How does the immigration issues affect the hiring of domestic workers.
Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit · 3 July 2026 · 10m
Speaker 1: many Cape Talk listeners. I don't know how many South African employers of domestic workers Speaker 1: who are doing mainly sort of household cleaning, work in ironing, and also nannying or Speaker 1: just exclusively nannying, and people who work in gardens and so on. When I've discussed Speaker 1: this before, quite a few people who do employ nationals from other countries, mostly from Speaker 1: Zimbabwe and Malawi, some take great efforts to make sure that they only employ people Speaker 1: who have the correct documentation. Others seem less concerned about that, and we can speculate Speaker 1: on the motives why. And I don't know whether any of those families that employ Speaker 1: scared home by what has been happening in South Africa and what is threatened and Speaker 1: promised to happen in South Africa still over the next months. I do know that Speaker 1: there is legislation pending, something called the Employment Services Amendment Bill, that proposes a one Speaker 1: hundred thousand rand fine for employing an undocumented foreign national. The current fine is twenty Speaker 1: that that is a fine that they could face, and there's also imprisonment as part Speaker 1: of this legislation that's pending legislation. You can go to jail for employing an undocumented Speaker 1: foreigner and you have to make sure that the foreigners documented foreigners that you are Speaker 1: applying for to employ are in the scarce skills category. And I'm not sure given Speaker 1: necessary because there aren't the skills in the South African market for that job. Larandi Speaker 1: Creole is the CEO of sweep South South Africa, which is an organization that, amongst Speaker 1: other things, places domestic workers and nannies with Cape…
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