African nations decry xenophobic attacks in SA

Violence erupted in KwaZulu-Natal three weeks ago and has since spread to parts of Gauteng over the past few days.

 

Radio QFM in Zambia has banned South African music in response to the ongoing attacks.

 

Managing director Asan Nyama says they're deeply unsettled with what's happening in South Africa.

 

"South African music depicts South African culture, but killing people from other parts of the world is not part of South African culture," he says. "South Africans are not bad people."

 

 

QFM News Editor David Bweupe says a protest against the xenophobic attacks is currently underway in Zambia.

 

"The protest will proceed to the South African High Commission to register their dissatisfaction with what is going on," he says.

 

 

 

News24 reported Zimbabweans are planning to march to the South African Embassy in Harare.

 

Zimbabwe correspondent Zenzele Ndebele says Zimbabweans are planning to boycott South African business at the International Trade Fair, which begins on 28 April.

 

He says South African kwaito group Big Nuz has cancelled a music show scheduled to take place in Bulwayo on Friday.

 

Big Nuz says they want to focus on helping sort out the xenophobic outbreak in South Africa.

 

Rapper Casper Nyovest announced on Twitter he will not cancel his show in Zimbabwe, and instead will donate the royalties to survivors of the attacks.

 

This comes in the wake of threats from Zimbabweans to boycott South African music and shows.

 

 

On Friday, South Africans in Mozambique were told to pack up and go back home.

 

A truck driver and a business man told JacaNews they were forced to turn back at the Komatipoort Border because it's unsafe to enter the area.

 

 

Meanwhile, King Goodwill Zwelithini is expected to hold an imbizo On Monday to stop the current xenophobic attacks.

 

Zwelithini has been among the people blamed for the spate of xenophobic attacks, after he told a community in KwaZulu-Natal that illegal foreigners should be deported.

 

For more on the recent attacks, see the video below.

 

 

 

(Edited by Laila Majiet)

(File photo: @Maryke Vermaak )