South Africans are not xenophobic.

This was President Cyril Ramaphosa’s response to a Senegalese journalist who asked his president, Macky Sall, and South Africa's Ramaphosa a question on the matter on Tuesday.

Speaking at a joint press briefing after concluding their bilateral talks in Dakar, Ramaphosa said people from different parts of the continent were attracted to SA.

“We have been very welcoming to our nationals from other parts of the world. We are not xenophobic. What happened two years ago was a response to our own internal challenges of unemployment and poverty. These are challenges countries around the world experience from time to time.”

Ramaphosa said there were incidents in West Africa when people had been expelled and forced to move elsewhere.

“This happens as countries face challenges but the good thing is they are able to resolve those challenges, like we have. Once that happened, I sent people and we reached out right across the continent to heads of states and organisations to explain what happened.”

He said it was unfortunate that “sometimes it manifests itself though people being injured and arrested, and it is often unfortunate that some people lose their lives. We always take care to make sure the challenges that manifest themselves in the way people feel, sometimes fearful of people from other nations, are challenges we address and try to reduce as much as possible.”

Like any other country, Ramaphosa said SA faced challenges around how people from other nations enter the country, but “we want to treat people from other countries as well as we can, as we have always done as South Africans”.

“It so happens that SA has become more attractive to many people across the continent and the world, particularly after the end of apartheid, because it had created a barrier and many people from our continent could not visit SA.”

Once the government brought an end to apartheid, “SA was open and some people come under the fence. They come in illegally," said the president.

“Every country would like people to be well-treated and documented. It is something we are continuously discussing with our sister countries so our migration processes are well managed.”

Ramaphosa if your people are not xenophobic as you just mentioned
Like any other country, Ramaphosa said SA faced challenges around how people from other nations enter the country, but “we want to treat people from other countries as well as we can, as we have always done as South Africans”.

Why did they refuse to treat people from other African nations the way they treat the whites in SA.
Abi no be human being all of us be

Why is this ape face lying? So all the xenophobic attacks perpetuated by hateful BLACK South Africans that we have been reading about all these years along with pictorial evidence is all made up fallacy abi? Ramaphosa, keep deceiving yourself not us. Take your lying self back home abeg and don't forget to take Omicron with you.

Are Ghanaians not more xenophobic?

dasparrow:
Why is this ape face lying? So all the xenophobic attacks perpetuated by hateful BLACK South Africans that we have been reading about all these years along with pictorial evidence is all made up fallacy abi? Ramaphosa, keep deceiving yourself not us. Take your lying self back home abeg and don't forget to take Omicron with you.

Watch this video of a Kenyan travel YouTuber walking around SA just last week. NO xenophobia. Friendly people everywhere.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ONIvHdz5NU

He is MAD, just like his MAD jobless and lazy citizens.

Yes you're not xenophobic...

You're just not happy that u have to share your country with blacks laik you...

dasparrow:
Why is this ape face lying? So all the xenophobic attacks perpetuated by hateful BLACK South Africans that we have been reading about all these years along with pictorial evidence is all made up fallacy abi? Ramaphosa, keep deceiving yourself not us. Take your lying self back home abeg and don't forget to take Omicron with you.

How is he lying if Buhari said Nigerians are good people or Igbos are not drug dealers would he be lying?

dasparrow:
Why is this ape face lying? .

Calling ada Africans apes is called what exactly

StreetFight:
He is MAD, just like his MAD jobless and lazy citizens.

The sort of attitude that makes South Africans love u dearly.

At this point now,Ramaphosa shouldn't even care explaining himself

Perhaps he can do well to use the word some of the youths are xenophobic �
This one wey him do come be like lie��

ablejesus26:
Perhaps he can do well to use the word some of the youths are xenophobic �
This one wey him do come be like lie��

I agree.

IronGalaxy:
At this point now,Ramaphosa shouldn't even care explaining himself

I think he should also hold other leaders accountable for why their people are japaring. The heat's always on him and not the leaders who are misruling their countries.

TMKsouth:


I think he should also hold other leaders accountable for why their people are japaring. The heat's always on him and not the leaders who are misruling their countries.

Exactly!

IronGalaxy:
Exactly!

Naledi Pandor once voiced it, Ramaphosa should do the same. Otherwise this thing will never get solved if South Africans feel they are being scapegoated - there'll always be resentment.

What happened two years ago was a response to our own internal challenges of unemployment and poverty.

Sane countries respond with job creation through making use of their brains. South Africa and the dungeon called nigeria respond by killing foreigners in their land.

Zooposki:
Are Ghanaians not more xenophobic?

Do you know the meaning of xenophobic? Illiterate.

DeadCountry:


Sane countries respond with job creation through making use of their brains. South Africa and the dungeon called nigeria respond by killing foreigners in their land.

It's not the SA govt that was killing foreigners, it was frustrated unemployed people who feel the govt is prioritising migrants. So you're missing his point.

There are also issues of crime, because that wave of attacks was sparked by allegations of a foreigner having killed a South African. So give the guy a break - he's the one who went on a African tour apologising immediately afterwards.

LoL this word still has a meaning? It's pretty stale at this moment and we aren't deterred by it anymore.

DeadCountry:


Sane countries respond with job creation through making use of their brains. South Africa and the dungeon called nigeria respond by killing foreigners in their land.

Just like the Nigerian government responded with job creation when Ghanaians and other West African migrants were chased out of Nigeria in the 80's?


Isn't it funny how you talk about job creation when we the ones hosting economic refugees who come from countries whose government couldn't create jobs for their people? Whose burden is that to carry?

JaceBlaze:


Just like the Nigerian government responded with job creation when Ghanaians and other West African migrants were chased out of Nigeria in the 80's


Isn't it funny how you talk about job creation when we the ones hosting economic refugees who come from countries whose government couldn't create jobs for their people? Whose burden is that to carry?

You have no idea of history. Don’t talk about what you don’t know, boy.

Zooposki:


You have no idea of history. Don’t talk about what you don’t know, boy.

Oh then unpack it for me.What sparked it?

Good initiative by the SA president


But you see those myopic SA who killed there fellow Africans, they deserve Hell.

dasparrow:
Why is this ape face lying? So all the xenophobic attacks perpetuated by hateful BLACK South Africans that we have been reading about all these years along with pictorial evidence is all made up fallacy abi? Ramaphosa, keep deceiving yourself not us. Take your lying self back home abeg and don't forget to take Omicron with you.

he sounds like a monkey claiming he is not an ape.

Who is this monkey trying to deceive?
South afriktard black zoo monkeys are extremely xenophobic. Murthafucka who took their life of thousands of fellow Africans for the sake of what? Tag it poverty but we all knw it was hatred

If you are not xenos, how do you treat the people from Mozambique and Zimbabwe then?

Why is he even explaining that, only vultures call others xenophobes. Anyone(except Yoruba who are unserious people)will be xenophobic when you want to walk on his/her head.