South African business organisations have warned that rising tensions over illegal immigration could trigger further xenophobic violence and damage the country’s economic interests.

A Zimbabwean man has alleged that a job opportunity in Ethiopia was a front for a drug trafficking operation that saw him forced to transport suspected narcotics before being held in Oman. Police are investigating after his family filed a report naming individuals involved in his recruitment.

MAPUTO — The Mozambican government says at least five of its citizens were killed in what it described as xenophobic attacks in South Africa over the weekend, marking the first officially reported deaths linked to a recent wave of anti-immigration protests sweeping parts of the country.

There is a generation in Zimbabwe’s economy and governance crisis that has never experienced a fully functional system. For them, inefficiency in Zimbabwe is not an interruption, it is the baseline.