March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma addresses the media recently during a briefing ahead of the planned June 30 demonstrations over illegal immigration.
The planned demonstrations, driven by anti-illegal immigration movements including March and March, follow weeks of mobilisation around a self-declared deadline for undocumented foreign nationals to leave South Africa.
While organisers have framed the campaign as a call for immigration enforcement, the government, analysts, and civil society organisations have warned that the build-up has already fuelled fear, displacement, and intimidation among migrant communities, including refugees, asylum seekers, and documented foreign nationals.
Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, from March and March, did not respond to questions by the time of publication about the areas expected to be protest hotspots, the movement’s security plans, its rejection of violence, and whether protests would continue beyond June 30.
However, during a media briefing held in Gauteng this week, March and March and allied organisations reportedly insisted that the June 30 action would be peaceful and non-violent.
