For weeks, a tide of organized anti-immigrant unrest has swept across South Africa, forcing nearly 150,000 foreign nationals to flee and leaving at least four dead. The latest surge came in Jeffreys Bay, where a coastal town's streets became the scene of looting, arrests, and displacement — a local flare-up within a national crisis rooted in the ancient, unresolved tension between belonging and scarcity. As governments scramble to repatriate their citizens and police struggle to contain the violence, South Africa confronts a question that echoes across human history: when economic despair seek
South Africa arrests 69 as anti-immigrant violence spreads to coastal city
At least one person hospitalized in violence; at least 4 foreign nationals killed in weeks of protests; nearly 150,000 displaced and forced to flee the country.