Zim wants to boycott SA musicians

Zimbabwean correspondent Zenzele Ndebele says messages are making the rounds on social media to boycott South African music and musicians to send a strong message against xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

 

“Two prominent South African musicians are performing in Bulawayo this weekend. Zimbabweans are calling to boycott the shows to send a message to South Africa to stop the attacks on foreign nationals”, he says.

 

Kwaito group Big Nuz and Casper Nyovest are expected to perform in Bulawayo.

 

Five people were killed after an outbreak of xenophobic violence in Durban over the weekend, three months after attacks on foreign shop owners in Soweto.

 

Over 1000 foreigners from Zimbabwe, Burundi, Malawi and Mozambique have been displaced because of the attacks.

 

Ndebele says Zimbabweans are not satisfied in the way the South African government is handling the situation.

 

“People are saying prominent figures such as celebrities and politicians are not doing enough to stop these attacks, they are the people who can change this but they are not doing anything”, he says.

 

 

Meanwhile the South African Human Rights Commission is investigating remarks made by King Goodwill Zwelithini that foreigners should be deported to their own countries. 

 

Zwelithini reportedly told a community in KwaZulu Natal that foreign nationals take economic opportunities meant for locals.

 

(Edited by Sune' Du Toit)

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