Special envoy to South African President Ramaphosa has tendered his country’s apologies for the recent attacks on Nigerians and other Africans living and working in South Africa.
At a meeting today at the Villa, Jeff Radebe who was in Nigeria‘s capital, Abuja, to convey “sincerest apologies about the incident that has recently transpired in South Africa”, said “The incident does not represent what we stand for,” Radebe added that South African police would “leave no stone unturned, that those involved must be brought to book”.
Foreign workers in South Africa have become victims of anti-immigrant violence with at least 12 killed.27 minutes ago
A South African envoy to President Cyril Ramaphosa apologised “profusely” to the Nigerian government after a spate of deadly xenophobic attacks that rocked Johannesburg and Pretoria.
“The incident does not represent what we stand for,” Radebe said, adding South African police would “leave no stone unturned, that those involved must be brought to book”.
A statement from the presidency reports President Buhari as “pledging that relationship between the two countries will be solidified.”
Xenophobic attacks over the past couple of days affecting foreign workers in South Africa had led to evacuation of 187 Nigerians from South Africa with another 319 expected to be evacuated by Thursday.
The violence sparked an international outcry and calls for a boycott of South Africa.
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