JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South
Africa's President Jacob Zuma on
Saturday canceled a state visit to
Indonesia to deal with a wave of
anti-immigrant violence at home
and promised peace to those who
wished to remain in Africa's most
advanced economy.

The unrest which began in the port
city Durban two weeks ago and
spread to Johannesburg, Africa's
economic hub, appeared to have
died down on Saturday as police
patrolled trouble spots.


"We are certainly going to stop the
violence," Zuma told hundreds of
displaced African immigrants at a
camp in Chatsworth, south of
Durban, in a speech televised on
eNCA.


"Those who want to go home, when
the violence stops you are welcome
to return," he said, addressing
immigrants who planned to board
buses provided by their
governments to take them back to
their countries.

Thousands of foreigners have
sought refuge in camps set up in
Johannesburg and Durban and the
governments of Zimbabwe and
Malawi began bussing their
nationals back home.

Violence flared after Zulu King
Goodwill Zwelithini said in remarks
widely reported by South African
media in March that foreigners
should leave the country.

He has since said his comments
were misinterpreted and on
Saturday attempted to defuse
tensions.
"Anyone who is waiting for an
order from Zwelithini to attack
people, no. No," eNCA reported the
king as saying during a traditional
ceremony in rural KwaZulu-Natal.

At least four people have been
killed in the violence over the last
fortnight and foreign nationals have
complained that the South African
police are failing to protect them.

Zimbabwean President Robert
Mugabe on Saturday expressed
shock and disgust at the attacks on
immigrants.
"I would want now to express our
sense of shock, disgust as we abhor
the incidences which happened in
Durban," said Mugabe, speaking on
behalf of the regional Southern
African Development Community
and African Union, both of which
he currently chairs.


http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0N90H620150418?irpc=932

This is a shaby approach for an ailing problem.

It shows that the Zulu king is more respected and feared than this figure-head president of South Africa.


No wonder, cluelessness has friends.

^^^

In Africa, KINGz are respected no matter what evil proceedz from their mouth......


EWN Reporter
@ewnreporter
5h
#Xenophobia Zuma has now left but the protest is
still in full swing. Foreigners still shouting "go
home" GW pic.twitter.com/IGWoYQoKW8


Note: it is an open secret that government of South Africa are indeed supportive of what is going cos the Zulus have a great substantial no of votes that will be cast during election periodz


Reveal trade secrets or…


Instead, in late January the country’s Small Business
Minister Lindiwe Zulu said foreign shop owners
must
share their trade secrets with people in townships
where they operate to curb violence and looting.
There was no pushback against Zulu, and her
statement seemed to signal how sections of
South African leadership remain ignorant about the
rest of Africa. The foreigners who have been killed in
this round of xenophobic rage are almost all
Somalis
and Ethiopians.
However, Somalia is still a broken country without
much schooling, let alone ones where business
secrets are taught. And Ethiopia remains one of the
most state-controlled economies on the continent,
with little room for teaching freewheeling
enterprise.
Critics say that in promoting the view that
immigrants
have some trade secrets, officials are encouraging
the harmful idea that there is a conspiracy by
outsiders to take over local businesses,
and disempowering South Africans by not making
the
point that foreigners learn trade skills through a
desperate struggle to survive away from
their homelands.

http://m.mgafrica.com/article/2015-04-16-as-foreigners-killed-in-s-africa-and-investors-risk-perception-worsens-zuma-to-address-parliament-on-attacks#.