On Wednesday, 25 June 2025, Operation Dudula once again disrupted access to Johannesburg's Hillbrow Clinic, targeting foreign nationals and denying them healthcare in defiance of South Africa's Constitution. Despite police intervention and ongoing legal action by rights groups, the anti-migrant group continues to intimidate and unlawfully demand documentation from patients.

"Since 5am, I have been here. I came to remove my teeth. When I arrived here, I was number four in the line. Look, I am still standing here, and it is 10am. I just want to go inside because my teeth are so painful."

This is what Jennifer, a woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), told Daily Maverick as Operation Dudula once again blocked the entrance to the Hillbrow Clinic in the heart of Johannesburg on Wednesday morning, 25 June 2025.

The group's attempt to prevent foreign nationals from accessing healthcare at the clinic began on Monday when security guards were forced to close the clinic's gates as tensions escalated. Despite being removed by the police earlier this week, Operation Dudula returned to the healthcare centre and continued to ask the clinic's patients for identification, in contravention of South Africa's Constitution and the Immigration Act.

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