Throughout main cities, political entrepreneurs like Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and Zandile Dabula are staging more and more daring anti-migrant marches, with little pushback from authorities. As António Guterres condemns the surge in threats and violence, South Africa faces mounting strain to behave earlier than rhetoric turns totally flamable.
Metropolis by metropolis, South Africa’s two main anti-foreigner figures – media-facing activists Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and Zandile Ndlovu – organise and lead marches in opposition to foreigners, encountering no obstacles.
This week, March and March, a shadowy anti-foreigner motion led by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, which emerged in 2025, marched in Tshwane and Johannesburg utilizing the rhetoric of anti-migrant hate. It’s in cahoots with Operation Dudula, the motion fronted by Zandile Ndlovu that was stopped in its tracks by a excessive court docket order halting a violent marketing campaign in November 2025, as Day by day Maverick’s Lerato Mutsila reported.
FOR CONTEXT Courtroom prohibits Operation Dudula from harassing overseas nationals November 4, 2025 The charismatic Ngobese-Zuma was a former anchor at Vuma FM in Durban, and her contract was not renewed in 2025. She then began a motion that sprouted in KwaZulu-Natal and has grown like wildfire. It has held marches throughout the nation, notably in opposition to the meaningless and self-proclaimed coronation of an Igbo king in KuGompo (previously East London).
ROYAL FURORE Authorities requires calm after KuGompo erupts over crowning of Nigerian ‘Igbo king’ March 30, 2026 Wall-to-wall, largely unquestioning media protection has legitimised Ngobese-Zuma and Ndlovu as civil society activists….
