NGUGI: Lessons from xenophobic killings and myths of loving each other to death...
Zulu residents of the Jeppe Men Hostel scream waving batons in the Johannesburg CBD on September 3, 2019 after South Africa's financial capital was hit by a new wave of anti-foreigner violence. PHOTO | MICHELE SPATARI | AFP
President Muhammadu Buhari was recently in South Africa to meet with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa. The visit followed xenophobic violence that left scores of foreign Africans in South Africa dead or injured.
In 2008, another wave of violence left about 60 foreign Africans dead. The extreme barbarity of these attacks is captured by a picture that did rounds on social media some years ago.
