Overview
- The Justice, Crime Prevention and Security cluster held urgent talks and on Monday deployed a deputy‑minister task team to oversee on‑the‑ground policing and finalise a national action plan to address xenophobia and illegal migration.
- Citizen‑led groups including March and March have set an extrajudicial June 30 deadline for undocumented foreigners to leave and warned of escalation if government action is not delivered.
- Officials arrested two minibus drivers in Limpopo who were transporting 48 undocumented Zimbabweans and activated immigration teams to process formal removals under deportation rules.
- Hundreds of foreign nationals, many with legal papers, were displaced in Durban and sought shelter at police and NGO centres because they feared returning to their homes after intimidation by protestors.
- Regional diplomatic responses are under way with Ghana preparing repatriation flights for roughly 800 nationals while civil‑society coalitions demand independent probes into forced removals and police conduct and warn that failures at Home Affairs and political opportunism risk prolonging unrest.