The South African High Commissioner to Ghana Lulu Xingwana has asked African governments to create jobs for their citizens to discourage them from travelling to South Africa for greener pastures.
Xingwana said this Wednesday in a reaction to the latest xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The attacks have left five dead in riots in Johannesburg, where foreign-owned shops were targeted on Monday, a recurrence of the 2015 attacks that left at least seven people killed.
“And this starts from poverty, all of our countries must create jobs and opportunities for their people so that we don’t all flock to one country because the one country would not be able to cope. If all of us were coming to Ghana, would you cope? Would you?” she said on Starr Today on Starr FM.
“That’s why I say it’s crime, it’s poverty, in Ghana in South Africa, in Zimbabwe, in Nigeria everywhere. And then people will leave these countries and any other country and think they can find something in South Africa,” she added.
Xingwana said it was wrong for anyone to attribute the violence being recorded in South Africa to hatred of other African nationals.
She said the attacks were not directed to foreign nationals and that it is a crime associated with poverty.
“We have a responsibility, all of us to create jobs and opportunities for our people and not look at one country to do it,” she emphasized.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe has condemned the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa, describing it as barbaric.
“It clearly offends the spirit of African unity and solidarity as espoused by the African Union Founding fathers in Addis Ababa in 1963,” Zimbabwe’s Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said in a statement.
According to Mutsvangwa, the senseless orgy of violence in South Africa come at an “inopportune time when African leaders have just launched a Continent-wide Africa Free Trade Area which has opened exciting economic opportunities that facilitate free movement of capital, labour, goods and services.”
Ghana’s former President, John Maham blamed the South African government for the latest xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
Describing the attacks as heartless in a tweet Wednesday Mahama asked the South African government to assume responsibility for “these inhuman actions and implement urgent steps to prevent these attacks from recurring in the future.”
He said, “the perpetrators of these gruesome attacks are ignorant of the continental solidarity that was required to defeat apartheid and give birth to the new South African nation.”
Meanwhile, Ghana’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Charles Owiredu has said no Ghanaian has so far been attacked in the xenophobic insurrection in South Africa.
He also noted there are no reports that Ghanaian-owned shops or interests have been hit in the attacks.
Source: Starrfmonline.com
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I feel very sorry for the South African High Commissioner for her statement. If everyone stays in his own country, would she represent her country here. Won't she remain unemployed. Has she thought of ensuring that all South African products remain in her country to see what would happen there. Talk they say is cheap. I rest my case.
Good point there madam ,the truth shall set us free When our few priveledge ones that by default found themselves in positions use the scarce resources to satisfy their families and their cronies, that what happens, we fancy talking in Africa than doing what is expected of us,sweet talking the citizens and the few and blind followers will be singing their praises that what happens. Imagine a country of 28 millions having all these mushrooms ministers with their aids sucking dry the limited resources we got, what would be left to create jobs ,God save us all..
Maybe you should start by evacuating all your people and business interests in other African countries to create some space for jobs. And again, maybe you should stop painting a picture of a green and prosperous South Africa when you yourselves haven't done much for your own people. These foreigners come over there to toil and make money while you just encourage a culture of entitlement for your lazy people. Tell your people to get to work themselves. The world owes them nothing. What irresponsible talk.
its a trash talk madam...we are one and we need to work together as brothers and sisters...whts wrong with as? we're not demons,we're humans come on...
This woman has just hit the nail on the head. Our African leaders have failed us and that is the truth. There was this breakdown of how much is spent on one minister of state, which is almost GH¢700,000.00 for a month. Multiply this amount by 110 minsters x 4 years excluding their ex-gratia and you see the kind jobs that can be created. Our leaders have really really failed us.
These woman needs to be sent back to her country by the gov't. She is in full support of what is going on in her country SA. Maybe we will have to sent all South African citizens who are also doing business and farmers here back to SA. nonsins
Have you forgotten what GUTA did recently in Ghana? are you not aware of what our traders in ghana are also complaining that foreigners are taking their businesses? did not you hear that our traders also locked stores belonging to Nigerians? what did we do ? our leaders should wake up and stop that corrupt practices which is going in the country so that more jobs could be created to reduce the of our people travelling outside the country. It is very bad though for the south Africans to do such things to their fellow Africans but our leaders should sit up.
***barred word*** the remove all the embassies and all the south african diplomatic missions abroad, the government body of SA is in support of this barbaric and inhumanity behavior we will also attack them they move all their companies back to their country, MTN stanbic and so on prepare to move from Ghana we dont need you here else we will also start burning your centers and killing your people south african airways should come to ghana again we dont need them ***barred word*** people. Lazy people