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Thousands Flee South Africa as Anti-Immigrant Attacks Grow A threat to all undocumented foreigners to leave the country by Tuesday
New York times ^ | 26th June 2026 | John Eligon

Posted on 06/26/2026 10:03:38 PM PDT by Cronos

A street corner in the South African coastal city of Durban has become a bustling scene of desperation.

Thousands of migrants crowd around colorful plastic sacks, boxes and trash bags carrying what belongings they could salvage before fleeing the country. Women tuck their babies under blankets. Vendors hawk solar-powered cellphone chargers and potato chips. Portable toilets, large green water tanks and makeshift showers fashioned from gray tarps are the only sanitation available.

The people in this encampment, like the handful that have popped up around the country, have been stuck out here for days, sometimes weeks, after anti-immigration activists called on undocumented foreigners to leave South Africa by Tuesday, or face untold consequences.

The activists have not explained what they plan to do to the immigrants who stay after the deadline, but even the threat has led thousands of immigrants, mostly from other African nations, to leave South Africa.

South Africa is the continent’s wealthiest nation. When people come to South Africa as refugees, the government does not put them in refugee camps but instead allows them to integrate into society. But many immigrants manipulate the refugee system to stay in the country longer, said Njabulo Nzuza, the deputy home affairs minister, while others who come for economic opportunities often overstay their visa.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: illegalimmigration; illegals; illegaltruth; immigranttruth; immigration; southafrica

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Migrants can cause societal disruption even in sub Saharan Africa
1 posted on 06/26/2026 10:03:38 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Will Bono start singing “I Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City” again?


2 posted on 06/26/2026 10:07:01 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Cronos

We need to do that here in America. All AFRIKANS OUT!!!


3 posted on 06/26/2026 10:09:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (No Kings in America! Defund and Abolish the Feral DemonRAT Judiciary NOW!!!)
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To: Cronos

Get rid of the illegals.


4 posted on 06/26/2026 10:11:48 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Thousands Flee South Africa as Anti-Immigrant Attacks Grow A threat to all undocumented foreigners to leave the country by Tuesday

I had no idea that Black South Africans were so ray-cist!

Regards,

5 posted on 06/26/2026 10:26:01 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Cronos

Racists!


6 posted on 06/26/2026 10:42:16 PM PDT by Ken H (Freeper #240 - Dec 05, 1997)
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To: Cronos

It’s enough to Shaka Zulu


7 posted on 06/26/2026 11:57:45 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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I know a couple in Florida, both Mds. who were from south africa. When the news showed many well-dressed men from south africa in trump’s office at a time the blacks were murdering whites, I called them for more news and they almost had a tantrum on the phone.

“blacks kill more blacks than white people.”
Liberalism really is a mental disorder.


8 posted on 06/27/2026 12:30:14 AM PDT by Veto! ((Whatever it is, I'm against it))
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To: Cronos

Does the article say where these immigrants immigrated from or when? Does it say anything at all about their heritage, their education or their religion?

I hit a paywall when o try to read the whole article, but I find it curious that in the entire excerpt posted, the authors chose to avoid revealing even the slightest bit of information about these immigrants, with which I’ve might assess their ability to assimilate and contribute to the economy or culture, vs being a burden or disrupting force.


9 posted on 06/27/2026 12:39:21 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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Guess what globalists. NOBODY likes it when their country sees a sudden flood of foreigners especially if those foreigners are from one particular source.

What the South Africans are doing now the Nigerians did just a year or two ago.....ie mass deporting/driving out the hordes of foreigners who flocked in.

The only difference is when Africans do it White Leftists in the West don’t scream and cry about how “racist” they are for doing so.


10 posted on 06/27/2026 12:43:14 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Cronos

They must have seen “Citizen Vigilanty” and taken it to heart.


11 posted on 06/27/2026 3:19:44 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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Thousands of migrants crowd around colorful plastic sacks, boxes and trash bags carrying what belongings they could

In Los Angeles, these are known as demonicRAT voters.

12 posted on 06/27/2026 3:43:22 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Cronos

Every body just enjoy a Coke and let us all sing we are the world.
I just love these stories of paradise lost and found that are foisted upon us with twists of twist.


13 posted on 06/27/2026 4:05:41 AM PDT by Recompennation ( Deeeeeeeeezout)
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So South Africa now has ‘Apartheid’ or rather ‘Heidapart’ ....... how droll .... South Africans doing the doings.

Just remember they was kings and sh)* and Ejip-titons princess tooooo.

LOL!


14 posted on 06/27/2026 4:08:41 AM PDT by BFW
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/thousands-flee-south-africa-ahead-anti-foreigner-ultimatum/?msockid=36d8cf7a8e3c62c41bdfda028a3c60ca

Many in the park say they fear a repeat of anti-foreigner riots that killed 62 people in 2008 and flared again in 2015 and 2019.
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But immigration has also long been blamed by many poor South Africans for the country’s high unemployment rate – around a third are currently without jobs.

Many also blame immigration for crime and the country’s failing public services.

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South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council recently reported polling showed the public “has become considerably more antagonistic towards immigrants over the last five years”.

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By the end of the week, the makeshift camp around Sherwood Hall had begun to look like a detention centre as police set up a razor wire cordon and patrolled with shotguns.

Officials said those inside had to be processed by having their identities checked and being put before a court, before they were taken by bus back to Malawi.

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“Every country prioritises its citizens and we want the South African government to do the same.”


15 posted on 06/27/2026 5:27:59 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: PeterPrinciple

Thanks


16 posted on 06/27/2026 5:33:49 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: enumerated

I see no information on SA welfare payments. The removal of money for ngo might be a factor and do they have the fraud issues? but there is a history back to 2008.

This appears to be driven more by citizen which is interesting. the riots

wonder if SA has sanctuary cities?

Africa is extremely tribal, more that our “use to be melting pot”.


17 posted on 06/27/2026 5:36:47 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: Cronos

managing for what you don’t want never leads you anywhere. It is like the french revolution, after that there was more they didn’t want.

Our American revolution was for clear goals.

Being anti immigrant wont lead us any where. I hope we can redirect the message to wanting good citizen.

Personally, after we get rid of of the problem immigrant, I think Trump will do this.

What we want is good citizens.


18 posted on 06/27/2026 5:43:22 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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Pro 11:11 Upright citizens are good for a city and make it prosper, but the talk of the wicked tears it apart.


19 posted on 06/27/2026 5:44:32 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: Cronos

Same everywhere.
The world is becoming fatigued by this.
There were reasons for the original isolation.
Worst mistake made by humans since Eve bit the apple.


20 posted on 06/27/2026 5:52:47 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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