Regardless of the xenophobic attacks and threats on the lives of foreigners in South Africa, life is better there than it is in Ghana, Sarah, a Ghanaian resident in South Africa, has said.
There have been concerns for Ghanaians living in South Africa in the wake of renewed attacks on foreigners by locals to return home. Locals say African immigrants have taken over their jobs, leaving them battling with unemployment and hardship.
But asked if she would want to return to her native Ghana to escape the danger, Sarah, speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Class 91.3FM on Monday 27 February, said it pays to work in South Africa than in Ghana.
“In Ghana, nobody is going to pay you a commission [but] here if you work…your commission is 40 per cent of whatever you make within the week and it’s a lot of money when you bring it to Ghana. So, in Ghana, as you work for a whole month for them to pay you GHS150 or GHS200, here you are taking 8000 rand (GHS2777) a month. Some people are even taking 15,000 rand as their commission, so it’s far better here than to come back to Ghana. That is why we are still here upon all these problems,” she told show host Moro Awudu.
The xenophobic attacks, led by black South Africans, has mainly targeted other black Africans especially Nigerians, who they accuse of taking their jobs and women.
Foreign nationals at the receiving end of the attacks have teamed up to fight against the black South Africans.
Meanwhile, 18 Ghanaians have so far been rescued in the country from the attacks, according to Ghana’s mission there.
Five were first recused followed by another 13.
They have all been taken to Lynnwood, which is safer. So far, over 140 people have been arrested in Pretoria over the attacks.
Source: classfmonline.com
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I live in pretoria. its not true that the ghana embassy has rescued 13 ghanaians. i dont know who said that rubbish. everyone in pretoria knows its false
Ghanaians will never say anything without mentioning Nigeria especially negative things ooh you people will not kill us ooo
This is ***barred word*** talk.
I blame the shitty Ghanaian government for not providing better means for their own people. Their education system sucks, there are no jobs for young people. Shame on Ghana. It's 2017 already.
I can see that woman is not serious. She like money than her life.please allow her to die.
Money & life which is priceless? For the Ghanaian in South Arica he or she thinks money. How pathetic!
This is a very dangerously one sided description of diasporian Ghanaian's economic fortunes. When you tell us of a minimum of R8,000, you must tell us the rent charges, utility bills, transport fares, grocery bills, etc. plus the constant harassment and threats on their lives and the remainder for savings to be able to appreciate whether or not life in RSA or any where else is better than Ghana. Go to Germany, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Spain, France and see the deplorable state of Ghanaians some of whom were LIVING BETTER IN GHANA but don't even have what it takes to return home. Such blanket description of the difference is what has lured many a young people into the entrapment in the diaspora.