In South Africa, a crowd with sticks was searching for foreigners, 25 thousand left the country, what is the ‘death warrant’ of June 30?

South Africa Anti Migrant Protests News In Hindi: South Africa is currently going through a severe humanitarian and social crisis. The fire of hatred and violence against foreign nationals has flared up in various parts of the country.

Local radical groups had given a deadline of June 30 to undocumented foreign nationals to leave the country, before the end of which about 25,000 migrants have already fled the country out of fear.

Crowd took to the streets with sticks and rods

Scary scenes are being seen on the streets of the capital and other major cities. Local people are searching for foreign nationals with sticks and shields in their hands. At many places, common people themselves are trying to check the documents of foreigners and throw them out of their homes or workplaces. The violence has become so extreme that recently two citizens of Mozambique and one citizen of Malawi have been brutally murdered. Out of fear, thousands of people are forced to take shelter in temporary relief camps.

South Africa is braced for nationwide anti-illegal migrants protests on Tuesday June 30th – a deadline set by civil rights activists demanding undocumented foreigners to leave the country by the 30th of June. The govt has fully rejected the shutdown and deployed heavily. pic.twitter.com/Fhy4IDDfkV

— Kenya News Centre🇰🇪 (@KenyaNewsCentre) June 30, 2026

Why are foreign nationals the target?

This violent movement is being led mainly by people wearing traditional Zulu attire of South Africa. These groups claim that crime is increasing in the country due to foreign immigrants and they are snatching away the jobs of local people. South Africa is currently struggling with a huge unemployment rate of about 33 percent and an economic recession, the anger of which is now being vented on migrants. Experts believe this is ‘black-on-black’ There is a new form of violence, where due to lack of resources blacks have turned against blacks.

Anti-immigrant tensions are escalating in South Africa as the June 30 deadline set by Operation Dudula approaches.

Daily protest marches are intensifying in Tembisa, while several African countries have already begun evacuating their nationals amid fears that demonstrations… pic.twitter.com/qtXPOJLlcs

— Africalix (@Africa_lix) June 29, 2026

Politics and rumor game

Political analysts say that the reason behind this tension is the upcoming municipal elections and the opportunism of right-wing political parties. Fake news and misinformation being spread on social media has added fuel to this fire. Although the number of migrants in the country is only 5.1 percent of the total population (about 30 lakh), they are being made scapegoats of the economic crisis.

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Government and security forces action

In view of the June 30 deadline, the government has deployed heavy police forces across the country to prevent riots like the 2021 one, in which more than 350 people were killed. According to the Border Management Authority (BMA), thousands of people are returning to their countries (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Nigeria, and Ghana) by air and land routes.

Countries like Kenya, Uganda and Congo have made special arrangements for the safety of their citizens. The government has appealed to the local people to maintain peace and warned not to take the law into their own hands.