Local residence living in Mpumalamga province in South Africa have attacked Nigerians in a fresh wave of xenophobic violence.
Control TV source in SA confirmed to us that one person thought to have died did ingsct survive while 4 others others were badly injured. Some property belonging to Nigerian interest were burnt down.
Investigations have commenced to determine the reason for the attack and to arrest perpetrators of the crime.
Preliminary ports say the attacks were targeted at a brothel in the area often heavily patronized.
A similar attack happened about 3 weeks ago; “a group of vigilante-like people organized themselves to stop and search mostly Nigerians in the city center. In the process they robbed their targets. Same thing was undertaken by taxi drivers association in Pretoria but Zimbabweans were mostly the victims of that act”.
This latest wave of attacks however comes a few weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari visited South Africa and called for the protection of Nigerians and other foreign nationals living in the country.
Buhari during the visit also condemned the xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg, South Africa’s capital which led to the looting of shops owned by foreign nationals.
He demanded that measures should be put in place to prevent the re-occurrence of the attacks.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in response repeatedly apologised over the attacks and reiterated his government’s “deep regret at the incidents of public violence.”
About 600 Nigerians returned from South Africa early in September after xenophobic violence in Johannesburg. The second batch of 315 Nigerians later returned mid September and many more have continued to leave South Africa in the wave of the deadly attacks.
(C) Control TV 2019.
