South Africa's former President, Thabo Mbeki
says xenophobic attack in his country was against criminals not Nigerians.

Mbeki says there is no South African that goes around chasing Nigerians because they are Nigerians.

On Sunday, September 1, and Monday, September 2, 2019, South African mobs launched attacks on foreigners in their country, looted and burnt their places of business in suburbs of Johannesburg and surrounding areas.

Reacting to the incident, Mbeki said the recent violent demonstration in the former apartheid country was targeted at criminals.

In a two minute video Published on Twitter by AFZ on Saturday, September 7, 2019, Mbeki said it is incorrect to read that South Africans launched attacks on Nigerians.

He said, “The truth of the matters is that there are Nigerian criminals, who are involved in drug dealing, and that’s true. There are Nigerian criminals who are involved in prostitution and that’s true. And you will find, like in this incident now in this area of Johannesburg, it was against criminals not Nigerians.

There is no South African that goes around chasing Nigerians because they are Nigerians.
It is incorrect to read that there’s been an offensive against Nigerians in South Africa, that is not true. So, I am saying when you talk about xenophobia and afrophobia we need to be very careful about it.”

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https://zenithnaija.com/xenophobic-attacks-in-south-africa-targeted-at-nigerian-criminals-thabo-mbeki/

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Nigerians Blast Him

Let me get this straight, so in a supposed civilized country like SA, people just attack anyone who they perceive as a criminal? Is Mbeki saying they don’t have detectives,criminal investigators, drug law enforcement agents? Who will attack the South African drug dealers and criminals? Mbeki don fall hand for this talk!

Its a good thing this issue is coming to light. It now means SA police are going to be brutal with serious repercussion on convicted criminals. Drug dealers and kidnappers, human traffickers should be advised to relocate and find other country for their market so innocent and honest Nigerians in SA can live peacefully and not targeted unecessarily.

Coming from a former president.... I give up.

Xenophobia in south Africa is a premeditated thing. And the government with their position and body language has confirmed their support for it.

I think the nuts in his head are lose

Thabo Mbeki is a fool. It’s more painful when one remembers that Nigeria offered him asylum during the apartheid period.

Thabo is an old unrepentant xenophobic fool. I have careful scrutinise their leaders reaction to this xenophobic attacks and all of them are saying the same thing. They're all deluded. Blaming foreigners for their laziness yet cannot do zilch to the white man stealing your land.

Does that mean if any suspected SA criminal caught any where should be killed the way they did to foreigners . Haba! Una no get law enforcement agent there?

WEN NIGERIA REFUSE TO BE UNITED.


EVEN A MOSQUITO WILL STAND TALL IN-FRONT OF THE SO CALLED GIANT OF AFRICA.


LET US FACE IT, WE NEED TO START DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY AND LESS CONDEMNANTION, ELSE, THESE ANIMALS WILL THINK THEY ARE RIGHT.


DONT BE SURPRISE,FELLOW NIGERIANS OR GHANA IS GIVING THEM DAT POPULAR LINE.


WE WILL SURE SURVIVE.

ARE SOUTH AFRICANS BETTER THAN NIGERIANS?

NO!


THE DIFFERNCE IS THEY ARE PATRIOTIC.


NIGERIANS WILL MEET FOREIGNERS AND START TALKING BAD ABOUT THEIR COUNTRY AND STILL EXPECT THE FOREIGNER TO RESPECT THEM.


LET US START TODAY TO TURN A NEW LEAVE.


GIVE THEM HOT, HOT...

Yeah right, but all those criminals caught on camera are South African have not...


Go fix ur country dirty old criminal.

Nigeria government must make them understand that this excuse they struggle to give is not acceptable.

See BBC Graph of xenophobia history in South Africa.


We expect they will want to give excuse to justify their action but this is historic and has been going on even before the arrival of Nigeria.

Thabo Mbeki must be called to order. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47800718




Graph shows Threats, attacks and killings against foreigners in South Africa

It suggests violent attacks peaked in 2008 and again in 2015.

In 2008, there was a wave of attacks across the country against refugees and migrants - more than 60 people were reported to have been killed and thousands displaced.

Xenophobic attacks spark South African response
In 2015, there were outbreaks of violence against non-South Africans, mostly in the cities of Durban and Johannesburg, which led to the deployment of the army to deter further unrest.

In March, the government launched an initiative to raise public awareness and improve access to services for victims of discrimination.

Human rights groups welcomed it, but said that the government needed to publicly recognise attacks on foreigners as xenophobic.

In a statement published in October 2018, South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, blamed the governing ANC party for a "scourge of xenophobic violence".


Minister of Human Settlements, Water & Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, has urged the police to act against people targeting foreigners
Where are the migrants from?
About 70% of foreigners in South Africa come from neighbouring Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Lesotho.

The remaining 30% is made up of people from Malawi, UK, Namibia, eSwatini, previously known as Swaziland, India and other countries.

There are an estimated 3.6 million migrants in the country, a spokesperson for South Africa's national statistics body told the BBC, out of an overall population of well over 50 million.

hammerVJ:
WEN NIGERIA REFUSE TO BE UNITED.


EVEN A MOSQUITO WILL STAND TALL IN-FRONT OF THE SO CALLED GIANT OF AFRICA.


LET US FACE IT, WE NEED TO START DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY AND LESS CONDEMNANTION, ELSE, THESE ANIMALS WILL THINK THEY ARE RIGHT.




DONT BE SURPRISE,FELLOW NIGERIANS OR GHANA IS GIVING THEM DAT POPULAR LINE.


WE WILL SURE SURVIVE.

U will see South African criminal calling Nigeria criminal.


This is wat we allow and it must stop.



Kettle cannot be calling pot black and we accept this.

Rubbish talk. There should be absolutely no support for xenophobic attacks

This is to show you that deep inside south African citizens, they don't like other African foreigners especially nigerian. This talk and that of their ministers and with the look of those police when violence was going on show deeply that this country will never repent. Their citizens have full support of their leaders and are not hiding it. What is the percentage of drug dealers compare to what they did to other genuine business men? What's the functions of their security agencies? Am sure if dangote conglomerate has warehouse full of house hold commodities in Johannesburg, it would be the first place to target and yet they will justify it by their actions. They can't hide their hatred in them. From leaders, to followers. So pathetic. It's high time our leaders fix this country to be able to conduce for genuine Nigerian to thrive in their businesses. Then they will really know that this country don't give a Bleep to any shitty country like theirs. Fg should not renew all the south African business license. Let them go back to their country and enjoy their businesses. This will still repeat itself sooner than expected because they enjoy doing it.
What a nonsense.

I am highly disappointed in Thabo Mbeki

This is fake news at its best....I condemn the attacks on foreigners in SA but what gets to me is this thing that Nigerians never condemn the behavior of their citizens in foreign countries and always blame the natives as if Nigerians citizens are saints wherever they migrate to.

You attacked harmless people who go about doing their lawful business and you call them criminals.