With unemployment stubbornly above 30 percent and crime rates among the highest in Africa, South Africa’s simmering frustrations have boiled over into anti immigrant protests. Anti-migrant vigilante groups, including opposition party, Action SA, emboldened by fake government posters circulating online, have set a June 30 (today) ultimatum for undocumented foreigners to leave- a deadline the government insists is false and legally baseless.
South Africa’s economic challenges sit within a wider global migration debate. Across continents, migra
