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. Thousands of demonstrators massed across South African cities on June 30, 2026, venting anger at undocumented foreign nationals as police mounted a major operation to head off looting and xenophobic violence that has claimed four lives.
The nationwide protests cap weeks of demonstrations called by a loose coalition of minor political parties and small citizen-led vigilante groups, which set an unofficial June 30 deadline for foreigners without residency papers to leave. (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP)
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
ABUJA—THE Nigeria government has called for urgent action and reparations following a wave of violent attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, told reporters after briefing President Bola Tinubu on talks with South African Foreign Minister Roland Lamola.
