NPF ARRESTS, REPATRIATES CHADIAN FUGITIVE WANTED FOR MURDER IN N’DJAMENA.(PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday his country is "deeply concerned and ashamed" by how vigilante groups treated foreign nationals during recent anti-immigrant protests that forced thousands to flee the country.
“We cannot submit to the intimidation and harassment of people seen as coming from elsewhere (other countries),” Ramaphosa said while delivering a keynote address at a public lecture of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Durban ahead of the 46th ordinary summit of SADC heads of state.
He further said: “As South Africans we are deeply concerned and ashamed that nationals from other countries have in recent months been subjected to discrimination and ill-treatment and were even forced to leave the country under threat of violence.”
Over the past few months, vigilante groups in South Africa intensified their campaigns against undocumented migrants, staging protests and visiting homes, businesses and workplaces to demand identification documents and pressure immigrants to leave.
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