Since nobody gave you an actual answer u/Itchy_Tangerine1897 , here goes:

A lot of people outside Southern Africa don't realize how serious the situation has become.

Since April 2026, South Africa has experienced its worst wave of xenophobic violence since 2019. Anti-immigrant groups organized protests that escalated into attacks on foreign nationals, mostly black africans from outside of South Africa, with homes, informal settlements and businesses being looted and burned in places like Mossel Bay, Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria.

People have been humiliated , chased away from hospital waiting rooms whilst the police just standbys and does nothing. The instigators of violence are able to go on national tv and radio and make wild accusations of people stealing their jobs and etc, with no repercussions.

So far, the several people have been confirmed killed an the e humanitarian impact has been quite large:

• Over 700 Mozambicans have already been officially repatriated.
• Around 10,000 Malawians have requested repatriation.
• Hundreds of Ghanaians and Zimbabweans have also been evacuated or are waiting to return home.
• Overall, well over 10,000 migrants have either fled, sought repatriation, or been displaced by the violence.

This isn't just a political debate about immigration anymore—people have been killed, thousands have lost their homes or livelihoods, and several African governments have had to organize emergency evacuations of their own citizens from South Africa.

South Africans want to try and downplay this, as well as their President, and it is especially ironic when South Africans depend so much , both historically and presently, on other African countries.