Overview
- Violent anti-immigrant actions in Mossel Bay over the weekend left dozens of homes burned, about 55 shacks torched and hundreds of residents displaced.
- Mozambique told reporters on Tuesday that five of its nationals died in the attacks and that about 800 Mozambicans were affected, with roughly 300 returning home by their own means and just over 500 entering an organised repatriation process.
- South African police have confirmed finding two Mozambican bodies with assault injuries from the same incidents and have opened murder investigations but say no arrests have yet been made for those killings.
- Many migrants are sheltering in community halls or hiding in mountains and on beaches, and local disaster teams, NGOs and municipalities are coordinating temporary accommodation and transport to repatriation points.
- Citizen-led anti-immigrant movements have set a June 30 ultimatum for undocumented foreigners to leave, which has driven marches and door-to-door checks and raises the risk of further expulsions and regional diplomatic tensions.