page_title: 2019 Johannesburg riots
section_title: South Africa
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 Johannesburg riots / Response / South Africa
caption_attribution_description: English: Foreign nationals staging a sit-in (6 days in by time of photograph) at the Cape Town United Nations Refugee offices to demand that their passage back to their home countries be paid for. The sit-in followed the September xenophobic riots in Johannesburg a month earlier.
context_page_description: The 2019 Johannesburg riots occurred in the South African city of Johannesburg from 1–5 September 2019, leading to the deaths of at least seven people. The riots were xenophobic in nature, targeting foreign nationals from the rest of Africa. Retaliatory actions by rioters in other African nations was taken against South African brands. The South African Institute of Race Relations stated that the riots were similar in nature and origin to the 2008 xenophobic riots that also occurred in Johannesburg.
  The riot resumed in Johannesburg on the 8 September 2019, when rioters marched on the central business district and looted shops whilst calling for foreigners to go.
context_section_description: The South African NGO Right2Know stated that xenophobia and the resulting riots were partly the result of "xenophobic populism" espoused by South African politicians such as Herman Mashaba and President Cyril Ramaphosa. A number of South African celebrities such as Nadia Nakai, Manaka Ranaka, and Cassper Nyovest were also publicly critical of xenophobia and the resulting riots.
  Almost a month after the riots in Johannesburg foreign nationals in Cape Town staged a sit-in outside the local offices of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRA). The nationals demanded that the UNRA pay for their fare back to their respective home countries so as to escape xenophobia in South Africa.
caption: Foreign nationals on the sixth day of their sit-in outside the United Nations Refugee Agency offices in Cape Town.  The banners they have put up call for the UN to pay for them to move to third countries so as to escape xenophobia in South Africa.
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