By Charmaine Ndlela
South Africa has slammed Ghana’s claim that one of its citizens was killed during anti-illegal migrant demonstrations on Tuesday, saying the man was murdered a day earlier in a suspected extortion-related attack that police do not believe was linked to the protests.
Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi, who chairs the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration, said on Thursday that she was concerned by statements issued by Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Ghana had said Bashiru Isak, 40, was fatally shot in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, on Tuesday, during the protests.
But Kubayi said the Ghanaian statement was not based on fact.
“The Ghanian national who was fatally wounded was attacked at his place of work on Monday, 29 June 2026, in an incident that the police suspect as a criminal act, which is totally not linked to the alleged demonstrations,” the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration said.
According
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