Nigerians make up a large number of African migrants in South Africa and were among the most hit by the recent xenophobic violence.
“We cannot absorb the results of all the problems that are made by leaders who want to loot their countries, who do not care about their own people,” Blade Nzimande, the South African minister of higher educations, science and technology, said on Monday in Durban, while commenting on the bashing of his country over the xenophobic attacks.
“We met a short while ago with President Muhammadu Buhari to convey our President Ramaphosa’s sincerest apologies about the incidents that have recently transpired in South Africa,” Mr Radebe told journalists in Abuja. “Those incidents do not represent what we stand for as constitutional democracy in South Africa.”
“African leaders themselves must get their act together, such that they don’t destroy their country and people have to leave.“You can’t just blame South Africa, we are doing the best. But it is time we ask those leaders in our continent, ‘what are you doing to make your countries better places to live in?’”
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