Burna Boy, AKA, YCee & More Get In a Heated Exchange Surrounding Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa

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Burna Boy, AKA, YCee & More Get In a Heated Exchange Surrounding Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa


As we've been reporting, South Africa is currently embroiled in violent xenophobic attacks. Our Johannesburg-based staff writer Rufaro Samanga has written:
"The center of Johannesburg is currently a surreal sight. Cars have been torched, businesses broken into and ransacked, foreign nationals are being violently attacked and police are admittedly struggling to maintain order. Just a week after xenophobic attacks erupted in Pretoria and two months after Nigerians were being attacked in Hillbrow, the country is experiencing yet another spate of xenophobic attacks which began yesterday. According to EWN, two people have been confirmed dead, including a woman who was shot at close range. A hundred others have been arrested thus far."

"The reasons for the xenophobic attacks echo the pervasive anti-immigrant sentiment around the world. In a country with growing inequality, unemployment and poverty, many disenfranchised South Africans feel that foreign nationals are responsible for the lack of job opportunities and increasing crime."
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Star musicians are now weighing in on the matter, with some heated exchanges taking place between big Nigerian artists like Burna Boy and Ycee and South Africa's AKA and Babes Wodumo, among several others.
The exchanges seemed to have started when YCee tweeted his opinion about South African feelings towards Nigerians, citing AKA's tweets back when South Africa lost in the AFCON quarterfinals earlier this year to Nigeria.
From there, it escalated to receive responses from AKA and M.I Abaga, as well as a strong string of tweets from Burna Boy, who stated: "I have not set foot in SA since 2017. And I will NOT EVER go to South Africa again for any reason until the SOUTH AFRICAN government wakes the https://jamii.app/JFUserGuide up and really performs A miracle because I don't know how they can even possibly fix this."
Read all the exchanges below.
 
Good for him and all members of your family.

babukijana said:
My blood Brothers safe hm now.what he tells! I can go with kalashnikov and let them RIP.
Wake upp brothers,leta call spade a spade no joke.😎
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Racism among ourselves do exist... what's happening is South Africa is sickening shocking hard to believe.
 
It is unfortunate how things have escalated in that country. But there is an omission on why this happened. It seems the source of all this saga began when a South African Taxi driver was shot dead by a Nigerian drug dealer in Cape town. When the taxi driver tried stop the dealer from selling drugs to South African youths, this dealer shot him dead with the police just nearby.

Lazima kuna tatizo halisemwi, how comes mashambulizi huwa yanawalenga aina fulani ya Waafrika na sio wote??

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/opin...ver-could-lead-to-xenophobic-attacks-31720358

Letters: Killing of Pretoria taxi driver could lead to xenophobic attacks
OPINION & ANALYSIS / 2 SEPTEMBER 2019, 2:21PM / TOM MHLANGA
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Police fired rubber bullets as protests erupted in the central business district of South Africa's capital Pretoria with rioters setting several small businesses in the area alight after taxi drivers clashed with drug dealers operating in the area. Picture: AP Photo/Yeshiel Panchia
After the alleged murder of the taxi driver in Pretoria on Tuesday last week, colleagues of the deceased took to the streets to a avenge his killing.
This is bad for South Africa. It is bad because people have now lost faith in the democratic institutions of government and, as a result, they end up taking matters into their own hands.

But then, who can blame them? We saw what happened in Johannesburg a few weeks ago, and the failure of the SADF that is deployed to deal with gang violence in Cape Town.
Clearly, things are not getting better when it comes to violent crimes in the country.
It is disturbing that taxi drivers are now targeting all foreigners as if it is all of them who were involved in the alleged murder of the taxi driver. The unintended consequences of this is the rise in xenophobia, which is accompanied by looting of shops belonging to street vendors.

Law enforcement agencies must intervene to deal with this matter before it gets out of hand. We don’t want to see history repeating itself with these xenophobic attacks. It will also help if our police come up with a better strategy to deal with drugs in this country.
 
BAK said:
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The issue not being discussed with honesty is that you do not help liberate South Africans only to go and sell drugs to their youths. What we see is a repercussion of these actions. It is not about some Ethiopians or Ghanaians owning consumer electronic shops. Until we come clean on this matter more violence will follow.

www.iol.co.za

Letters: Killing of Pretoria taxi driver could lead to xenophobic attacks

The writer says the violence that ensued after the killing must be dealt with before matters get out of hand.
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That number is overstated by a huge amount.,

Malcom Lumumba said:
Now this is one sick joke from Naija. USD 61 Billion is no child's game: If Africans had invested USD 300 they could have already dismantled Apartheid in 1975.
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