00:01Under police watch, holding banners and chanting, a few dozen anti-illegal immigration protestors marched through Belleville, an area with
00:11a significant Somali immigrant community in the city of Cape Town.
00:16The protestors handed the Home Affairs Department a petition demanding that the processing of all foreign visas be paused until
00:23the several million nationals without papers are officially registered.
00:27On Thursday, Pretoria called for an Africa-wide conference to address migration on the continent after weeks of deadly anti
00:35-migrant violence and tensions.
00:38The meeting would revisit a decade-old African Union decision to tackle migration as an issue of economic development, regional
00:47integration, peace and governance, South Africa's foreign ministry said.
00:51It would also address the root causes of anti-migrant sentiment and develop a continent-wide response to xenophobia, discrimination
01:00and violence.
01:02South Africa, the continent's wealthiest nation, has long been a magnet for migrants.
01:09South Africa, the continent.
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