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SADC to support SA Xenophobia measures, and should discourage members from migrating to SA-Mugabe

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President Edgar Lungu with President Robert Mugabe after 4hours official talks at Harare Statehouse in Zimbabwe on Friday 06-02-2015 PICTURE BY EDDIE MWANALEZA/STATEHOUSE.
President Edgar Lungu with President Robert Mugabe after 4hours official talks at Harare Statehouse in Zimbabwe on Friday 06-02-2015 PICTURE BY EDDIE MWANALEZA/STATEHOUSE.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has resolved to support all measures the South African government has put in place to stop xenophobic attacks in that country.

SADC Chairperson Robert Mugabe said at the end of a one day regional bloc summit that member countries should not politicise the attacks but should instead be tolerant and help the South African government find a solution.

Mr. Mugabe said the government of South Africa had already put up
measures to sensitise local people against fighting foreigners living
in that country.

He said security has also been tightened in order to protect non-South Africans living there.

Mr Mugabe has meanwhile said SADC member countries should discourage their citizens from migrating to South Africa while those that are already there should be encouraged to return to their countries.

Yesterday, the Malawian government, whose people are the most affected by the xenophobic attacks, sent about 24 buses to repatriate its citizens from South Africa.

22 COMMENTS

  1. Which nation doesn’t have foreigners? Most of the xenophobia pepetraters are uneducated South Africans who can’t claim that foreigners are taking their jobs. How can someone who has never been to school claim that a doctor has taken his/her job? How many foreigners are in UK, USA, Audtralia etc? May God help us!

    • Barack Obama is the son of a Kenya immigrant/ visitor, and is president of the US. Development comes from tapping on available resources, foreign or local. The history of the world is the history of immigration. You can’t stop people moving across borders.
      Think of realistic solutions.

    • Can we also ensure that ALL South African companies ENSURE they do not send us South Africans (black, white, indian or colored) to run/work in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana why is everyone being so ball-less, I wish Naija was in the SADC region they appear to be the ONLY African nation with a pair.

    • Toothless SADC sometimes you wonder whether this chatting club is still relevant.
      You still tolerate rubbish from a man who rapes his friends HIV daughter and calmly says he took a shower?!

  2. What a load of crap! People pursue opportunities to get ahead in life. Even Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and, Mozambique have foreigners residing there. There are many South Africans living outside SA. No one stops them from leaving SA.

  3. I have worked with a lot of south Africans in North America and Europe. With the recent happening in RSA, i have been left to wonder what these south African colleagues are thinking. Molarity would call for them to return to South Africa. Am sure they should be more than the million immigrants being brutally murdered

  4. Look who’s talking…Mugabe you are very comfortable in your home country.Start by sharing your wealth with your fellow Zimbabweans that’s when you can stop them from migrating…

  5. I am a Zambian born and bred who’s birthrights have been denied by refusing to give me a dual citizenship

  6. At least they heard what the Zulu chief said about foreigners being lice which lives in somebody else’s head. Zuma nailed it when he said other lazy and greedy African leaders who have failed to develop their own banana republics are also culprits and must share blame for xenophobia. Mwanawasa said Zimbabwe was like the sinking titanic with it’s citizens jumping out and scampering for safety in RSA in search of food. How shameful for this ‘educated’ but cruel and vindictive dictator to have destroyed such a powerful economy. Lungu has adopted such a charlatan as his key adviser. No need to guess where Zambia is headed fast.

    • Point of correction! Zambia was already a basket case before Zimbabwe! So Lunga is only perpetuating what is already a “failed state”! Don’t blame Mugabe people! Zimbabwe is already making a comeback, but Zambia is has become the poorest nation in the world!! Shame on you Zambians.

  7. Mugabe as SADC Chairperson is simply supposed to be advocating for rule of law. Period. Anything outside that is OFF SIDE!

    The law on illegal immigrants is very clear, and it certainly does NOT include death sentence and looting their businesses. That’s what every well meaning human being is saying. Nothing more, nothing less.

    Suggesting that SADIC Countries should recall their Citizens from RSA is a joke, and going against UN Charter on people’s legal liberties on movement.

    Is Mugabe suggesting that intermarriages should be broken up and people should go back to their Countries of origin? And their offsprings should go where? And South Africans living in other Countries should go back to RSA?

    What sort of nonsense is this?

  8. Bwaaaha ha ha ha ha ha! Who discouraged anyone from dashing to joburg in the 18th century? Only those who didn’t have the capital and the sleepy ones dozed off during the discovery of gold in SA. It’s the same now so shut up Mugabe Shut up Zuma you can’t discourage bees from Gathering Around Flowers

  9. Mugabe and Zimbos stand to be the biggest beneficiaries of a non antagonistic approach to RSA as the country has the largest number of people in SA.

    Bob’s prescription of a solution is the most interesting however- it is more like telling adults they will have sex only once a month and with nobody else other the one they sworn to live with till kingdom come …!

  10. All illegal immigrants much move out of South Africa back to their respective countries! Why get to SA only to go and sell tomatoes and vegetables? Only those legal immigrants contributing to the economy and paying taxes must remain in SA! Such is the law elsewhere in the world!

  11. Get the Malawians back to poverty and dust in their hair!!! I can imagine how quickly they will seek ways to dash back to a cleaner and richer RSA!!! No one likes poverty. The leaders who are talking have their children studying in developed countries while they rush to developed countries’ hospitals at the hint of a headache. Their wives go shopping in London, Paris, New York, even for items in shops in their own countries. What with the mashrooming shopping malls stocking the latest fashions!! In RSA some of these immigrants were able to shop at Malls. Will they afford to do the same back in Zambia, Malawi etc?UUUmmmhh.

  12. New Zealand and Australia are full of immigrants from RSA. Zambia has many Zimbabweans, their beautiful girls and women doing almost anything to earn Kwacha to enable them buy their newly adopted legal tender, the USA Dollar in their own country. Zimbabwe has no currency of its own!!!

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