This nonsense from South African nationals against our compatriots in their country must be stopped forthwith.
But for our decency and civility, we would have opted for a reciprocal brutish reaction on their nationals within our country and their interests, which are many.
Don’t they know that such crude treatment of nationals of fellow African countries does not augur well for the African unity for which the African Union (AU) was set up?
And they have the effrontery to tell our compatriots in their country to go back to their country and fix it, as if there is a paradise of goodness.
Whoever told the Boers and Zulus that they have a country which does not require fixing?
A South Africa which is experiencing the highest rate of murder and rape than any other on the continent needs urgent fixing than Ghana which is relatively safe. Such garbage from fellow Africans. We won’t take this imbecility from any country’s nationals, not even others on the other hemisphere.
Yes we agree our compatriots in their country are economic migrants, but they are not paupers who should be treated like scum.
We are a proud people with an outstanding pedigree which parallels Chaka the Zulu.
We cannot take this nonsense any longer at the hands of these xenophobic Africans who have all too soon forgotten about the support they received from us when apartheid denied them humanity and self-esteem.
Today, they have forgotten when Kwame Nkrumah opened our doors to their fighters to take refuge here.
The expression ‘Ghana became a Mecca for African liberation fighters under Kwame Nkrumah’ has a place in the history books on the struggle for independence and for verifiable reasons.
What an ungrateful bunch of people who think they are better than their fellow Africans!
We demand a reaction from our Foreign Affairs Minister as the matter under review can escalate to life-threatening level given the psyche of the average South African.
There are many Ghanaians in South Africa, and as the reports about the xenophobia they are enduring continue to reach us at home, family members should be going through mental torture thinking about their sons, daughters and friends in the ‘devil’s den’.
The South African Ambassador should be summoned by the Foreign Affairs Minister in line with diplomatic protocol and told in the face about the unacceptable treatment being meted out to our compatriots.
A delay in doing this would reduce the subject to nothingness, which it is not.
We demand of the South African authorities an assurance of the necessary police protection against the unemployed South Africans who think that Ghanaian migrants are the cause of their plight.
In the absence of a reversal of the xenophobic traits against our people, we would demand a boycott of patronage of South African supermarkets in the country and other interests belonging to them.