Xenophobia: Real reasons our people are attacking Nigerians, other foreigners – South Africa Foreign Minister, Pandor
ehind deadly attacks on foreign-owned businesses. This is coming a day after Pretoria was forced to shut its embassy in Nigeria over threats of retaliatory violence.On Wednesday, South African companies, MTN, and Shoprite closed stores in Nigeria after retaliatory attacks in one of the stores.
In an interview on the sidelines of a continental economic conference in Cape Town, Pandor said South Africa was in constant contact with Nigerian authorities and was also working to restore calm in areas affected by the violence. “There is a targeting of Africans from other parts of Africa, we can’t deny that. But, there is also criminality … because a lot of this is accompanied by theft,” she said, describing the attacks as a complex phenomenon whose root causes were not easy to define.
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