emmyrichie:
Dear Mr. Xenophobia,

At first I thought your letter was emotionally sensible until I took my time to read through. It is such a huge shame that you lazy people are blaming others for your woes.

You made it look as if all foreigners especially Nigerians who reside in your country are all into illegal/shady businesses... that's a sign of inferiority complex, witchcraft and wizardry, envy etc...

If all these frivolous points of yours are true, why didn't your government not come up with policies to checkmate all the illegal shop owners?

For the record, Nigerians are not running away to your country as postulated by you. The bokoharam menace is only confined to a certain threshold which is very small. Go back and study Geography of Africa and that of Nigeria especially.

Obviously, your people are very lazy and are not employable; else why would most companies/firm/organizations in SA employ Nigerians more than your people? If it's true though.

In the case of skill acquisition, it is glaringly obvious that your people are too lazy to acquire skills to go out and hustle like other foreigners there.

In terms of business or market competition, I'd rather your people should sit down, think and come up with innovative ideas on how to attract customers and climb the ladder of success instead of lagging behind and blaming others for their woes.

By the way, crime cannot thrive in a place without the contribution of indigenes.

If you must know, our GDP is far better than yours, so I wonder where you get this your irrelevant ideas of your economy being better than ours from.

Foreigners are everywhere; your people, Chinese, Americans, Indians, Europeans etc are all thriving well on the Nigerian soil, so feel that your country is that important.

Are you telling me that the 4 foreigners who lost their lives to your demonic xenophobic attacks were criminals? If yes, what was their crimes? Which of your courts convicted/sentenced them to death by mob attack.

Hahahahahaha... How do you expect multinationals to employ people who pronounces Worker as Weka? just kidding.

Please you need more education.

youmour:
Nothing concern me with S.A,dem no dey contribute anything to my life,their music and movies are wack,the clothes at shoprite are mass produced piece of trash,i dont even use an MTN sim,i dont watch cable so really S.A can choke on deez nutz

CristyBEN:



Black South African LABOURERS and white South African engineers... Aren't you ashamed?

Thandolwethu:
I start by imploring you to read this letter with an open and unbiased mind as this will enable you grab the full gist of my message.
I am a full blooded South African, born and bread in Soweto. I have never been to Nigeria and my impression of your Country is formed by the behaviour and actions of the many Nigerians who live in SA and what we hear and read from the media about the goings on in your country.
I deliberately joined Nairaland today as I noted that alot of you are on this Forum hence its a good platform to pass my message. Suffice it to say that i will delete this account after this message. I will read your responses with keen interest.

1. There is no question that there was xenophobic attack on Foreigners in SA in the past 3weeks. What is in doubt is the scale of the attack. I have noted that Nigerians have overtly blown the crises out of proportion by spreading lies and wrong informatiom concerning the crisis. The idea that South Africans are going round SA cities killing, maiming and burning Foreigners is a lie. Only 7 people have been killed so far and of these 7, 3 are south Africans, 2 Ethiopians and 2 Mozambican. The world media is in agreement with these figures. While its 7 lives too many that doesnt give credence to the news going round in Nigeria that we are killing and burning Foreigners. If thats true then there would be more people dead.
STOP BELIEVING WHATYOU READ AND WATCH ON social media as most are lies and fabricated figments of the imaginations of mischievous Nigerians in other to stoke the flame of discord between Nigeria and SA.

2. Why are Nigerians up in arms against SA with xenophobia when the war in Nigeria is far worse than here in SA. Boko haram is killing thousands your people everyday and theres no end in sight meanwhile no Nigerian has been killed in this Xenophobic attack. That is why Nigerians throng our embassies in Lagos and Abuja seeking Visas to come to SA and escape the despicable living conditions in the slums of Nigeria.

3. This recent Xenophobic attack was predicated on the fact that Foreigners commit so much heinous crimes in SA without impunity and we are tired of all these. We have our own criminals here so we cant add more problems from foreigners.
A. NIigerians are the kingpins of drugs killing our children and society. Your brothers drug our girls into prostitution. They con our people with fraud and 419. They hack into our bank accounts stealing millions.

B. Zimbabweans are involved in robberies and car hijackings

C. Mozambicans kill our farmers and take our jobs for peanuts leaving many South Africans jobless

D. Ethiopians and Somalians open shops to do illegal activities and pollute our communities. Theres a Somalian shop in every 2 houses on every street in SA. No Country can allow that.

SA has its own issues but we would like to solve them without the added problems of Foreign crimials.

If you like burn down shoprite and close MTN its your people that will suffer because these companies employ millions of Nigerians. They will simply go jobless.

Thank you

Where image of fake story about foreign child attacked by xenophobic mob comes from
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/iservice/rubber-bullet-did-this--daily-sun

Fake photos misrepresent xenophobic violence
http://ewn.co.za/2015/04/17/Fake-photos-misrepresenting-xenophobic-violence

Internet boasts false images of xenophobic violence in South Africa
http://observers.france24.com/content/20150417-south-africa-durban-immigrant-xenophobic-false-photos

braxjay:
OP,

YOU

ARE

A

FOOL !!!!!!!

ohenhen1:
Black Nigerians built the number one economy in Africa. White South Africans built South Africa. Zulus are savages.

ohenhen1:
Black Nigerians built the number one economy in Africa. White South Africans built South Africa. Zulus are savages.

Thandolwethu:
I start by imploring you to read this letter with an open and unbiased mind as this will enable you grab the full gist of my message.
I am a full blooded South African, born and bread in Soweto. I have never been to Nigeria and my impression of your Country is formed by the behaviour and actions of the many Nigerians who live in SA and what we hear and read from the media about the goings on in your country.
I deliberately joined Nairaland today as I noted that alot of you are on this Forum hence its a good platform to pass my message. Suffice it to say that i will delete this account after this message. I will read your responses with keen interest.

1. There is no question that there was xenophobic attack on Foreigners in SA in the past 3weeks. What is in doubt is the scale of the attack. I have noted that Nigerians have overtly blown the crises out of proportion by spreading lies and wrong informatiom concerning the crisis. The idea that South Africans are going round SA cities killing, maiming and burning Foreigners is a lie. Only 7 people have been killed so far and of these 7, 3 are south Africans, 2 Ethiopians and 2 Mozambican. The world media is in agreement with these figures. While its 7 lives too many that doesnt give credence to the news going round in Nigeria that we are killing and burning Foreigners. If thats true then there would be more people dead.
STOP BELIEVING WHATYOU READ AND WATCH ON social media as most are lies and fabricated figments of the imaginations of mischievous Nigerians in other to stoke the flame of discord between Nigeria and SA.

2. Why are Nigerians up in arms against SA with xenophobia when the war in Nigeria is far worse than here in SA. Boko haram is killing thousands your people everyday and theres no end in sight meanwhile no Nigerian has been killed in this Xenophobic attack. That is why Nigerians throng our embassies in Lagos and Abuja seeking Visas to come to SA and escape the despicable living conditions in the slums of Nigeria.

3. This recent Xenophobic attack was predicated on the fact that Foreigners commit so much heinous crimes in SA without impunity and we are tired of all these. We have our own criminals here so we cant add more problems from foreigners.
A. NIigerians are the kingpins of drugs killing our children and society. Your brothers drug our girls into prostitution. They con our people with fraud and 419. They hack into our bank accounts stealing millions.

B. Zimbabweans are involved in robberies and car hijackings

C. Mozambicans kill our farmers and take our jobs for peanuts leaving many South Africans jobless

D. Ethiopians and Somalians open shops to do illegal activities and pollute our communities. Theres a Somalian shop in every 2 houses on every street in SA. No Country can allow that.

SA has its own issues but we would like to solve them without the added problems of Foreign crimials.

If you like burn down shoprite and close MTN its your people that will suffer because these companies employ millions of Nigerians. They will simply go jobless.

Thank you

Where image of fake story about foreign child attacked by xenophobic mob comes from
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/iservice/rubber-bullet-did-this--daily-sun

Fake photos misrepresent xenophobic violence
http://ewn.co.za/2015/04/17/Fake-photos-misrepresenting-xenophobic-violence

Internet boasts false images of xenophobic violence in South Africa
http://observers.france24.com/content/20150417-south-africa-durban-immigrant-xenophobic-false-photos

Vorp:
Only 7 people were killed??Ain't they humans?Am sorry to say,you are nothing but a goat.

Thandolwethu:


Our people are not Lazy...SA is the largest econmy in Africa and the most beautiful country because it was built by the hard work of black South african labourers.

Parolee:


Ask the guy next door what you are missing....whether you do not wish for it or what....SA sets the bar in Africa and others are trying so hard to follow....

princessdairies:

Tnk u my broda

Parolee:


Takes one to see one....right?

Rotimi47:
Mumu, and who killed Lucky Dube? A south African! How many Nigerians are employees of Your mtn? 6000! How much is being made & remitted to south Africa? Billions of dollars. You largest investment is outside south Africa are in Nigeria & south Africa's make up 45% of Zimbabwe worker's. You people need to be thought a lesson & I believe it will come sooner or later as there is no place for evil south Africans.

youmour:




Miss what? Abeg go crawl somewhere and kpai,bar ko elegushi nii..i repeat,THERES NOTHING S.A is contributing to my life and others,everything they are boasting of has a better substitute in Nigeria already.

MduZA:


unfortunately lucky dube was killed by immigrants,two Zimbabweans and one Mozambican...do you see why there is afrophobia in SA?

driand:
what's beautiful about SA I guess you never heard of abuja, or the Lagos that's compared to new York City.

Baddoo01:




This idiots arguing about best economy should see this, u can check it urself on Wikipedia if u didn't know that Nigeria overtook this stupid racial country called SA.


List of African countries
by GDP (nominal)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market
value of all final goods and services from a
nation in a given year. Countries in Africa are
sorted by nominal GDP estimates based on
2013 data from the World Economic Outlook
by the International Monetary Fund.' [1]
The figures presented here do not take into
account differences in the cost of living in
different countries, and the results can vary
greatly from one year to another based on
fluctuations in the exchange rates of the
country's currency .[2] Such fluctuations may
change a country's ranking from one year to
the next, even though they often make little
or no difference to the standard of living of
its population. [3] Therefore these figures
should be used with caution.
Some countries/regions may have citizens
that are on average wealthy. These countries/
regions could appear in this list as having a
small GDP. This would be because the
country/region listed has a small population,
and therefore small total economy; the GDP is
calculated as the population times market
value of the goods and services produced per
person in the country. [4]
Comparisons of national wealth are also
frequently made on the basis of purchasing
power parity (PPP), to adjust for differences
in the cost of living in different countries. PPP
largely removes the exchange rate problem,
but has its own drawbacks; it does not reflect
the value of economic output in international
trade , and it also requires more estimation
than nominal GDP. [5] On the whole, PPP per
capita figures are more narrowly spread than
nominal GDP per capita figures. [6]
List
The 2014 estimates are as follows: [7]
Rank Country
GDP
est.
($
billions)
Notes
1 Nigeria 594.257
2 South Africa 341.216
3 Egypt 324.267
4 Algeria 227.802
5 Angola 131.407
6 Morocco 112.552
7 Sudan 70.030
8 Kenya 62.722
Revised
to
$53.40
billion [8]
9 Ethiopia 49.857
10 Libya 49.341
11 Tunisia 49.122
12 Tanzania 36.620
Revised
to
$41.33
billion [9]
13 Ghana 35.475
14 Ivory Coast 33.963
15 DR Congo 32.665
16 Cameroon 32.163
17 Uganda 26.086
Revised
to
$24.69
billion
[10][11]
18 Zambia 25.611
19 Gabon 20.675
20 Mozambique 16.590
21 Botswana 16.304
22 Senegal 15.881
23 Chad 15.841
24 Equatorial
Guinea 15.396
25 Congo 14.114
26 Zimbabwe 13.739
27 Burkina Faso 13.382
28 Mauritius 12.720
29 Mali 12.043
30 Namibia 11.982
31 South Sudan 11.893
32 Madagascar 11.188
33 Benin 9.237
34 Niger 8.290
35 Rwanda 8.002
36 Guinea 6.770
37 Sierra Leone 5.411
38 Togo 4.838
39 Malawi 4.408
40 Mauritania 4.286
41 Eritrea 3.870
42 Swaziland 3.842
43 Burundi 3.037
44 Lesotho 2.458
45 Liberia 2.073
46 Cape Verde 1.975
47 Central
African Republic 1.731
48 Djibouti 1.582
49 Seychelles 1.473
50 Guinea-
Bissau 1.040
51 The Gambia 0.918
52 Comoros 0.722
53 São Tomé
and Príncipe 0.362
54 Somalia
55
Sahrawi Arab
Democratic
Republic

ofio2011:
I read this write up objectively and i came to the following conclusions;
1. Truth: yes it is true that the media really over blew the stories of the attach. But I think the media was really trying to create an image of why the act in itself must be vehemently castigated so that such will never happen again.
2. The writer ought to have first apologised of the crime done and not portray an unrepentant view.
3. The writer is wrong to compare terrorism with xenophobia.
4. The writer though accepting that they have there own problems failed to take responsibility of the state of their citizens inherent attitude to work and personal development.
I live in South Africa and I really know what it is for a foreigner to open an account in south Africa not to talk of getting a job. Frankly speaking South Africa has made laws such that it is impossible for foreigners to come and get jobs but foreigners have been very entrepreneurial and this is their crime.

Parolee:


Liar...painful one at that!

ohenhen1:


Egypt will soon overtake them.

osystein:


those gruesome images are fake, and that child is south african, she was short in a service deilivery protest in january check this link. where that image was sourced from.

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/iservice/rubber-bullet-did-this--daily-sun

babasoji:


Utter rubbish. You put up a bunch of words together as intelligently as you possibly could and yet, it still reads as utter rubbish.

So because we are fighting Boko Haram, we should shut up about our African brothers being killed, injured, maimed and displaced?

And to your other point about MTN and Shoprite, if you haven't heard, Nigeria brings in about 40% of profits for both entities and while I would never advocate any form of violence but the power of economic boycott would have an impact on both entities. And for the record, the same crimes you accuse other Africans of, MTN and Shoprite are guilty of. They have poor staffing practices, cheat Nigerians of our hard earned money and don't build capacity of our people.

Finally, lol at Shoprite and MTN hiring millions of Nigerians...you might as well have said billions now...donkey

Parolee:


Back then....but now things are completely different and you know it....you painful denialist!!

Thandolwethu:
I start by imploring you to read this letter with an open and unbiased mind as this will enable you grab the full gist of my message.
I am a full blooded South African, born and bread in Soweto. I have never been to Nigeria and my impression of your Country is formed by the behaviour and actions of the many Nigerians who live in SA and what we hear and read from the media about the goings on in your country.
I deliberately joined Nairaland today as I noted that alot of you are on this Forum hence its a good platform to pass my message. Suffice it to say that i will delete this account after this message. I will read your responses with keen interest.

1. There is no question that there was xenophobic attack on Foreigners in SA in the past 3weeks. What is in doubt is the scale of the attack. I have noted that Nigerians have overtly blown the crises out of proportion by spreading lies and wrong informatiom concerning the crisis. The idea that South Africans are going round SA cities killing, maiming and burning Foreigners is a lie. Only 7 people have been killed so far and of these 7, 3 are south Africans, 2 Ethiopians and 2 Mozambican. The world media is in agreement with these figures. While its 7 lives too many that doesnt give credence to the news going round in Nigeria that we are killing and burning Foreigners. If thats true then there would be more people dead.
STOP BELIEVING WHATYOU READ AND WATCH ON social media as most are lies and fabricated figments of the imaginations of mischievous Nigerians in other to stoke the flame of discord between Nigeria and SA.

2. Why are Nigerians up in arms against SA with xenophobia when the war in Nigeria is far worse than here in SA. Boko haram is killing thousands your people everyday and theres no end in sight meanwhile no Nigerian has been killed in this Xenophobic attack. That is why Nigerians throng our embassies in Lagos and Abuja seeking Visas to come to SA and escape the despicable living conditions in the slums of Nigeria.

3. This recent Xenophobic attack was predicated on the fact that Foreigners commit so much heinous crimes in SA without impunity and we are tired of all these. We have our own criminals here so we cant add more problems from foreigners.
A. NIigerians are the kingpins of drugs killing our children and society. Your brothers drug our girls into prostitution. They con our people with fraud and 419. They hack into our bank accounts stealing millions.

B. Zimbabweans are involved in robberies and car hijackings

C. Mozambicans kill our farmers and take our jobs for peanuts leaving many South Africans jobless

D. Ethiopians and Somalians open shops to do illegal activities and pollute our communities. Theres a Somalian shop in every 2 houses on every street in SA. No Country can allow that.

SA has its own issues but we would like to solve them without the added problems of Foreign crimials.

If you like burn down shoprite and close MTN its your people that will suffer because these companies employ millions of Nigerians. They will simply go jobless.

Thank you

Where image of fake story about foreign child attacked by xenophobic mob comes from
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/iservice/rubber-bullet-did-this--daily-sun

Fake photos misrepresent xenophobic violence
http://ewn.co.za/2015/04/17/Fake-photos-misrepresenting-xenophobic-violence

Internet boasts false images of xenophobic violence in South Africa
http://observers.france24.com/content/20150417-south-africa-durban-immigrant-xenophobic-false-photos