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What a surge of anti-migrant protests says about South Africa | The Economist
Source: The Economist | 26 June 2026
[...]In the first half of 2026 there have already been more anti-migrant protests than in any other year of the 2020s, according to ACLED, a violence-monitoring group. And there is growing concern in the government that on June 30th there will be a violent climax. March and March, a vigilante group, has given the date as a “deadline” for illegal immigrants to leave South Africa. It also pledges to take to the streets that day in what some analysts worry could be an echo of July 2021. Back then the arrest of Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s former president, led to the worst civil unrest since the end of white rule in 1994.[...]
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