Immigration – especially undocumented migration – has become a highly contentious political issue in South Africa, where protesters accuse them of putting pressure on public services, as well as being involved in crime. March and March had set an unofficial deadline of June 30 for all undocumented immigrants to leave the country. Protesters have vowed
The dispute intensified last week when Ghana condemned the alleged murder of Bahiru Isak, a 40-year-old Ghanaian national living in the Khayelitsha suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Ghanaian officials said he was killed during anti-immigration protests on June 30. However, South African authorities say no such murder occurred and insist that the only Ghanaian