The Acting Resident Coordinator for the United Nations in South Africa, Ayodele Odusola, has expressed deep concern over recent and ongoing acts
of violence against foreign nationals that have been spreading across several parts of the country, particularly in the Gauteng Province.
He called on all stakeholders to be part of the solution by refraining from saying or sending inciteful messages within and outside South Africa. The political leaders, the law enforcement agencies, the organised private sector, community leaders, civil society organizations, citizens and the international community must be vanguards and ambassadors of social cohesion.
Answering a question in an interview in Cape Town last Thursday where she was attending the World Economic Forum on Africa, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said, “There isn’t anything that justifies the level of violence against another person for trying to make a livelihood and, in particular, in the African context, a guest in your home should not be harmed.”
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