In recent years, a succession of groups framed as civic organisations have walked through the streets of Johannesburg and Pretoria with similar claims and accusations. From Operation Dudula, most recently to Put South Africans First, the Fiyela Movement, the All Truck Drivers Foundation, and other groups before them. The names change, the leaders change, and the slogans are repackaged, but the message remains familiar,

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The police minister's statement came after Ghana's Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa engaged his South African counterpart to protest against widely circulated videos appearing to show xenophobic attacks against Ghanaian nationals. Describing the footage as "extremely disturbing", Ablakwa urged South African authorities

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Human rights organisations have intervened to prevent members of the anti-immigration group Operation Dudula from entering the offices of the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) in Johannesburg.

Operation Dudula had planned to deliver memoranda to SERI, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), and the Helen

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In South Africa, immigrants are often scapegoated as the root of socio-economic problems. In the post-apartheid landscape, Black African immigrants, mainly from other African countries have been negatively stereotyped as "illegal" and "job stealers" who are "criminal" as well as "diseased", writes Anthony Kaziboni for The Conversation Africa.

Inflammatory remarks about migrants by public officials and politicians harden

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