AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoAnti-immigration protests: Thousands marched across South Africa on Tuesday demanding undocumented foreign nationals leave after an unofficial June 30 deadline. Public order response: Police and other security forces were heavily deployed, with isolated reports of looting, stone-throwing and confrontations in places like Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, and 178 arrests in Cape Town for looting and public violence. Government line: The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration said protests should stay peaceful and warned anyone exploiting marches for crime would face prosecution, while President Ramaphosa rejected the deadline and urged calm. Human impact and repatriations: Nigeria and Zimbabwe stepped up evacuations as migrants fled violence; a second Air Peace flight brought 269 Nigerians to Lagos, and Zimbabwe said 3,624 citizens had been repatriated by June 29, though screening slowed some returns. Regional pushback: FOCCISA condemned xenophobic attacks and hate speech, urging protection for everyone within South Africa and action against perpetrators. Politics in the background: Analysts warned the unrest could feed into local election campaigning, raising the political temperature ahead of November.
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