These forces range from actors within extortion networks to traditional authority, the state, political parties, and white capital. The situation is rapidly worsening as political assassinations become more common and xenophobic mob violence is increasingly well organised, and organised at a rapidly escalating scale. that is now central to the xenophobic mob, online and on the street, during a vigilante media spectacle at the Musina border. It is politically necessary but not sufficient to appeal to the courts to affirm and enforce the law against the xenophobic mob. Men organised into ethnically constituted martial formation were bused in from the hostels in KwaZulu-Natal and were joined by the MKP and ActionSA.