TOPSHOT - A South African Police Service (SAPS) water canon is used to dowse a car set alight after clashes erupted between protesters and foreign nationals in Durban on October 8, 2026. Several vehicles were set alight during the confrontation amid tensions over undocumented immigration and foreign nationals. South African protesters and foreign nationals clashed Thursday, police and an AFP reporter said, as tensions over migration were reignited by a court order that government must restart processing asylum applications. Violence erupted in Soweto, in Johannesburg, and the east coast port city of Durban, with several cars torched and foreign-run businesses forced to close. It followed protests called by anti-illegal migration movements that were behind waves of demonstrations earlier this year that led tens of thousands of nationals of other African countries to flee the country. (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP via Getty Images)