A day of chaos or order?

A narrative has been successfully created that seeks to vilify those who view today’s anti-migrant deadline as unnecessary.

- Sydney Majoko

A narrative has been successfully created that seeks to vilify those who view today’s anti-migrant deadline as unnecessary.

The deadline set by various organisations for all undocumented foreign nationals to leave the country or face an unknown threat has created a lot of tension in areas that have high concentrations of foreign nationals.

Although the build-up to the deadline has been accompanied by relatively peaceful marches, a high possibility exists that, today, opportunistic criminals might use the cover of anti-migrant marches to commit crimes and violence.

There is no clearly defined action that will be taken against those who defy the order to leave the country, but the threat that something will happen to them today exists.