Faith Matters has raised its concerns with the Home Office after a member of the Polish community made us aware of their intention of a woman (Marta Czech) linked to a speaking event at a community venue on the 31st of May 2026. Faith Matters has continued to observe speakers from Poland who are attending events within settled communities of Polish heritage in the U.K. and who have made troubling statements in Poland that can affect the social cohesion of the United KIngdom.

Faith Matters raised its concerns with the Home Office that Marta Czech of the far-right Confederation of the Polish Crown (Konfederacja Korony Polskiej), intended to speak at a community venue in London on 31 May.

A member of the Polish community reached out to share their concerns with us in Faith Matters.

It should, however, concern communities that Czech appeared in a photograph with the notorious far-right extremist Janusz Waluś during his speaking engagement in September 2025. The South African government deported Waluś in 2024 after he spent 29 years in prison following the brutal, racist murder of the anti-Apartheid political activist Chris Hani.  Waluś belonged to the militant neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging movement.

Dr Rafal Pankowski, a political scientist who leads the Never Again anti-racism group, told South African media last year that Waluś enjoyed “a hero’s welcome among the worst racists, the far-right nationalist groups in Poland.”

In November 2022, Czech attended a Confederation press conference captioned Janusz Waluś na wolności! Koniec komuny? – “Janusz Waluś is free! Is this the end of communism?”

On X (formerly Twitter), Czech has posted AI-generated content depicting Black men as an existential danger, captioned “Stop the migrant invasion!” and the inclusion of a goat in the image evokes debasing and racist tropes about bestiality.

Czech has attended other anti-migrant events in Poland with similar inflammatory rhetoric of “invasion”.

On Facebook, Czech uploaded a photo from an engagement event alongside a woman in a t-shirt that appears to show someone blocking Star of David symbols under an umbrella.

On Facebook in December 2024, Czech wrote: “It’s either Hanukkah or Christmas! There is no third option, and anyone who thinks otherwise is as mistaken as Speaker Szymon Hołownia! The Confederation of the Polish Crown calls on the Speaker to cease sectarian, occult, anti-Polish, and anti-humanitarian practices associated with Hanukkah in the Sejm. And if the Speaker has not yet learned what he is participating in and what he is allowing, President Grzegorz Braun will gladly educate him on the matter. Jews—hands off Gaza, and off our Sejm!”

Other inflammatory and concerning social media posts include comparing LGBT+ communities to “deviants”.

Czech has also promoted pro-eugenics content.

Read More: Why the Home Office Must Stop These Polish Far Right Politicians from Entering the U.K.

Tensions between South Africans and foreigners rose again in Pretoria and parts of Johannesburg recently.

Authorities say despite government pleas for peace, damage to property, acts of violence and looting continue to be reported in Pretoria.

The Home Affairs minister spoke out Thursday to respond to reports from the Nigerian government claiming that 116 of its citizens had been killed in South Africa over the past two years.

“I’m not privy to the figures from the Nigerian government and how they collected them. And we haven’t, I don’t think it’s a discussion we want to get into. I think it will turn out very bad. Should we start counting how many South Africans have died in South Africa at the hands of Nigerian nationals? I don’t think that’s going to end up very well, in terms of our good relations, as countries,” said Malusi Gigaba, South African Home Affairs Minister.

More than 136 people have been arrested in relation to tensions between foreigners and locals.

A march, organized by a group called Mamelodi Concerned Residents, was meant to be peaceful, but soon chaos broke out between anti-migrants South African protesters and foreign nationals.

Some South Africans demanded that illegal immigrants be deported immediately. They blamed foreigners for crime, especially the illegal drug trade. They also accused migrants of taking jobs that could be held by South Africans.

“The foreigners who are operating businesses, we need to regulate them so that when they are operating their businesses, their employees must be South Africans strictly,” said a male protester.

The foreign nationals refused to be intimidated.

“We worked so hard for South Africa to be independent. We’re not to be treated like dogs. They’re fighting us. We married their sisters; our sisters are married to them,” said a representative of foreign nationals.

“We just want peace and stability in this country. We are all Africans. We don’t have any grudge for anyone,” said another representative.

Police dispersed the crowds of protesters, expressing worries that the scenes of xenophobic attacks in 2008 might resurface.

Later in the day, protesters handed a memorandum of their grievances to authorities. They maintained that those responsible for the chaos were not part of their group.

“We are not xenophobic. We don’t want any person to be attacked, any foreign national or any person. That’s why we said that the march is to the relevant department, institutions within South Africa that are set up to deal with this way. But the idea is we are in the sense, we South Africans are frustrated, South Africans are angry,” said Makgoka Lekganyane, a Mamelodi resident.

The government has pledged to take action against anyone who commits violent acts. The presidency has also released a statement calling for restraint.

“We also caution those engaging in violent and unlawful acts that the law enforcement agencies of this country will not tolerate such conduct and will act within the confines of the law,” said Khomotso Phahlane, acting Police Commissioner of South Africa.