00:00south africa is facing the prospect of renewed mass protest after activists gave undocumented
00:06migrants until september 30th to leave the country much and much leaders fair leshinga says
00:12as many as 1.5 million people could join the next major protests you should know that all the
00:19communities are gathering up again they are waking up they are standing for their home they are
00:24standing for their country so you might see something different from what happened on the
00:28date september 30 i think we're like 500 000 express a million or a million five a million
00:36five hundred people out in town just imagine just imagine that what will happen on september 30
00:41we're going to be writing a lot of history saying all south african people are standing up and saying
00:46all illegal immigrants must go home the september 30 deadline could trigger large-scale demonstration
00:51across durban princess ajay a ghanian refugee said that this new warning has brought a lot of panic
00:58among foreigners much and much as you can see there are lots we are few of us we can't sleep
01:03sleeping on the street forever as well two people have died because of sleeping on the street one
01:08died of tibi because of the cold so we are just not safe out here we just need to move
01:12out of this place
01:15peace activists including ella gandhi have condemned the protesters rhetoric saying undocumented migrants
01:21are not responsible for the problems cited by the government the the rhetoric that these people are
01:29using is absolutely untrue it's not the migrants that are causing all the problems that they talk about
01:39like killing us they are not killing them they are trying to survive themselves thousands of undocumented
01:47foreigners have fled south africa following similar warnings in june while thousands more are since
01:54isolated for lack of means to go back to their countries
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