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South Africa Deploys Police Units Nationwide Ahead of Anti-Immigration Marches

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In South Africa, police were deployed across major cities ahead of anti‑immigrant protests demanding that undocumented foreign nationals leave by a set deadline. The unrest led to many businesses closing, streets becoming unusually quiet, and heightened concerns among foreign residents about threats and violence.

  1. ZA
    Cyril Ramaphosa
    African National Congress Party
    1. But the right to protest ... ​does not allow people to threaten or intimidate others, or to ​engage in acts of vandalism or violence.
    2. South Africans' ... deep concerns about illegal immigration ... are real and ‌they deserve to be heard.
    3. We will not tolerate any attempts to destabilize the country by anyone, whether marching or otherwise.
    4. Whatever the motivation, taking the law into one's own hands is vigilantism.
    5. There is no place for racism, sexism, tribalism, xenophobia, Afrophobia or any other form of intolerance.
  2. ZA
    Thami Ntuli
    1. Whatever our concerns about undocumented migration, however legitimate the frustrations beneath them, we will not allow this province to be set alight a second time, whether by criminality or by xenophobia.
  3. ZA
    Firoz Cachalia
    South African Police Services
    1. We have hesitated too long to speak out clearly on this issue. There is no reason why anyone should come to a demonstration with any object that could be used as a weapon.
  4. ZA
    Tebello Mosikili
    South African Police Services
    1. The state has the duty and obligation to ensure that those that are demonstrating do so peacefully.
  5. ZA
    Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma
    March and March
    1. We are not calling for violence … No one will be killed on 30 June and no looting will take place in our name.
  6. CD
    Mabako Majole
    1. All these people are ​legal. They have documents.
    2. All ⁠these people, they were chased ​out by their landlords.
  7. ZA
    Fredson Guilengue
    1. As long as the leaders of these movements don't feel the full force of the law, they won't stop intimidating immigrants.
    2. The South African police are still viewed by the victims of these attacks as a xenophobic institution.
  8. ZA
    Dale McKinley
    1. This is a problem of governance, corruption and mismanagement.

sources

  1. 1.DW News
  2. 2.Al Jazeera
  3. 3.France 24
  4. 4.The Irish Times
  5. 5.Arab News
  6. 6.Le Monde
  7. 7.The Guardian
  8. 8.Agence France-Presse
  9. 9.News24com
  10. 10.Reuters

perspectives

  1. 1.Ethnic tensions
  2. 2.Immigration
  3. 3.South African politics

countries

  1. 1.South AfricaZA
  2. 2.MalawiMW
  3. 3.ZimbabweZW
  4. 4.GhanaGH
  5. 5.NigeriaNG
  6. 6.MozambiqueMZ
  7. 7.Congo, The Democratic Republic of theCD
  8. 8.EthiopiaET
  9. 9.UgandaUG

organizations

  1. 1.March and March
  2. 2.Operation Dudula
  3. 3.Madlanga Commission
  4. 4.South African National Defense Force
  5. 5.Statistics South Africa

persons

  1. 1.Cyril RamaphosaZA
  2. 2.Jacinta Ngobese-ZumaZA
  3. 3.Jacob ZumaZA
  4. 4.Mabako MajoleCD
  5. 5.Nelson Mandela
  6. 6.Bongani CindiZA
  7. 7.Dale McKinleyZA
  8. 8.Evelyn Chinooneka
  9. 9.Firoz CachaliaZA
  10. 10.Haru Mutasa
  11. 11.Mbuyiseli Madlanga
  12. 12.Mishack Banda

technicals

  1. 1.Zulu
  2. 2.isiZulu