00:00South Africa is facing the prospect of renewed mass protest after activists gave undocumented migrants until September 30th to leave
00:09the country.
00:10March and March leader Sefele Shinga says as many as 1.5 million people could join the next major protests.
00:18You should know that all the communities are gathering up again.
00:22They are waking up, they are standing for their home, they are standing for their country.
00:25So you might see something different from what happened on the June 30th.
00:29September 30th, I think we have like 500,000, expect a million or a million and five.
00:35A million and five hundred people out in town.
00:38Just imagine, just imagine that.
00:40What will happen on September 30th?
00:42We're going to be writing another history saying all South African people are standing up and saying all illegal migrants
00:47must go home.
00:48The September 30th deadline could trigger large-scale demonstration across Durban.
00:53Princess Ajayi, a Ghanaian refugee, said that this new warning has brought a lot of panic among foreigners.
00:59Much and much as you can see, there are lots.
01:01We are few of us.
01:02We can't keep sleeping on the street forever as well.
01:05Two people have died because of sleeping on the street.
01:08One died of TB because of the cold.
01:10So we are just not safe out here.
01:11We just need to move out of this place.
01:15Peace activists, including Ella Gandhi, have condemned the protesters' rhetoric, saying undocumented migrants are not responsible for the problems cited
01:23by the government.
01:26The rhetoric that these people are using is absolutely untrue.
01:33It's not the migrants that are causing all the problems that they talk about, like killing us.
01:41They are not killing them.
01:43They are trying to survive themselves.
01:46Thousands of undocumented foreigners have fled South Africa, following similar warnings in June, while thousands more are since trying for
01:55lack of means to go back to their countries.
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