South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on citizens to stop blaming immigrants for the country's problems, warning that legitimate public grievances are being exploited by those with "nefarious intentions." He spoke during Youth Day commemorations marking the 1976 Soweto uprising — when apartheid police killed more than 200 students protesting a racially imposed education system — as anti-immigrant demonstrations intensify ahead of a June 30 deadline for undocumented migrants to leave the country, promoted by opposition party ActionSA. Ramaphosa rejected accusations that South Africa is xenophobic, attributing negative perceptions to deliberate disinformation, while acknowledging that decades after the uprising, many young South Africans still face deep unemployment, poverty, and inequality.