With South Africa’s economy in a downward spiral, locals have taken their frustrations out on fellow Africans and dozens of migrants have been murdered in the streets in cold blood.
During the attacks in January, the Minister of Small Business Development in South Africa said “Foreign shop owners must share their trade secrets with people in townships where they operate to curb violence and looting”
Meanwhile, the Nigerian foreign ministry has announced that the evacuation of its citizens in South Africa will begin on Monday, 20 April. Nigeria’s high commission in Pretoria has said that Nigerians who feel endangered and do not have the fare back home to quickly make themselves available for evacuation.
Lindiwe Zulu is The Minister of Small Business. She is Member of the ANC Women’s League NEC. She was the special advisor to the President on International Relations. She previously served as the head of communication for the PAN African women’s organisation in Angola in 1988. Zulu returned from exile in 1992 having lived in Tanzania, Uganda and Angola. She did military training in Angola while with the Pan Africanist Women’s Organisation
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