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African Nations Concerned About Some Violent Anti-Illegal Immigration Protests in South Africa Says Lamola International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola says several African countries have raised concerns about the violent nature of some anti-illegal immigration protests in South Africa. Lamola said South Africa's counterparts across the continent recognise...

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President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia - where the ANC and its military wing uMkhonto weSizwe, together with their closest ally, Zapu and Zipra from Zimbabwe, were based during the liberation struggle - says xenophobic and violent anti-immigrant protests against black African migrants is wrong and must be stopped. Hichilema was echoing the same grave concerns expressed by many other African leaders, ordinary Africans and the world over the xenophobic, Afrophobic and ethnophobic attacks on foreigners by vigilante groups like tMarch and March led by Jacinta Zinhle Ngobese-Zuma who is rabidly anti-black immigrants. Her organisation was even promoting tribal prejudice and hate songs, especially against the Shangani people. As a result, the world is saying to South Africa, every country has sovereign authority to enforce its laws and deal with illegal migration, but no one has a right to treat other people - Africans in this case - in an inhuman, violent and cruel manner. South Africa, people across the continent say, must address the issue of illegal immigrants through its own constitution and the law, not vigilantism, lawlessness and barbarism. Ordinary South Africans blame immigrants for unemployment, crime, drugs, social service delivery failures, and social decay, among many other things. Vigilante groups have been taking the law into their own hands and going to clinics and schools to harass and block immigrants from accessing public services. They have been going around asking people for their IDs or passports - apartheid-style - claiming to be "cleaning up" the country, which is all unlawful. Further, they also have been invading small-to-medium enterprises, purporting to be flushing out foreigners, harassing owners and closing some of them, to justify extortion and looting at times. These ugly scenes have angered large parts of Africa and the world, while damaging the country's reputation. However, the majority of South Africans - who understand how the economy and the world work - do not support vigilante groups, xenophobia and violence. Most South Africans are not xenophobic, but have concerns about illegal immigration and its impact on their country and society. African leaders agree that illegal immigration must be addressed, but condemn the xenophobic and Afrophobic hostility and violence by anti-immigrant groups and extremists. Hichilema reminded South Africa how his country and many others sacrificed so much helping black South Africans to be free. Countries in the region supported, sheltered, fed, trained, funded and protected South African freedom fighters at a huge human life and financial cost at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle. Over one million people died and billions were lost in the region during apartheid South Africa's campaign of destabilisation which destroyed infrastructure, utilities and stopped development in other countries. Frontline States and other African countries helped South Africa to gain freedom through political, diplomatic, material, financial and logistical support. Vigilante group leaders, who thrive on propaganda, false narratives and exaggerated statistics, either ignore or don't know all that. So, Africans say South Africa does not owe these countries and their people anything, but it should never forget their sacrifices - the human life, financial and logistical costs on its behalf - when dealing with illegal immigrants and relating to blacks. In other words, they are saying South Africa must deal with illegal immigration without forgetting where it comes from, especially the black people whose history and destiny is tied to the rest of other Africans across the continent.

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