South African anti-migrant ‘vigilantes’ register as party for next year’s polls

An Operation Dudula protest in Johannesburg in July. As unemployment and inequality in South Africa soar, calls for mass deportation of foreigners have spread. Photograph: Gallo/Getty

An anti-migrant vigilante organisation in South Africa has registered as a political party and plans to contest seats in next year’s general elections.

Operation Dudula, whose name means “to force out” in Zulu, wants all foreign nationals who are in the country unofficially to be deported.