This paper focuses on combattants (French for “fighters”), a diaspora group from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who since 2011, have been instigating terror among fellow Congolese immigrants in western countries as well as in South Africa. The group emerged during the 2011 electoral campaign in the DRC during which the opposition leaders campaigned among Congolese diaspora (Godin 2013; Inaka 2016). Combattants’ violence is ethnic, regional, and to a large extent, political. They are mostly described as Lingala (and to a large extent Tshiluba and Kikongo) speakers from Kinshasa (Kinois), who view themselves as “anti-President Kabila”. Most of their victims are known as collabos (they are considered collaborators of the Kabila regime), mostly people from Kivu region who speak Kiswahili. (Inaka 2016, 5-6). While acknowledging that both the politics of the DRC and that of South Africa largely shape the everyday of Congolese nationals in South Africa (Inaka 2016), this research moves beyond describing combattants as just another politically mobilised group seeking to raise a collective diasporic identity (Werbner 1997). Focusing on Cape Town, this paper stresses the links between the South African migration system that favours some Congolese ethno-regional groups (mainly those from the warzones -- the eastern region/ the Kivu) over others (the more peaceful western region/ Kinshasa) and the current feuds between eastern and western Congolese. The paper argues that combattants/collabos feuds are also a struggle between the “winners” and the “losers” produced and reproduced through South African migration laws and policies.