I told the minister of labor in Tshipise I don’t want us to employ Zimbabweans. They come on the farms overnight and stay with friends; then they go to Johannesburg. They are putting pressure on crime and the social system. Ask the police. Many pregnant Zimbabwean women come here to have a child. They can get a grant of R 190 per month per child. I grew up on a farm. They [Africans] are lazy. Where they can get money for free, they will. The main problem is the security threat. They [undocumented foreigners] can’t be traced because they don’t have fingerprints. Police are arresting Zimbabweans for crime and illegal immigration. We don’t want them in front of the mountain and we want to get rid of the stepping stone [foreign migrants using farm work as a stepping stone to get to Johannesburg]. I want this area clean of Zimbabweans. Local crime syndicates are using Zimbabweans to achieve their aim. From Levubu to around town [Makhado/Louis Trichardt], we try to avoid them. I don’t have any..... If they are walking around on the farm, Farm Watch will arrest them and take them to the police. Sometimes we’ll get police involved. We’ll tell them where Zimbabweans are, etc. and they’ll go and raid them. Despite this farmer’s opposition to the use of Zimbabwean labor, he said many contractors, on whom Levubu farmers increasingly rely, did use undocumented Zimbabwean workers. “Why must I police the contractor? The department of labor must. In practice, farmers are not checking on contractors. You sign a contract that he’ll meet all labor laws but he doesn’t.” —Human Rights Watch interview with a white farmer and TAU official, Levubu, April 29, 2006 A Bluegumspoort farmer said, “We’ve cleaned them [Zimbabweans] out in Bluegumspoort because they are an extreme danger. They killed the Haywards [owners of Mountain View Lodge]. We only clean out those without work permits. They kill the people, they rob; they threaten the Venda. Venda are now working with us to get rid of them.” The wife of a farmer interjected: “Venda, if they see a Zimbabwean, they stone them.” —Human Rights Watch interview with a white farmer and lawyer, Makhado/Louis Trichardt, April 25, 2006 13 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH VOLUME 18, NO. 6(A)