South African police arrest 69 at violent anti-immigrant protest
(Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP) South African police said on Friday they had arrested 69 people after an anti-immigrant protest on the country’s southeast coast descended into looting and left at least one person hospitalised.
Weeks of protests to demand that undocumented foreign nationals leave South Africa have already claimed the lives of at least four foreigners, according to police, although some African governments repatriating their citizens have put the death toll higher.
Police said the protest in Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape province was organised by anti-migrant group March and March.
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