Rio Times · Analysis
Key Facts
—What happened A right-wing anti-migrant campaign set a 30 June ‘deadline’ for undocumented foreigners to leave South Africa, triggering marches, attacks and mass flight.
—The scale More than 13,000 foreign nationals were repatriated or deported in a single fortnight, with later estimates of tens of thousands displaced.
—Deaths At least several migrants have been killed, including Mozambicans in Mossel Bay and a man who fell from a Durban building fearing he was a target.
