March And March supporters protest against illegal immigration in the Durban CBD. Consequently, Ghana's government is starting the process of evacuating its people.
On Sunday, a large number of Ghanaians arrived at the Ghanaian embassy in Pretoria for the screening and verification procedure.
Benjamin Quashie, Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, recently declared that 826 Ghanaians had signed up to be evacuated from South Africa.
Quashie revealed that the screening process for the first 300 Ghanaians departing on Wednesday has been precipitated by the recent anti-migration protests that have erupted across the country.
The nationwide protests led by the interest group March and March in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Eastern Cape have called for non-South Africans to leave the country by the end of June.
