US network; June 29 feature filed from KwaZulu-Natal documenting the scale of departures and individual testimonies
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CNN · United States · South Africa on edge as 'March and March' June 30 anti-migrant shutdown looms; 13,000 foreigners already gone
Reported from KwaZulu-Natal on the weeks of anti-immigrant violence preceding the June 30 deadline set by March and March. Documented that three foreign nationals, a Malawian man and two Mozambicans, were killed during protests in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape, and that more than 3,000 Malawians had sheltered in an open field in Durban awaiting repatriation flights, some through sub-zero winter nights.
“'Leave or return in a coffin': the threat driving migrants out of South Africa.”