Members of the Zulu regiment known as the ‘Amabutho’ chant slogans as they march during a demonstration by the "March and March" movement marking an unofficial deadline set by citizen-led groups for undocumented foreign nationals to leave South Africa, in Durban, on June 30, 2026. Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP
Ghana and South Africa were Thursday embroiled in fresh diplomatic spat following the killing of a migrant, a death Pretoria said was not linked to the anti-immigrant protests held in the country earlier this week.
Several thousand people marched across South Africa on Tuesday after a weeks-long campaign against undocumented immigrants peaked with an unofficial June 30 deadline for undocumented migrants to leave the country.
More than 25,000 people, including hundreds of Ghanaians, have already fled the country, according to South Africa’s security forces, as African countries have repatriated their citizens in recent weeks in response to the wave of anti-immigrant protests.
Ghana’s foreign ministry claimed in a statement on Wednesday that its national Bashiru Isak, 40, was shot and killed during the “anti-immigrant demonstrations linked to ongoing xenophobic attacks” in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township.
