The Nigerian government led
by outgoing President
Goodluck Jonathan was
expected to begin evacuating
its nationals from South
Africa on Monday, as the
death toll rises from the serial
xenophobic attacks on
foreigners in Durban,
Johannesburg and other
cities. Nigerians in South
Africa have already lost more
than 21 million Nigerian naira,
or over $105,000, since the
violence broke out last
month, according to local
media reports.
The Nigerian consul-general
in South Africa, Uche Ajulu-
Okeke, said Nigerian nationals
living in South Africa have
suffered a slew of property
damages and losses
including burned businesses,
looted shops, scorched cars
and stolen vehicles.
“Nigerians have compiled
damage to their property and
it is totaling about 1.2 million
rand or N21 million, which
will be sent to the federal
government for further
action,” Ajulu-Okeke told the
News Agency of Nigeria in a
telephone interview Sunday.
“I have also visited the site of
the attacks in Johannesburg
to assess the damage, and it
was enormous.”
At least seven people have
died in the anti-immigrant
attacks in South Africa in the
past week alone, Reuters
reported. The wave of attacks
on Africans from other
countries began at the end of
March in the coastal city of
Durban and has spread to
other parts of the country,
forcing thousands of
migrants to leave their
homes. The attacks in South
Africa have targeted African
migrants whom locals accuse
of stealing their jobs and
businesses. It’s the deadliest
spread of xenophobic
violence South Africa has
seen since 2008, when at
least 67 people were killed.
“The xenophobic attacks in
South Africa is a reflection of
the crisis of governance in
Africa as reflected by the
worsening poverty and
unemployment rate in the
continent,” the Nigeria Labor
Congress and the Congress
of South African Trade
Unions said in a joint
statement Monday, according
to Vanguard.
Nigerians marched on the
South African High
Commission (embassy) in
Abuja, the capital, on Monday
to protest the xenophobic
attacks on Nigerians and
other Africans in South
Africa, and to urge the South
African government to end to
the violence. Demonstrators
held signs that read
“Foreigners are not
responsible for your
joblessness, stop the killings
now” and “We have showed
Africans and South Africans
love, why are they attacking
us?”
The commission’s political
secretary, Sthembiso
Shongwe, condemned the
attacks and said South Africa
is doing everything possible
to stop them. “These attacks,
they are not acceptable
because we are brothers and
sisters, but I can assure you
that the government is
serious in bringing this under
control,” Shongwe told the
Premium Times on Monday.
While many protesters have
called for the immediate
evacuation of Nigerians from
South Africa, one protester
said he was hesitant about
such action. “Evacuation may
not be 100 percent,” Deji
Adeyanju, an organizer of the
protest, told the Premium
Times. “There are Nigerians
married to South Africans
and many have kids too. We
don’t want a bad precedence
to be set.”
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Some of Dem go still day hide o even as Dem day kill Dem so

pls evacuation is the best answer in this case wtf if Nigerians in south Africa should retaliate it won't be nice NOTOXENOPHOBIA