SOUTH AFRICA ON EDGE? INSIDE THE GROWING MIGRANT TENSIONS SHAKING AFRICA

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]South Africa stands on the brink of another wave of xenophobic violence as vigilante groups like March and March issue a chilling June 30th deadline.

[00:00:09]Leave or face the consequences.

[00:00:12]Foreign nationals, mostly fellow black Africans, are sleeping in police stations for protection with threats of burning people alive with tires and looting shops. What happens if they don't go? If they don't go, they'll get a piece of this.

[00:00:28]By the way, and their shops will be looted. But I'm also a foreigner in your country.

[00:00:34]I'm British and I'm working in your country. Yes. Does that mean you'd attack me? No, cuz you are not doing the bad things.

[00:00:42]>> These people, they are accepting small money. So, they are ruining us in each and every side of ours. We attack them with knives, everything, my machetes, man, because we are very, very angry because we can't accept that. And what makes you think that's okay to attack another human being with a machete?

[00:01:01]Because these people, if they attack us also later, they use these things, they use cars. They also blame the foreigners for the high crime rate and their version of justice is meted out pretty quickly.

[00:01:15]Paraffin is easy to catch fire. It's flammable. If I put it on the tire, the tire is what? It's catching fire.

[00:01:22]Really, I put >> And you'll put this on on the person.

[00:01:24]And while we are beating you, you are very weak, I get it. You can't fight back. By the way, even though even even I can take this tire, by the way, and tweak it to you like this. You are very weak. Let me say this, foreigners must go. Why are African brothers turning on each other in the continent's most advanced economy?

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[00:01:48]>> [music] >> Roughly about over a hundred foreign nationals who are outside the Durban police station saying that they are seeking refuge because they have been chased away from their respective communities. Some say they were even threatened and they came here yesterday.

[00:02:04]They said they have opened up a case and they just want clarity from police with regards to whether they can return to some of their communities. But to speak to us more about this issue, I'm going to rope in one of the leaders of this particular group of people, Mr. Coco. Mr. Coco, if you can just step forward, thank you, sir. Just talk to us about the reasoning why you here. I know you and I had a conversation off air where you said that many of the community members here have been chased away from their respective homes because they are working as tuck shop owners and within that community they are not happy with some of the foreign nationals working there.

[00:02:47]Okay, thank you for asking me. We came here for protection.

[00:02:52]This is our mobile to be here.

[00:02:55]Because we was attack.

[00:02:57]We working.

[00:02:59]And we see like only one refuge we can go is to come here to police to get the protection.

[00:03:07]This is our mobile to come here. From yesterday Friday we was here.

[00:03:13]We was opening the case.

[00:03:16]But until now the the number of the case number is not coming out. We don't know what reason.

[00:03:24]But we are here only only we can say like for protection because the government is here to protect everybody.

[00:03:32]And we we are here we are from different country.

[00:03:37]From us coming from Burundi Ethiopia, Uganda Congo, DRC We are many countries here.

[00:03:50]And uh if we are here is only to say we see like uh uh is here we can get we can be safely.

[00:03:59]Secondly, is here we can get a protection.

[00:04:02]And uh from yesterday, we are sleeping here out until now we still have people they are looking.

[00:04:08]And uh the authority and the what let's say something important. You see all these people here, we are not immigrant because there is different between immigrant and refugee.

[00:04:22]We we are refugee here in South Africa.

[00:04:25]And if you are refugee, it's because in our country there is a problem.

[00:04:31]I think sometime you see to the TV how is happening to Congo and Burundi, other countries. And uh if we are here now, it's only to see if you can get uh protection from this country. And uh and government give us papers. I can show you.

[00:04:55]We are not illegally here. We got all of us we got papers. This is our status.

[00:05:02]We are not illegally.

[00:05:04]And uh all of us we are refugee. No one here is the immigrant.

[00:05:12]And uh in the law of South Africa South Africa say like uh all refugee got right like everybody, like all people. But what we see like the difference is now people start now to beat us to say "Hambani. Hambani.

[00:05:37]Hambani." We don't know what happened.

[00:05:39]And 30 on June, they say someone who going to be here in South Africa, especially here in Durban, they to start to kill us. Okay, Mr. Kekana, unfortunately we run out of time, but you and I will discuss this off air. Ayanda, basically saying there that there are throngs of people here and they are really calling on government as well as the South African Police Service to help them. I'm just going to step out of shot before I hand back to you, Ayanda, just to show you the throngs of people outside the Durban Police Station, right outside the Durban Magistrate's Court also, and filtering down into the road. Police had had their hands full in trying to uh move some of the people off the road, but still throngs and throngs are making their way here, really calling out uh for assistance, saying that they have been allegedly attacked in their respective communities. We'll see Reports indicate that in April and May 2026, the March and March Movement organized protests in cities like Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Durban against undocumented migrants. Activists confronted migrants from countries like like the DRC, Uganda, Nigeria, and others, warning them to leave before June 30th or risk uncontrolled citizen action. Videos show heated exchanges where leaders claim they cannot guarantee safety after the deadline and urge migrants to ignore government assurances. Foreigners have sought shelter at police stations in places like Durban, fearing nighttime attacks.

[00:07:06]Uh we saw earlier foreign nationals saying they were going to camp there cuz they were seeking safety. Police now dispersing them and uh they are now seeming to be involved in I don't know what we would call it, but tear gas has been used at this point. It does seem that the police are using tear gas to disperse this group of protesters. The protesters uh told us earlier, and you saw our reporting with Zikhona Tshona from the scene a few moments ago, about half an hour ago now, in which she explained that this group had arrived there uh to say that they were seeking some kind of refuge because the March and March Movement, uh which claims to be against uh foreign nationals, undocumented foreign nationals rather, uh was uh threatening them. And as a result now, the police uh removing them.

[00:07:51]We can go now to Zikhona Chona. Zikhona, uh what started this? What's happening?

[00:08:00]Well, Stephen, uh these people have been gathering outside the Durban Central Police Station since yesterday. They say to They came to call for help and ask for protection after they were threatened out of their homes.

[00:08:14]There was a deadline that was given to them by March in March to vacate their homes and businesses um on the 30th of June.

[00:08:21]The deadline is yet to come, but they're saying they fear for their lives where they live. They have been threatened.

[00:08:28]UH PEOPLE ARE GOING DOOR-TO-DOOR asking them to leave.

[00:08:32]So, now what happened? Following a meeting with UM FOLLOWING A MEETING WITH THEIR WITH THEIR LEADERS, police have then decided that they should be dispersed from camping outside the police station. A short while ago, WE SAW RUBBER BULLETS AS WELL AS TEAR GAS BEING USED um on these prote- on these people who had been gathering outside the Durban Central Police Station. We are on the M4 towards Umshlanga. Police have closed off this road because of the the people that are protesting asking for protection from them outside their police station.

[00:09:09]Zikhona, I mean, you can see this is This is very um dramatic. Um do we know what the people are saying to the police officers? Some of them are shouting at at police officers.

[00:09:24]WELL, THEY'RE SAYING THEY WILL THEY HAVE NOWHERE to go. THEY ARE UNSAFE in their homes, and they simply are ASKING FOR PROTECTION.

[00:09:33]WE CAN see in many cases the um it seems the the fear, the uh hysteria of the moment.

[00:09:42]And person very, very upset with what's happening here. I'm just I'm GOING TO TRY AND GET OUR our microphone in there because I have spoken to this lady. SHE WAS HERE SINCE SINCE YESTERDAY AND SHE WAS ASKING >> [laughter] [screaming] >> IT'S NOW JUST BECOME DISORDERLY.

[00:10:16]I'M TRYING to listen to you, BUT YOU CAN'T PUSH ME. NO, WE DON'T PUSH. LET'S GO. YES.

[00:10:23]You can see how the police is treating us LIKE WE ARE NOT HUMAN.

[00:10:27]WE ALL DESERVE RIGHTS AS HUMAN. WHETHER [laughter] WE ARE AFRICAN AFRICAN LEADER, AFRICAN LEADER. Look at how they are doing the THINGS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

[00:10:38]SO THEY HAD VOWED TO NOT LEAVE THE police station.

[00:10:42]THEY HAD VOWED TO NOT leave from the police station and this is police telling them that they have to go, forcing them out of where they'd been stationed since yesterday. After that meeting with police and their leaders, police told them that they should disperse within 20 minutes following that meeting. They had vowed to continue camping outside the police station staying in the same place. They could be But the police ARE USING FORCE NOW TO get them out of this area.

[00:11:14]In the corner we can see it's a very difficult situation. We can see emotions are running very, very high there.

[00:11:20]People very angry at this, very angry at the situation which they find themselves and the way in which they say they're being treated by police. We We haven't yet heard from the police. So just to just to explain where we are here, this is just outside the Durban Central Police Station, obviously in Durban.

[00:11:38]Earlier today over the a few days ago, in fact, the March and March movement, which uh has been accused by its critics of being xenophobic, they say that they're marching against people who are in South Africa illegally. They said that they were warning foreign nationals to vacate their homes. You've seen the protest by this movement in Durban particularly over the last few weeks. Uh we've seen then this group of foreign nationals went to the area outside the police station. They said that they were looking >> This is nothing compared to what we foresee coming uh for the country because the level of entitlement, the level of of brazenness that comes with uh the foreign nationals that we have in this country is something I've never seen in my life before. And it's it's because for the longest time they felt that um the laws of the country apply only to South Africans, and we're the only ones that need to abide by the laws of the country. I mean, who goes to a police station um if they feel like they're not safe because you go, you open a case, and if you feel like you're not safe, you find other means because we also don't feel safe um because of foreign nationals. That's why we protest on our streets, but we don't go and hang out at the police station and tell them what to do.

[00:12:52]>> what you're seeing there are images of I mean, yesterday there was a woman with a baby on her back uh with police firing tear gas and stun grenades at them.

[00:13:02]These are uh people that essentially saying they have nowhere to go. They've got their own reasons why they >> like March and March, as a result of organizations like March and March, they're unable to move freely because they say everywhere they go they're being asked to show documentation. But that's supposed to happen in every country that you visit because I've traveled across the world, and everywhere I go, I know that I have to carry my documentation. It's not like it's something that is done because they like hiding behind the banner of xenophobia. It's a normal occurrence.

[00:13:31]I'm sure you've traveled, you know, you can't travel without your documents even if you're going to the beach. You still need to carry your documents because you're in a foreign country. So, why is it a big deal if it's them? And also this thing of carrying babies on their backs, we know it's a tool that's used to to to gaslight South Africans to make them seem like they are difficult people, etc. etc. I know there was even one who was who had a plastic bag on her back to pretend as if she's carrying a baby because they know that children obviously get more protection from government and they Vigilantes have assaulted shop owners, used whips and pepper spray, and targeted African and Asian nationals.

[00:14:09]This has raised questions about enforcement.

[00:14:13]We must we must open the shop. Hey hey hey move out.

[00:14:15]>> [music] >> Hey brothers. Hey let me go.

[00:14:19]Where is the manager of the shop?

[00:14:22]Huh?

[00:14:23]Hey where is the manager of the shop?

[00:14:25]Brother, this shop must not be opened on Friday. Okay, let me let me go.

[00:14:29]>> [music] >> You have today, which is Wednesday, you have Thursday. This shop must not be opened on Friday. You must call all the Ethiopian, Somalian, and Pakistan mafias. You must tell them to bring guns like they always do for us. You must tell them. You must call them. This shop must not be opened. You must call your friends from the municipalities. You must call your police friends. No, he's taking video. You can never He's taking video. But I told him to do so.

[00:14:54]>> [music] >> Cuz I told him to do so. You're not an investor in our country.

[00:14:57]You are not an investor here.

[00:15:01]Brother, this is not allowed in our shop. Hey brothers.

[00:15:04]Hey Ethiopian brothers.

[00:15:05]Friday, this shop must not be opened >> Look at this. on Friday.

[00:15:09]This shop must be closed.

[00:15:10]You have today and tomorrow to do your business. On Friday, this shop must not be closed.

[00:15:16]>> [music] >> This shop must not be closed on Friday.

[00:15:20]This [music] shop must not be must not be open on Friday.

[00:15:26]We are not those people that you guys bribe at municipalities and giving you fake papers. This shop will never be closed will never be opened on Friday.

[00:15:34]You either listen or you don't.

[00:15:37]You are not an investor here. You came here seeking for asylum. You are not a you are not permitted to do business here.

[00:15:44]You are not permitted to do business.

[00:15:46]Unless you can prove beyond unless you can show us that you have invested Brother How is it?

[00:15:53]Shop close on Friday. Hey brother How is it?

[00:15:56]You must you must tell all these foreigners that by Friday they must not be around here.

[00:16:01]This shop must be closed on Friday.

[00:16:03]Friday?

[00:16:04]>> [music] >> Yeah.

[00:16:05]You have until today and tomorrow to do business. All foreigners, Zimbabweans, whatever, Pakistan, Somalian, whatever.

[00:16:12]All foreigners they must close. Even this shop you must close it.

[00:16:15]>> [music] >> Then you will show us that you have your 5 million that you have uh declared for our government you are an investor then you can we can be able to say no trade.

[00:16:23][music] You see we are not closing shop right because it's an investor's group. So we want to see them. So if you have declared 5 million you have declared 5 million then you can do business. No problem. No fight.

[00:16:36]>> [music] >> As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. How is it by >> [music] >> Friday you are not opening shop, man.

[00:16:47]Yeah.

[00:16:48]>> [music] >> Friday you are not opening shop. You have today you have tomorrow. Friday you don't open shop.

[00:16:53]No open shop.

[00:16:55]>> [music] >> Shop.

[00:16:56]I'm actually here with my foreign with my with my sisters and brothers.

[00:17:00]We didn't come here to waste our time or anything. The only thing we would love for the government to do for us is to give us an answer and to help us. We want a safe place. Do you understand? We not here to create any problems. We here cuz we want peace we want safety.

[00:17:16]And the things that about the the the match to match things that we've been facing. I work in the salon, they came to our salon to arrest us. They've been beating us. They're not doing match and match in peace. These people, they are coming to attack, not for them to do their match and match in peace. Them telling us on the 30th of June, which is going to be next month, they don't want any foreigner in their country. So, you as a government, what I want for you to do for us. We want you to give us answers. To to give us the answers today. We have been here, we've been sleeping with our kids. You understand?

[00:17:50]Our kids are here and sick. Even old men, old women and men are here, they are sick. But, they took their time to come and fish you outside. So, what we want from you as a government to give us answers. We are here as foreigners. Yes, we are foreigners. We accept that we are foreigners. But, we want to know what is our wrong doing. We also want to know what exactly do these people want from us. You don't want us in our country, then government, give us a solution.

[00:18:13]Give us a solution. We need protection, we need we need safety. That's all the only thing we need in this country.

[00:18:19]That's all.

[00:18:20]Nothing else.

[00:18:22]However, this is where it becomes more complex.

[00:18:26]South Africa's unemployment hovers near 33% with youth rates over 45%.

[00:18:31]Many locals blame foreigners for taking jobs, running spaza shops, and contributing to crime. Perceptions amplified by economic hardship, inequality, and post-apartheid frustrations where land and wealth remain concentrated.

[00:18:45]What is often overlooked is the historical pattern. Xenophobic outbursts in 2008 with over 60 dead, 2015, and spikes in the 2020s linked to groups like Operation Dudula.

[00:18:57]These are not isolated. They recur amid weak prosecution of perpetrators and political rhetoric that sometimes scapegoats migrants.

[00:19:05]Yet, evidence shows many targeted businesses are run by documented migrants.

[00:19:10]And violence spares non-black foreigners in some cases, revealing ugly intra-African racism.

[00:19:16]But another factor is emerging.

[00:19:18]Vigilantes claim they target illegal immigrants and criminals. Yet reports document attacks on legal residents, refugees, and even mistaken South Africans. So oh, we were not destroying anything. They just decided to use the power on women and the children who were not um um violent. And then for that reason, it endanger our life more if we can be attacked by the police themselves while we are seeking safety.

[00:19:44]So we don't trust the police, but our our safety remain into their hands.

[00:19:49]Still, we trust them with saying that they still have to do their work. We are not living here according to how people feel. They are not ready to go back on their houses where they stay. But are you not worried that sleeping outside here, whereas at least by the police station, they were officials there.

[00:20:06]Whereas here, you're just sleeping on the streets and anything can happen. Our being here for anything that can happen, I think that should be asked from the police because we went to the police station, which is the right uh the right place to seek safety. And we were attacked by the police station. They are the one who conducted us to come at this place. So whatever can happen, at least they know we were at the police station where we seek safety, and they decided that we should be on the streets.

[00:20:33]But how do you not worry that they're going to possibly remove your guns like how they did in Moons? It seem that they're just going to because they see we are animal, we are what we are seeking is the safety. And if they believe that we deserve to be killed or beaten up, women with pregnancies, they should put on the floor just for seeking safety. They can do whatever they want.

[00:20:52]What we are doing, we are asking a safety because it's been failed for so long. It's ongoing. We've been attacked, beaten. Just all these people are here.

[00:21:01]They cannot work for more than 2 months.

[00:21:04]How are they going to pay rent? It's almost end of the month. How are they going to pay rent? So, people are feeling unsafe and they also they are unable to carry their life as a normal, hence they cannot work. So, there's been conflicting reports in regards to how many people were injured. As an individual, do you have three? Can you confirm or deny how many people were taken to hospital or how many were injured? Uh so far, we are trying to monitor the number, but as I can What I can confirm, five people were taken into hospital. And as for now, we have two people who are here. We've been calling the ambulance since when we are here.

[00:21:37]There's no ambulance which has came. So, at the moment, we have a number of six people and one child. How many people or six people? No, five at hospital and one is here which who makes it to six and the one child and they were wounded.

[00:21:50]I just want to go back to this morning.

[00:21:52]This morning, police said that they asked the group to leave peacefully and there was a scuffle because the group did not want to do so. Again tonight, we're seeing that the police have asked you to disperse and the community has taken a decision to stay here.

[00:22:07]The question is not about dispersing.

[00:22:09]The question is to disperse to where?

[00:22:11]Because people are here for feeling not safe.

[00:22:15]That is the only thing which makes them here. They are not here like they are doing. You can see them. Nobody is protesting. Nobody is marching. People are here. They are seeking to be taken safety. That's the only thing. So, if the police decided to disperse them that they are not abiding by the law, what about their concern which is they are raising and they have a proof how they've been attacked and how they've been poked by knives. 15 people were poked at the same day and nothing was happening. Not even one case was opened and all of them, they visited the police station. What about that? Will you then be considering opening cases against those individuals that attacked you as the police did encourage that if people do face some form of harm at the hands of those who target them, that they encourage them to go open cases cuz people are not allowed to just go about harassing and abusing others. People can go and open cases but as many we spoke to them, we told them all those options.

[00:23:07]People are saying they are feeling it irrelevant to open cases because there is a mass case which was opened in 2021.

[00:23:15]On the same case where the members of MKVP whatever, they were harassing people at the workshop of bus rank and a case was opened. There is no result up to now. We don't know the stage of the investigations. So, people are feeling even if they can be now open cases for just because of this highlight people they have shown, now it can't help them.

[00:23:34]Nothing to resolve their problem because even the work where they were doing, some of the sites are taken by local who does not have right to do so because people were carrying their permits.

[00:23:44]Zikhona here from Newsroom Africa. So, what what would an adequate response be from police with regards to guaranteeing your safety because do you want police to go to these various areas and respond specifically to your grievances?

[00:23:57]The police they are saying it's on mouth but they are not acting on it. Even today, when they were attacking us with myself, I asked some of the police, but we are not violent. Why are you using maximum force?

[00:24:08]They told us you should go back to your country. How do you think that they can protect someone who goes on who is alone if they cannot protect the masses? What about an individual? So, the police they are just brainwashing us but we know what is in their heart. They are also part of the problem because some of the people were hurt in their presence and they did not do anything. Just one question.

[00:24:30]On my side, some of the community members here say they reside in townships and peri-urban areas. Where exactly does this group come from? Can you just give us some locations? As of my knowledge, the majority of the people who are here, they are living here in Durban Central. So, if there is a people from the location, I don't know about that. The people are here, they are documented refugee and asylum seekers who are living in Durban.

[00:24:52]Okay, just tonight just finally, what is happening with you tonight? What is happening? We are We are not certain of what is going to happen, but as the bottom line is we are sleeping here. That's what the people said they are they afraid to go back in their community, so we'll be sleeping here. And as the police said that they'll still stay here with you if you decide to sleep outside this We don't know their position. Why we send the some of our leaders to go and communicate with them on the decision of the people. So, we'll take it from there, but our decision is people will sleep here up until there is a solution of their problem. If there If there are good houses here around town, why don't they go to sleep in the house?

[00:25:31]Their problem is not there to the houses. Their problem is the people they are staying with. They've been asking them It's in We are now having a momentum that on before the 30th of June, you guys must leave the country.

[00:25:44]So, they are not feeling safe because they cannot wait that they'll be killed on the 30th of June. They have to take action now. They need safety now. They are not feeling unsafe to go back on the places where they were staying because they are told that their own neighbors are telling them, "We know you guys will have to go. Why are you not going?"

[00:26:01]That's the case.

[00:26:04]Foreigners contribute to the economy, filling labor gaps, running small businesses in townships where locals sometimes don't venture.

[00:26:12]Deporting masses won't magically create jobs or fix structural issues like education, corruption, or land reform failures. What does it say about African solidarity when the richest black majority nation exports violence to its continental neighbors instead of shared prosperity?

[00:26:29]Political dimensions reveal tensions.

[00:26:31]The ANC-led government faces coalition pressures and populist demands.

[00:26:36]Opposition and vigilante groups fill voids where state service delivery fails.

[00:26:41]Geopolitically, this strains AU relations, risks retaliatory expulsions of South Africans abroad, and damages South Africa's soft power as a continental leader.

[00:26:52]Economically, shop lootings and shutdowns disrupt trade, scare investors, and hurt the very poor communities reliant on foreign-run stores. I want this to go on record. We can stand up. The reason why we did not mobilize enough people to come here is because we are showing you that we are not fighting.

[00:27:09]We have 5,000 people ready to storm this embassy.

[00:27:14]We have 5 5,000 people ready. Police can't contain us. The police they don't have the resources and they don't have manpower to contain South Africans. We are quiet because we respect these men and women that are working for our government. We respect you as an ambassador. Please tell your people to respect us and please all illegal uh Somalis that are here in the country, we will visit all embassies. All you it is your job. Take them out of the country, send them back home because they are wasting time. Otherwise, what are you doing here? Yeah.

[00:27:48]What is the problem?

[00:27:50]IT'S A GREAT FAULT MESSAGE.

[00:27:52]THAT your people that you are grouping together saying that you are representing your SOMALIAS IN SOUTH AFRICA THAT are doing crime in all the cities of this country.

[00:28:04]All corners of they ARE THERE. ALL CORNERS OF OUR CITIES, THEY ARE THERE. THEY ARE SLEEPING IN THEIR SHOP. THEY ARE AND POISON FOOD.

[00:28:20]I'M TELLING YOU STRAIGHT RIGHT NOW. CAN YOU PLEASE BEFORE THE 30TH of June, can your all people Wow.

[00:28:36]You want to tell me what what do you want from us then? The answer. When are we going to get the answer?

[00:28:43]Sorry?

[00:28:43]It did We will we will journal where it's possible.

[00:28:47]Okay. But what what according to your a perspective point of view, is it right that what you're doing, you put our our our coat of um into your logo You you you use a national symbol. In the national symbol?

[00:29:00]Yeah. Where Where are THESE PEOPLE?

[00:29:02]WHERE ARE these people who did that? You must respond to that. We are here. You don't know. Is it the right thing [laughter] to kill your king? We are going to fight. To kill the king?

[00:29:10]That That you see, that is the problem.

[00:29:11]That is where we have a problem.

[00:29:13]You see? Because Hi, my name Please respond. Can you respond to that?

[00:29:18]No.

[00:29:22]Use the coat of arms Respond to that. I said this.

[00:29:34]Yeah.

[00:29:38]No, no, no, no.

[00:29:41]Please.

[00:29:42]Please. You see?

[00:29:45]Um we understand the language barrier.

[00:29:48]But please take these things serious.

[00:29:52]Trust me.

[00:29:53]Trust me.

[00:29:56]Take these things serious. Take what we are doing serious. Take the complaints.

[00:30:00]Take the complaints serious.

[00:30:03]All right. Because we are helping this government. This government has been captured by people who are coming to this country planning to take this country over. Your people are are planning to take this country.

[00:30:17]And we cannot allow that. Some people who are staying in in fancy houses, they can live with that because they get security and everything. We know what's going on in the sea. We know what your people do in the sea.

[00:30:29]They hijack ships.

[00:30:31]They hijack ships with with full of guns and and missiles and everything. The ships are missing in the harbor.

[00:30:39]Because these people your people are planning to take over this country and we are saying as men we would rather die than to see that and if a man is prepared to die is more dangerous is more dangerous we are more dangerous now that we have laid our lives do you understand right now what we are doing we are putting our lives in danger we are putting our children's lives in danger we are putting our wives in danger and we are ready.

[00:31:08]People must know we are ready the government of South Africa that that is allowing this nonsense and giving you holes and apartments to conduct this nonsense is they must know we are ready.

[00:31:25]He will never he will never protect you Julius Malema Julius Malema will never protect any foreigner in this country is just a Mickey Mouse opening his mouth too much and he doesn't know he he has no idea what we are.

[00:31:38]I'm not talking for everyone I'm talking about where I'm coming from it's just a it's just a whistle away.

[00:31:45]We have the war we got the war we are warriors we are men we are soldiers we are police of this country and we are ready to to to defend it.

[00:32:03]However this is where it becomes more complex.

[00:32:07]Not all South Africans support the violence many condemn it and civil society churches and some politicians push back yet unchecked social media and economic despair spread the fire if foreigners left en masse with South Africa's unemployment drop or would the deeper failures in governance and skills simply become more exposed.

[00:32:28]If current trends continue the June 30th deadline could spark widespread attacks more deaths mass displacements and diplomatic crises with countries like Nigeria preparing repatriations.

[00:32:39]One possible outcome could be escalated AU intervention or sanctions-like measures against South Africa, isolating it regionally. However, this depends on strong government action, arrests of instigators, clear messaging, and addressing root causes like unemployment.

[00:32:55]Best case, cooling tensions through dialogue, legal immigration reforms, and economic inclusion that benefits locals without expulsion. Realistic, patchy enforcement with sporadic violence persisting. Worst case, full-scale pogroms echoing 2008, economic backlash, and a fractured Africa. Synthesizing this, South Africa's xenophobia exposes the gap between Ubuntu rhetoric and harsh realities of competition in an unequal society.

[00:33:23]It challenges pan-African dreams. How can the continent unite against external powers when internal black-on-black targeting thrives?

[00:33:31]Global implications include weakened AU credibility, investor flight from instability, and a reminder that economic despair turns neighbors into scapegoats anywhere.

[00:33:42]In the 21st century, can Africa truly rise as one if its most prosperous nation repeatedly devours its own continental kin?

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