Anti-immigrant protests in South Africa
By DW
12 December 2022 |
1:51 pm
South Africa is seeing another wave of anti-immigrant protests driven by a new movement called Operation Dudula. DW’s Adrian Kriesch reports from one of the anti-migrant protests in the mining town of Rustenburg.
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