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Foreigners Forced to Flee South Africa Amid Anti-Migrant Mobs
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Hundreds of foreign nationals have fled South Africa amid violent anti‑migrant mobs. At least five Mozambican nationals have been reported dead, with roughly 300 returning to Mozambique. In response, Ghana and Nigeria have arranged emergency repatriation flights.
Some of them lost their passports because of the beatings and being dragged out of their houses.
They were dragging people out of their houses... whether you are legal or illegal, they say they don't want any foreign nationals in the township.
We just stayed in the bush until six in the morning.
They just chased us away like dogs... that is unfair because, actually, I'm a human being.
I said, 'no, I got documents to be here in South Africa'. They didn't want to know.
They said 'you are a foreigner, you don't belong in South Africa, so you must go'.
They're taking pangas... dangerous tools. They can hunt someone.
So we came out in the night hours, we went to the bush. There's a mountain up there, we slept there.
The thieves, they have already taken all our stuff at home, so we don't have anything. But it's better to go home without anything than to lose our lives.
