READ: Anti-Foreigner March Filmed in Katlehong as Leader Threatens to Dismantle Foreign-Owned Salon

An anti-foreigner march was filmed in Katlehong as a leader threatened to dismantle a foreign-owned salon, the latest incident in a wave of vigilante mobilisation targeting foreign nationals.

Professor Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand) warns of the deeper implications:

“What we are seeing is the fragmentation of law. Rather than a constitution, these groups are reshaping regulation in their image. The cooperation of the police suggests that rather than promoting the rule of law, they are propagating a system in which law serves only those ready to use force against their neighbours.”

Read the article in Briefly News. 

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