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CAPE TOWN, South Africa \u2014 South Africa\u2019s president promised Sunday to act on what he called concerns over illegal migration following a rise in anti-immigrant protests and sentiment in Africa\u2019s most advanced economy, with other nations claiming their citizens have been targeted in xenophobic attacks.<\/p>\n

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President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s comments in a speech on national television dedicated to the issue were an acknowledgment of the tensions. Anti-migrant protest groups have said they\u2019ve set a June 30 deadline for foreign nationals who are in South Africa illegally to leave and have requested talks with the government.<\/p>\n

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South Africa has a history of violence sparked by anger over the presence of migrants, including in 2008 when more than 60 people were killed in what international rights groups called xenophobic attacks on foreigners.<\/p>\n

Groups calling for a new crackdown on immigration have gained attention in recent months with a series of protests. They say foreign nationals in South Africa illegally are exacerbating its extremely high unemployment and placing more pressure on already strained public health and education services.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany South Africans are raising difficult but legitimate questions,\u201d Ramaphosa said. \u201cThese concerns are real. They deserve to be heard, and they deserve to be addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Ramaphosa also said that authorities would not tolerate anyone taking the law into their own hands.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOnly authorized government officials can act against violations of our law,\u201d Ramaphosa added, warning that some groups were \u201cinciting\u201d tensions.<\/p>\n

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There are no official figures for how many migrants are in South Africa illegally, though various estimates have put the number at between 2 million and 5 million out of a population of 62 million.<\/p>\n

As the richest country in the region, South Africa has traditionally attracted migrants from neighboring countries Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Lesotho, as well as from others like Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi and Ethiopia. That has been a trend for decades.<\/p>\n

Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Mozambique said recently that their citizens have faced threats and violence in South Africa because they are foreigners. Ghana repatriated around 300 of its citizens from South Africa last month and said more will be offered the chance to return home because of what it called threats against them.<\/p>\n

Mozambique\u2019s government said this week that five of its citizens were killed in what it referred to as xenophobic attacks in the town of Mossel Bay on South Africa\u2019s south coast.<\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s coalition government placed a new focus on the issue of immigration after it was formed in 2024 and says it has deported over 100,000 people in the last two years who were in the country illegally. Ramaphosa said Sunday that around 450,000 people trying to enter South Africa without documents had been stopped at the border in the last year.<\/p>\n

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Ramaphosa said there had been \u201cweaknesses\u201d in the way South Africa previously managed migration and the government would take \u201cdecisive\u201d action now, but he also appealed that people \u201cnot turn on each other\u201d over the issue.<\/p>\n

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