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Nigeria Demands African Union Action Over Renewed South Africa Xenophobia

Nigeria Demands African Union Action Over Renewed South Africa Xenophobia

The Nigerian government has called on the African Union and the South African government to take decisive and definitive measures to protect Nigerian citizens and other Africans within South African borders. The Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, made the call Monday amid reports of renewed violence […]

Minister Malusi Gigaba Condemns Xenophobia Threats, Blames Foreign Opposition Parties for the Scary Social Media Texts

Minister Malusi Gigaba Condemns Xenophobia Threats, Blames Foreign Opposition Parties for the Scary Social Media Texts

SOUTH AFRICA’s Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has threatened to prosecute Zimbabwe’s opposition if it was found to be among those creating fake but alarming social media messages threatening xenophobic attacks in that country. Gigaba said this in the wake of violence threats sent via social media by some unknown persons to instil fear on […]

2017 Xenophobia :South Africa’s Home Affairs Promises to Prosecute All Instigators of Xenophobia

2017 Xenophobia :South Africa’s Home Affairs Promises to Prosecute All Instigators of Xenophobia

The Department Of Home Affairs and the Ministry Of State Security would like to send a strong message to the instigators of xenophobia, violence, looting or any kinds of thuggery. It has come to the attention of the South African government that locals and foreigners alike are creating fake and deceitful messages to be circulated […]

Xenophobia Back in South Africa: 7 Zimbabweans Killed in Pretoria By a South African Group Known as The Community

Xenophobia Back in South Africa: 7 Zimbabweans Killed in Pretoria By a South African Group Known as The Community

AfricaMetro can confirm that there are reports circulating on social media that 7 Zimbabwean people have been killed today in Pretoria,Hamanskraal by the South African group known as The Community.The people who were killed due to xenophobia outbreaking in gauteng province include,John Magodo,Thomas Muganhu,Ku Mazviro, Luis Ponai,Dudzai Mvari, Sesel Vhari and Dembe Lloyd who was […]

Immigrant-Owned Shops Looted in South Africa

Immigrant-Owned Shops Looted in South Africa

Immigrant-owned businesses have been ransacked and looted in St Francis Bay, Eastern Cape, and the shopkeepers have fled. This comes after a week of violence, apparently sparked by two murders and an assault. First, Eyob Madamo, a 27-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, was murdered in his shop in KwaNomzamo, Humansdorp, on 5 May. A community member […]

Cassper Nyovest To Perfom In the UK

Cassper Nyovest To Perfom In the UK

RAPPER Cassper Nyovest who, in May, donated performance fees to Zimbabwe victims of xenophobia, is set to perform in the UK this weekend. Organisers said Nyovest will begin his performance on Friday at CLF Arts Café in Peckham and continue on Saturday at Reservoir Rd, Birmingham. Featuring will be DJs Neptizzle, Xavier Ofishal, WellyTee, Xolani […]

Mugabe responsible for South Africa’s xenophobia attacks says Morgan Tsvangirai

Mugabe responsible for South Africa’s xenophobia attacks says Morgan Tsvangirai

HARARE—Zimbabwe’s Former Prime Minister and founding Movement for Democratic Change president, Morgan Tsvangirai, says leaders like President Robert Mugabe are responsible for xenophobia attacks that recently left seven people dead in South Africa. In his state of the nation address on Saturday, Tsvangirai said, “South Africans are not responsible for xenophobia leaders like Robert Mugabe […]

How Zambia Prevented Xenophobia – Lessons for South Africa

How Zambia Prevented Xenophobia – Lessons for South Africa

OPINION By Isaac Nkama ‘Isaac, we can no longer go to the movie today. We have a curfew,’ my late dad told me. ‘I understand, dad,’ I responded – and I genuinely did. This was a conversation taking place on a Saturday at home in Ibex Hill, in my hometown of Lusaka in 1978. I […]

South Africa Deports Hundreds of Mozambicans

South Africa Deports Hundreds of Mozambicans

The official death toll is seven with South Africans authorities claiming the murder of one Mozambican man was a case of criminality and not xenophobia-related. Some of the returned Mozambicans said on Saturday that they were arrested and taken to a detention centre when they were found in South Africa without proper documents. In mid-May, […]

What South African xenophobia, Ebola, and Nairobi flooding have in common

What South African xenophobia, Ebola, and Nairobi flooding have in common

Making cities work is a much tougher job than cutting through bush to build a road, and reviving a tourism industry is not like growing maize IN the last seven days, three stories have emerged out of Africa, and though at first glance they seem unrelated, they hint to a changing Africa, and why it […]

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