Protesting South Africans on Sunday.
Source: SowetanLive
South Africans living in Mpumalamga province have attacked
Nigerians in a fresh wave of xenophobic violence.
Channels Television correspondent in South Africa reports that
further information concerning the attack is still sketchy as the
crew is on its way to the province for details.
The leadership of Nigerian Citizens In South Africa (NICASA) and
Nigeria’s Consular General to South Africa are also on their way to
Witbank in Mpumalanga province to gather more information on the
attack.
This fresh attack comes a few weeks after President Muhammadu
Buhari visited South Africa and called for the protection of
Nigerians and other foreign nationals living in the country.
Buhari during the visit also condemned the xenophobic attacks in
Johannesburg, South Africa’s capital which led to the looting of
shops owned by foreign nationals.
He demanded that measures should be put in place to prevent the
re-occurrence of the attacks.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in response repeatedly
apologised over the attacks and reiterated his government’s “deep
regret at the incidents of public violence.”
About 600 Nigerians returned from South Africa early in
September after xenophobic violence in Johannesburg. The second
batch of 315 Nigerians later returned mid September and many more
have continued to leave South Africa in the wave of the deadly
attacks.