(Image : Freddy Mavundla - TIMESLIVE)
Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS
SINCE 2024, March and March an anti-immigration movement has had the vision of cleaning South Africa and restoring it back to its citizens. However it was in 2025 when the movement gained popularity especially nationally to the people of South Africa. It all began with the vision of the woman pictured in the photograph above, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma a South African Radio Broadcaster and Activist who to this day remains committed to restoring back South Africa to its citizens.
Ngobese-Zuma has been vilified a lot by some journalists as a Xenophobic woman and an enabler of violence against foreign immigrants in South Africa. Ngobese-Zuma has been documented in the media proudly saying that March and March is not about violence and xenophobia, but about illegal immigrants who are contributing highly on the problems that South Africa has as developing country and who are also not contributing anything to its economy.
"Anyone who loots or causes violence today or tomorrow please can the police arrest them and lock them up. Don't embarrass us, we are fighting a serious fight." , says Ngobese Zuma as reported by TimesLive.
30 June 2026 was such a long-awaited day for supporters of March and March, and the leaders of the movement. Meanwhile Nigerian immigrants have been camping outside the General Consulate of Nigeria office, while some foreign immigrants have been reported by the media to have been camping outside Home Affairs offices asking for assistance with their applications for proper documentation so that they can continue their stay in South Africa. It has been such a sour day for foreign immigrants and some South African citizens who are pained by the anti-immigration protests. Some of these citizens say that foreign immigrants have been good to them and that they will miss having to buy from their shops because they were always kind and reasonable to them.
"Violence is something I pray doesn't happen at all. These people have been nothing but kind to us.", says Mam Sarah Dube, a resident in Tsakane Ext 1 .
"I will miss buying from their shops. We always got discounts on essential products." , says Busi Xaba, a resident from Rockville section in Tsakane.
I have to say that the mood has been so dull and sad indeed as residents were on two sides of the protest, others in support of the anti-immigration protests and others in support of the foreign immigrants.
What a sour day!
TSAKANE INFORMER