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South Africa's Zuma Visits Immigrants Displaced By Anti-foreigner Violence by landinfo: 8:46pm On Apr 18, 2015 |
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 |
Re: South Africa's Zuma Visits Immigrants Displaced By Anti-foreigner Violence by VickJames(m): 8:51pm On Apr 18, 2015 |
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. |
Re: South Africa's Zuma Visits Immigrants Displaced By Anti-foreigner Violence by landinfo: 9:06pm On Apr 18, 2015 |
^^^ 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#. |
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