Frightened employees of a Gauteng company took cover as certain balaclava-disguised Moja Love crew members filming the show X-Deport blitzed into their company premises and ordered staff at gunpoint to stop working while demanding papers from those they suspected to be illegal immigrants.
The shocking incident allegedly occurred at Allbro Industries in Boksburg on 16 October 2025.
Allbro Industries has filed papers in the Joburg High Court where it seeks an urgent interdict to stop Moja Love from further broadcasting the episode, which was aired on 19 July 2026.
Siyaya Free to Air TV, which owns the Moja Love , has been cited as the first respondent; Moja TV Channels as the second respondent; Moja Love and the foundation owned by its chief executive officer, Aubrey Tau, as the third respondents; and MultiChoice South Africa, on whose DStv platform the Moja Love channel is broadcast, as the fourth respondent.
In his founding affidavit, Allbro Financial Manager Llewellyn Herman said that on 16 October 2025, at approximately 14:20, five vehicles entered the company’s premises at Extension 32, 121 13th Avenue, Anderbolt, Boksburg, Gauteng, without permission or prior notice.
A squad of approximately 22 imposters, most wearing balaclavas or facial coverings and without marked uniforms, disembarked and searched through the premises for the company’s staff and management personnel.
Those carrying firearms instructed the company’s employees, at gunpoint, to stop working, while others with cameras and recording devices filmed the events.
“Some of the applicant’s staff members hid, believing that an armed robbery was in progress. Others whom the imposters had found were instructed by the imposters to gather at the premises driveway. Once all the applicant’s staff members and management team were gathered at the premises driveway, the imposters demanded that the applicant’s Managing Director, Quintin Lamprecht, and the rest of the applicant’s management team identify all foreign national employees and produce, on demand and without a warrant, the documentation evidencing those foreign national employees’ right to work in South Africa,” read the papers.
Herman said he, Quintin, as well as the company management team, refused to comply with their instruction in the absence of a warrant and requested that the imposters identify themselves.
He said they made it clear to the imposters that the staff members who are foreign nationals possess the requisite documentation to be employed in South Africa.
“The imposters, frustrated by our non-compliance with their demands, became visibly agitated and aggressive.
“They refused to identify themselves and threatened to arrest Quintin and the rest of the applicant’s management personnel, including myself, if they persisted in what the imposters described as obstructing justice. They declared that the applicant’s foreign employees must board an unmarked bus to have their documentation verified at a police station and would face repercussions if they refused,” read the papers.
Herman said he, Quintin and the entity’s management team refused to permit this and persisted in demanding that the imposters disclose their identities and badges.
He said certain individuals briefly displayed what appeared to be South African Police Service (SAPS) badges but would not permit their inspection.
“Thankfully, SAPS arrived before the applicant’s foreign national employees were forced onto the bus. On SAPS’ arrival, certain of the imposters admitted that they were actually private persons associated with the first respondent (Siyaya TV), and were conducting a search of the premises purportedly under Section 43 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act,” read the papers.
Herman said this was never communicated to them.
“Quintin only became aware of it by overhearing the exchange between SAPS and the now-identified individuals. The SAPS officers demanded that all these individuals vacate the premises. In doing so, one of their number threatened Quintin, saying that the applicant had ‘won the first round’ but that they would return.
“It was apparent then that the incident, as described above, had been perversely staged, filmed, and was possibly intended to be broadcast on television and/or social media,” read the papers.
Enraged by the incident, which had left several of their employees in shock and distress, Quintin immediately sought legal assistance from the company’s attorneys of record, Jagga and Associates.
On 18 October 2025, after Quintin consulted with Jagga and Associates, an urgent letter was addressed to, among others, Moja Love and the MultiChoice legal department complaining about the incident and alleging that the crew had gained access to the company’s premises illegally and filmed the company to degrade the company management, its employees and the entity.
Herman says after the incident, they received written undertakings in October 2025 from Moja Love’s chief legal officer, Tumi Sole, stating that the episode would not be broadcast, no related footage would be distributed and that the footage had been deleted. He says the company relied on those undertakings and decided not to pursue urgent legal action at the time.
However, he says, Episode 12 of X-Deport was broadcast on Moja Love on 19 July 2026 and that promotional clips were subsequently shared on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.
He says the programme falsely portrays their company as employing undocumented foreign nationals, participating in unlawful labour practices and obstructing a lawful investigation. It further claims the continued circulation of the programme and its promotional material poses a risk of reputational damage and could expose its business and employees to xenophobic attacks.
In the urgent application, he says, Allbro is seeking an order interdicting the Moja Love from further broadcasting or distributing the episode and related footage, compelling them to remove it from all platforms under their control, hand over copies of the footage, destroy electronic copies and prevent any further filming or entry onto its premises without written consent.
The company is also seeking a punitive costs order against the Siyaya TV and Moja Love.
The court papers note that the respondents’ legal representatives wrote to Allbro on 29 July in an attempt to resolve the matter amicably, while MultiChoice South Africa, which is cited because Moja Love is carried on the DStv platform, has filed a notice to abide by the court’s decision.
The allegations contained in the application have not yet been tested in court. The matter is expected to be heard in the Johannesburg High Court on 4 August.
