‘The amabutho are back’: Abahlali warns of rising xenophobic violence

IOL | 24.06.2026 20:12
Abahlali baseMjondolo secretary-general Thapelo Mohapi has warned that growing anti-migrant mobilisation in KwaZulu-Natal risks escalating into broader ethnic violence, drawing parallels with the political conflicts that devastated parts of the province in the late 1980s and early 1990s.