Daily Nigerian
Nigerians living in South Africa have asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to protect them and their properties from xenophobic attacks.
The Nigerian community in that country made the request amid the recent wave of hostilities against foreigners in South Africa.
The Nigerian community, under the aegis of Nigeria Union South Africa, NUSA, made the request in a statement signed by the President of NUSA, Collins Mgbo and e-mailed from Pretoria, South Africa.
“I call on President Cyril Ramaphosa to help our community during this trying time so that we may not lose our brothers again” xenophobic attacks, Mr Mgbo said.
The NUSA president said foreigners became even more worried when a group of more than 2,000 people recently demonstrated against migrant workers as part of “Operation Dudula’’.
Mr Dudula, a Zulu word which means “drive back’’, has gained popularity as a sign of growing anti-immigrant sentiments in South Africa, a country that has seen the level of unemployment worsen and poverty further worsened by the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
“The Operation Dudula group turned up in a mob of several hundred at a migrant centre in South Africa’s Soweto township, with the unemployed, wielding weapons and angry with foreigners they accuse of taking their jobs, chanting `Foreigners, go home’,’’ Mr Mgbo said.
He explained that NUSA was worried about the safety of Nigerians in South Africa when the groups began with their illegal acts of abuse and destruction of properties and businesses owned by foreigners, and Nigerians in particular…
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