toilet but they were customers who were undocumented immigrants," said Tshwane metro police chief Yolande Faro.

Faro said more of these unannounced multi-agency raids will be conducted in other parts of the capital.