Members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) deployed in Eldorado Park, Westbury and Sophiatown have undergone mission readiness training.
Chile's most right-wing president in over three decades, Jose Antonio Kast, was sworn in Wednesday on a promise to tackle surging rates of violent crime and carry out mass migrant deportations.
South African citizens in the Middle East have been urged to contact the respective South African embassies accredited to their countries of residence as tensions escalate.
A UN watchdog warned on Wednesday that racist hate speech by US President Donald Trump and other political leaders coupled with intensified immigration crackdowns were fuelling grave rights violations.