Somalis marched to Parliament on 7 June in response to xenophobic violence against Somali refugees. About 500 people participated.
The march was organised by an informal group calling itself Somali Diaspora Communities. The march was in response to the looting of Somali and other foreign nationals' shops in Gauteng and Eastern Cape provinces, as well as the murder of Abdi Nasir Mahmoud Good, a 25 year old Somali trader who was stoned to death by a mob in Port Elizabeth on 30 May.
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