I start by imploring you to read this letter with an open and unbiased mind as this will enable you grab the full gist of my message.
I am a full blooded South African, born and bread in Soweto. I have never been to Nigeria and my impression of your Country is formed by the behaviour and actions of the many Nigerians who live in SA and what we hear and read from the media about the goings on in your country.
I deliberately joined Nairaland today as I noted that alot of you are on this Forum hence its a good platform to pass my message. Suffice it to say that i will delete this account after this message. I will read your responses with keen interest.

1. There is no question that there was xenophobic attack on Foreigners in SA in the past 3weeks. What is in doubt is the scale of the attack. I have noted that Nigerians have overtly blown the crises out of proportion by spreading lies and wrong informatiom concerning the crisis. The idea that South Africans are going round SA cities killing, maiming and burning Foreigners is a lie. Only 7 people have been killed so far and of these 7, 3 are south Africans, 2 Ethiopians and 2 Mozambican. The world media is in agreement with these figures. While its 7 lives too many that doesnt give credence to the news going round in Nigeria that we are killing and burning Foreigners. If thats true then there would be more people dead.
STOP BELIEVING WHATYOU READ AND WATCH ON social media as most are lies and fabricated figments of the imaginations of mischievous Nigerians in other to stoke the flame of discord between Nigeria and SA.

2. Why are Nigerians up in arms against SA with xenophobia when the war in Nigeria is far worse than here in SA. Boko haram is killing thousands your people everyday and theres no end in sight meanwhile no Nigerian has been killed in this Xenophobic attack. That is why Nigerians throng our embassies in Lagos and Abuja seeking Visas to come to SA and escape the despicable living conditions in the slums of Nigeria.

3. This recent Xenophobic attack was predicated on the fact that Foreigners commit so much heinous crimes in SA without impunity and we are tired of all these. We have our own criminals here so we cant add more problems from foreigners.
A. NIigerians are the kingpins of drugs killing our children and society. Your brothers drug our girls into prostitution. They con our people with fraud and 419. They hack into our bank accounts stealing millions.

B. Zimbabweans are involved in robberies and car hijackings

C. Mozambicans kill our farmers and take our jobs for peanuts leaving many South Africans jobless

D. Ethiopians and Somalians open shops to do illegal activities and pollute our communities. Theres a Somalian shop in every 2 houses on every street in SA. No Country can allow that.

SA has its own issues but we would like to solve them without the added problems of Foreign crimials.

If you like burn down shoprite and close MTN its your people that will suffer because these companies employ millions of Nigerians. They will simply go jobless.

Thank you

Where image of fake story about foreign child attacked by xenophobic mob comes from
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/iservice/rubber-bullet-did-this--daily-sun

Fake photos misrepresent xenophobic violence
http://ewn.co.za/2015/04/17/Fake-photos-misrepresenting-xenophobic-violence

Internet boasts false images of xenophobic violence in South Africa
http://observers.france24.com/content/20150417-south-africa-durban-immigrant-xenophobic-false-photos

Dear Mr. Xenophobia,

At first I thought your letter was emotionally sensible until I took my time to read through. It is such a huge shame that you lazy people are blaming others for your woes.

You made it look as if all foreigners especially Nigerians who reside in your country are all into illegal/shady businesses... that's a sign of inferiority complex, witchcraft and wizardry, envy etc...

If all these frivolous points of yours are true, why didn't your government come up with policies to checkmate all the illegal shop owners?

For the record, Nigerians are not running away to your country as postulated by you. The bokoharam menace is only confined to a certain threshold which is very small. Go back and study Geography of Africa and that of Nigeria especially.

Obviously, your people are very lazy and are not employable; else why would most companies/firm/organizations in SA employ Nigerians more than your people? If it's true though.

In the case of skill acquisition, it is glaringly obvious that your people are too lazy to acquire skills to go out and hustle like other foreigners there.

In terms of business or market competition, I'd rather your people should sit down, think and come up with innovative ideas on how to attract customers and climb the ladder of success instead of lagging behind and blaming others for their woes.

By the way, crime cannot thrive in a place without the contribution of indigenes.

If you must know, our GDP is far better than yours, so I wonder where you get this your irrelevant ideas of your economy being better than ours from.

Foreigners are everywhere; your people, Chinese, Americans, Indians, Europeans etc are all thriving well on the Nigerian soil, so stop feeling like your country is that important... I'm still trying to deduce the things that makes your country important.

Are you telling me that the 4 foreigners who lost their lives to your demonic xenophobic attacks were criminals? If yes, what was their crimes? Which of your courts convicted/sentenced them to death by mob attack.

Hahahahahaha... How do you expect multinationals to employ people who pronounces Worker as Weka? just kidding.

Please you need more education.

What's xenophobia? These guys r not xenophobic they r only killing fellow Africans. They sud of gone for the Afrikaans if they had any sense at all. Nigerians didn't make Dem slaves, we only helped them out of slavery. What's the fork?

Smh

That last line was unnecessary and insultive...andplease why has your president not made any serious move to stop it...lastly you are playingg with fire by taking our silence for stupidity

Well....I see some sense in his words

Media are the ones always causing and inciting prroblems.Thhat een said there is still no justification to take away anyone ones lige because YOU CAN'T CREATE ONE.

Okay.
...your letter did nothing to douse the tension, I consider this as a e-xenophobic attack. But being the big brother that we are, we are moving on to better things and issues of greater importance.
Next!

All these for 'foreigners' in your country?,why can't you state your own problems too.
All I know is that all what you wrote happens in all other nations i.e US and UK and its not blown to a massive proportion like this,Apart from the criminal aspect u stated,you people are very lazy.

babyfaceafrica:
That last line was unnecessary and insultive...andplease why has your president not made any serious move to stop it...lastly you are playingg with fire by taking our silence for stupidity

Our president has sent in the Army to stop the riots and attacks.

Unlike Jonathan who cant send in the army to stop boko haram

akunjohn:
All these for 'foreigners' in your country?,why can't you state your own problems too.
All I know is that all what you wrote happens in all other nations i.e US and UK and its not blown to a massive proportion like this,Apart from the criminal aspect u stated,you people are very lazy.

Our people are not Lazy...SA is the largest econmy in Africa and the most beautiful country because it was built by the hard work of black South african labourers.

Thandolwethu:



Our president has sent in the Army to stop the riots and attacks.

Unlike Jonathan who cant send in the army to stop boko haram

and it took 7 lives to be lost beffore he did that,he took an open confrontation by a lawmaker for him to to that,SA has to be careful when we start our own ,even the army won't be able to stop it,and I don't really even blame you lot,its the people who leave their homeland and move to somewhere less pleasing,those are the people giving you people mouth....

Thandolwethu:
[s]I start by imploring you to read this letter with an open and unbiased mind as this will enable you grab the full gist of my message.
I am a full blooded South African, born and bread in Soweto. I have never been to Nigeria and my impression of your Country is formed by the behaviour and actions of the many Nigerians who live in SA and what we hear and read from the media about the goings on in your country.
I deliberately joined Nairaland today as I noted that alot of you are on this Forum hence its a good platform to pass my message. Suffice it to say that i will delete this account after this message. I will read your responses with keen interest.

1. There is no question that there was xenophobic attack on Foreigners in SA in the past 3weeks. What is in doubt is the scale of the attack. I have noted that Nigerians have overtly blown the crises out of proportion by spreading lies and wrong informatiom concerning the crisis. The idea that South Africans are going round SA cities killing, maiming and burning Foreigners is a lie. Only 7 people have been killed so far and of these 7, 3 are south Africans, 2 Ethiopians and 2 Mozambican. The world media is in agreement with these figures. While its 7 lives too many that doesnt give credence to the news going round in Nigeria that we are killing and burning Foreigners. If thats true then there would be more people dead.
STOP BELIEVING WHATYOU READ AND WATCH ON social media as most are lies and fabricated figments of the imaginations of mischievous Nigerians in other to stoke the flame of discord between Nigeria and SA.

2. Why are Nigerians up in arms against SA with xenophobia when the war in Nigeria is far worse than here in SA. Boko haram is killing thousands your people everyday and theres no end in sight meanwhile no Nigerian has been killed in this Xenophobic attack. That is why Nigerians throng our embassies in Lagos and Abuja seeking Visas to come to SA and escape the despicable living conditions in the slums of Nigeria.

3. This recent Xenophobic attack was predicated on the fact that Foreigners commit so much heinous crimes in SA without impunity and we are tired of all these. We have our own criminals here so we cant add more problems from foreigners.
A. NIigerians are the kingpins of drugs killing our children and society. Your brothers drug our girls into prostitution. They con our people with fraud and 419. They hack into our bank accounts stealing millions.

B. Zimbabweans are involved in robberies and car hijackings

C. Mozambicans kill our farmers and take our jobs for peanuts leaving many South Africans jobless

D. Ethiopians and Somalians open shops to do illegal activities and pollute our communities. Theres a Somalian shop in every 2 houses on every street in SA. No Country can allow that.

SA has its own issues but we would like to solve them without the added problems of Foreign crimials.

If you like burn down shoprite and close MTN its your people that will suffer because these companies employ millions of Nigerians. They will simply go jobless.

Thank you][/s]

Utter rubbish. You put up a bunch of words together as intelligently as you possibly could and yet, it still reads as utter rubbish.

So because we are fighting Boko Haram, we should shut up about our African brothers being killed, injured, maimed and displaced?

And to your other point about MTN and Shoprite, if you haven't heard, Nigeria brings in about 40% of profits for both entities and while I would never advocate any form of violence but the power of economic boycott would have an impact on both entities. And for the record, the same crimes you accuse other Africans of, MTN and Shoprite are guilty of. They have poor staffing practices, cheat Nigerians of our hard earned money and don't build capacity of our people.

Finally, lol at Shoprite and MTN hiring millions of Nigerians...you might as well have said billions now...donkey

Well articulated bhuti wam...

Only 7 people were killed??Ain't they humans?Am sorry to say,you are nothing but a goat.

To every rumor there is an atom of truth......nigeria also need to put her house in order.....note dat am not in support of the xeno attack

Will US allow a single citizen of US to die for free?

So you came to nairaland to insult Nigerians and the Nigeria you've never been too. Don't worry, they'll kill your foreigner friends soon, maybe then you'll become wiser... Olori buruku somebody.

Thandolwethu:



Our president has sent in the Army to stop the riots and attacks.

Unlike Jonathan who cant send in the army to stop boko haram

You do not know what Jonathan did, don't talk about it.

You say we should stop believing the media, yet you form your opinions on Nigerians based on what the media says about Nigeria. How ironic.

But I agree with you that's it's unreasonable for SA business enterprises in Nigeria to be attacked as most people employed in these establishments are Nigerians.

Thandolwethu:



Our president has sent in the Army to stop the riots and attacks.

Unlike Jonathan who cant send in the army to stop boko haram

All these guys from other countries that have not faced terrorism will be saying rubbish.

Just two bombs in south africa, you will be a refugee in mozambique!

Ole oshi

"Only 7 people"
can u imagine such useless vituperation?
how dare u refer to loss of lives as "only"
nonsense

If Nigerians ate committing crime in SA, don't u guys know how to deport dem, or if possible make dem serve jail term.

Thandolwethu:
I start by imploring you to read this letter with an open and unbiased mind as this will enable you grab the full gist of my message.
I am a full blooded South African, born and bread in Soweto. I have never been to Nigeria and my impression of your Country is formed by the behaviour and actions of the many Nigerians who live in SA and what we hear and read from the media about the goings on in your country.
I deliberately joined Nairaland today as I noted that alot of you are on this Forum hence its a good platform to pass my message. Suffice it to say that i will delete this account after this message. I will read your responses with keen interest.

1. There is no question that there was xenophobic attack on Foreigners in SA in the past 3weeks. What is in doubt is the scale of the attack. I have noted that Nigerians have overtly blown the crises out of proportion by spreading lies and wrong informatiom concerning the crisis. The idea that South Africans are going round SA cities killing, maiming and burning Foreigners is a lie. Only 7 people have been killed so far and of these 7, 3 are south Africans, 2 Ethiopians and 2 Mozambican. The world media is in agreement with these figures. While its 7 lives too many that doesnt give credence to the news going round in Nigeria that we are killing and burning Foreigners. If thats true then there would be more people dead.
STOP BELIEVING WHATYOU READ AND WATCH ON social media as most are lies and fabricated figments of the imaginations of mischievous Nigerians in other to stoke the flame of discord between Nigeria and SA.

2. Why are Nigerians up in arms against SA with xenophobia when the war in Nigeria is far worse than here in SA. Boko haram is killing thousands your people everyday and theres no end in sight meanwhile no Nigerian has been killed in this Xenophobic attack. That is why Nigerians throng our embassies in Lagos and Abuja seeking Visas to come to SA and escape the despicable living conditions in the slums of Nigeria.

3. This recent Xenophobic attack was predicated on the fact that Foreigners commit so much heinous crimes in SA without impunity and we are tired of all these. We have our own criminals here so we cant add more problems from foreigners.
A. NIigerians are the kingpins of drugs killing our children and society. Your brothers drug our girls into prostitution. They con our people with fraud and 419. They hack into our bank accounts stealing millions.

B. Zimbabweans are involved in robberies and car hijackings

C. Mozambicans kill our farmers and take our jobs for peanuts leaving many South Africans jobless

D. Ethiopians and Somalians open shops to do illegal activities and pollute our communities. Theres a Somalian shop in every 2 houses on every street in SA. No Country can allow that.

SA has its own issues but we would like to solve them without the added problems of Foreign crimials.

If you like burn down shoprite and close MTN its your people that will suffer because these companies employ millions of Nigerians. They will simply go jobless.

Thank you

I agree with you that the proportion of the crisis in S.A is overblown by some sections of the media. The last section of your post is an attempt to justify xenophobic attacks in your country. I don't like S.A as a country because i don't really see anything special about the country.

VickJames:


All these guys from other countries that have not faced terrorism will be saying rubbish.

Just two bombs in south africa, you will be a refugee in mozambique!

Ole oshi

lol...

AdeniyiA:
"Only 7 people"
can u imagine such useless vituperation?
how dare u refer to loss of lives as "only"
nonsense

Upambene wena Adeniyi...i said its '7 lives too many'"

Thandolwethu:



Our president has sent in the Army to stop the riots and attacks.

Unlike Jonathan who cant send in the army to stop boko haram

Do you think fighting terrorism is like quarying riot. Don't wish yourself harm.

@Op, you started by saying read this letter with an unbiased mind, where you unbiased in your letter?

Before shop rite n your whatever came here we were living fine, so with or without it we will still be fine ,that should not be used to blackmail us!!

Yes ,we have terrorist issue at hand, n we are still this strong, if ''your'' so glorified S.A ,taste half of what we have had,she would have ceased to exist by now!

Are there no S.Africans in other countries? I guess they are also escaping the slumps and animalistic behaviour, of their fellow S.Africans, cos I wonder how 3 S.Africans would have died in an attack they started!!!

if Zuma, want foreigners to leave your country, he should be civilized enough to come out directly to tell them ,not cowardly hiding behind one hate statement.

thank you!!

Vorp:
Only 7 people were killed??Ain't they humans?Am sorry to say,you are nothing but a goat.

sorry about what? there is nothing to be sorry about you were damn right!!!!

Before I comment tell me the meaning of Thandolweth

Black South Africans are idi.ots i swear. How dare you compare terrorism with xenophobia, if the citizens of other countries are not welcome to your glorified shi.thole why not deport them instead of killing them. The images that came out of south africa last week shows clearly that most of you are thieves and bunch of lazy idi.ots going about looting shops that belong to hard working people