South Africa's Vigilante Campaign Against Black Immigrants Escalates

Foreign nationals face violence, displacement, and detention at the hands of vigilante groups operating outside legal authority.

In South Africa's cities and townships, a shadow system of enforcement has emerged alongside the formal institutions of law — one driven not by courts or police, but by organized groups who have decided that waiting for the state is no longer an option. Immigration, long a source of tension across the region, has become the flashpoint for a deeper rupture: the erosion of institutional trust and the rise of extrajudicial power in its place. What is unfolding is not simply a migration crisis, but a test of whether the rule of law can hold when citizens no longer believe it will act on their beha

South Africa's Vigilante Campaign Against Black Immigrants Escalates

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