[3] Operation Dudula led their first march on 16 June 2021 through Soweto targeting people they that they believed were foreign drug traffickers and businesses that they thought employed immigrants.
[7] Operation Dudula states that its campaign is aimed at addressing crime, a lack of jobs and poor health services caused by an "influx of illegal immigrants".
[8] In March 2022, Dlamini was arrested on charges of orchestrating a raid of EFF member Victor Ramerafe's Dobsonville home where Operation Dudula claimed drugs were being sold;[9] he duly received two suspended sentences.
[10] In July 2022, Dlamini left Operation Dudula to concentrate on his work with the Soweto Parliament; this was due to disagreements between the two groups over immigration.
[15] In April 2022, after civil society pressure, president Cyril Ramaphosa denounced Operation Dudula as illegal vigilantism.