CAPE Andile Mvuyiselwa Somgaxa, the Gauteng region leader of the anti-foreign "March and March" movement in the Republic of South Africa, died in the hospital where he was treated after the armed attack.
In the statement made by the South African Police Service (SAPS), it was stated that Somgaxa was attacked with a gun at the entrance of his house in the Greenfield district of Johannesburg.
In the statement, it was stated that Somgaxa died in the hospital where he was taken.
In the statement, it was noted that a disciplined team consisting of experienced detectives and crime intelligence officers was assigned to investigate the murder, but no information was shared about the cause of the murder or the identity of the attackers.
In his statement, March and March Spokesperson Sandile Dube claimed that the movement's executives across the country had received death threats due to its stance against illegal immigration.
Anti-immigrant demonstrations and pressures on foreigners, which have increased in South Africa in recent months, have brought the debates on immigration, unemployment and security to the agenda again in the country.
Approximately 3 million immigrants live in the country, making up more than 5 percent of the population, and most of them are citizens of African countries.
While there have been anti-immigrant incidents in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the Western Cape since April, the deaths of Mozambican citizens and the burning of some foreign shelters in the Mossel Bay region in the Western Cape have increased security concerns.
"March and March", one of the recently prominent anti-foreigner groups in the country, had called on undocumented foreigners in the country to "leave South Africa by June 30".