S.A XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS: NGO TAKES CASE TO AFRICAN UNION, RECALLS HOW NIGERIA HELPED SOUTH AFRICA IN 1994
S.A XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS: NGO TAKES CASE TO AFRICAN UNION, RECALLS HOW NIGERIA HELPED SOUTH AFRICA IN 1994 Authorities of a Nigerian based Non Governmental Organisation the Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ have condemned in strong term the current trend of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The Center noted that Xenophobia in South Africa significantly increased after Nigeria led other countries in the fight for the election of a government of black majority in 1994. National coordinator of the center, Comrade Mulade Sheriff while addressing jounalist in Asaba, the capital of Delta State expressed total disappointment over the attitude of South African youths toward African immigrants and while quoting a 2004 study published by the Southern African Migration Project (SAMP), the NGO said South Africans expressed the harshest anti-immigrant sentiment, with 21% of them in favour of a complete ban on foreign entry and 64% supporting strict limitations on ...