Nigerians in South Africa, said South Africans have again staged attacks on foreign nationals in the country.
The President-General of Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa, NICASA, Mr. Benjamin Okoli, who disclosed this to journalists, said the latest attack happened on Thursday, last week.
According to him, foreign nationals and their businesses were attacked in Diepsloot, a township north of Johannesburg.
Okoli hinted that the attack started in the morning with locals going from shop to shop looting and burning shops owned by foreign nationals.
He said a Zimbabwean national was caught by the locals, who tied his legs, set him ablaze, and while he was struggling, the locals continued to hit him with sticks until he died.
Okoli further disclosed that though no Nigerian lost his life during the incident, their businesses were affected, as their shops were looted and some looted shops were set ablaze.
The president-general said that the situation was encouraged by Operation Dudula activists, who demanded that foreign nationals must leave South Africa.
According to Okoli, the locals always label Nigerians as drug dealers even when no Nigerians have been caught with drugs.
He also said that the Minister of Police Affairs, Mr. Bheki Cele, returned on Friday with Immigration and Police Officers and conducted a house-to-house search, for undocumented foreign nationals in the township.
Okoli also informed said that Mr. Muhammad Manta, Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa, had been informed about the ugly development.
