#FirstThingsFirst - Mayor Morero causes furore over suggesting hiring documented foreign nationals as JMPD officers

Newly appointed Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero has ruffled feathers and caused outage with a suggestion to have South Africa’s economic hub employ documented foreign nationals in law enforcement to assist with curbing crime in Gauteng. Morero came under fire after a video clips of him from a REC lekgotla went viral on social media suggesting that documented foreign nationals should be hired by the JMPD. He has since retracted and revealed that the proposal was rejected by the lekgotla. The team deliberated on Morero’s utterances.