The advisory, signed by Consul General Ambassador Ninikanwa Okey‑Uche, highlights Johannesburg as a major hotspot, with protesters expected at Mary Fitzgerald Square from 10 a.m. before submitting a memorandum at noon, and similar disruptions expected in Pretoria, Cape Town, and Durban.
Nigerians are urged to avoid protest routes, stay alert, and consider closing their businesses temporarily, as foreign‑owned shops may be targeted.
This comes amid rising xenophobic tension, with about 130 Nigerians already registered for voluntary repatriation flights, while South African authorities have been notified to deploy security measures.
I wonder what Nigerians are still doing in that country after all the violence against immigrants in the previous years.
ReplyDeleteLeave their country, stop contributing to their economy. Let them do the jobs if they can.
From what I heard , the black South Africans are very lazy, greedy and wicked. They don't like to work.
Pack your bags and leave their country!
As in! safety first!
DeleteThese south Africans forget so easily.
ReplyDeleteHow Nigeria especially and other African countries helped and supported them unconditionally pre and post their Apartheid era,very ungrateful lots.
I don't blame them at all,it's the economic situation I blame...
This is a wake up call to whom it may concern to do better.
In d bid to claim “I also live abroad’, people risk their lives for nothing. What business is in SA except all crime related biz? Mtcheew!
ReplyDeleteSo you did not see shops or super markets??. Or you don’t know the naira value has plummeted?. Anakogheri
DeleteAnti - foreigner protests? And they have a President in that country?
ReplyDeleteAnd many African countries including Nigeria were shouting from the rooftops about the imminent release of Mandela from prison that era. Now they bully & k*ll their fellow Africans in their wickedness. What a disgraceful people. Abeg Nigerians should flee that region mbok.
If their govt is not saying anything, then there's a silent support from them. Deep look at this one will see that it's even the not well to do SA's been used.
ReplyDeleteAnd their citizens are failures o. The women are mostly prostitutes their men drunks lazy louts
ReplyDeleteBut Naija has its fair share of runs girls and ppl on droogs. Come on now, even these kidnappers and ritualists are rampant. Every post-colonial country have serious social problems.
DeleteAll I see are a people in collective trauma that have not been properly dealt with. These ppl accepted outsiders and paid dearly for it, now all these other outsiders are coming in and that fear has risen. The issue is deeper that it appears. Colonization has wrecked ppl and it is a terrible beast, still alive and well but now showing up in different ways.
ReplyDeleteTheir government should put some things into place to protect them if they feel unprotected. It could be new rules around property ownership, restriction on certain jobs that can only be done by South Africans, non-citizens must pay their own health insurance..etc. There are ways to protect them so they do not feel that way and still allow for immigrants. I see both sides of this and they should be petitioning their government to make changes instead of attacking innocent ppl. Plus, they should also be protesting all the other groups coming in not only west Africans. There are many Indi@ns, P@kistanis, Chin3se and other groups they should not be silent on them either. If you going to dislike immigrants then dislike them all, not just the African ones, this part is so annoying and shows the self-hate mindset that is still there. Those other ppl do not look like them, they will still try to bring back those systems in years to come, may be centuries but life loves to recycle. So they better put their energies into getting strict laws in place for their own protection and every country in Africa should do the same.
Africa is too open and most countries do not have good laws to protect their own citizens. Imagine individuals being able to come in and go right into gold mining, while local ppl do not have that opportunity, yet pay the local population peanuts, with no healthcare plan, company pension, life insurance should accidents happen. Ridiculous!
Abeg, keep quiet.
DeleteWhy is their trauma targeted at only BLACK foreigners? Eh justified?
00:15, Nigeria is dealing with the same xenophobia in the country, so why is it happening among Nigerians at home? Tribal problems are in Nigeria, k!llings, brutality, problems securing jobs, problems securing housing, so like I stated, the problem is deeper than it appears on the surface. Nigerians can’t fix their xenophobia problem at home is the one in South Africa they expect to fix.
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