Tag: South Africa
Omotola For ONE Campaign In South Africa
Funsho Arogundade Top Nollywood actress and activist, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde will be heading soon to South Africa to join the ONE…
Halima Abubakar Condemns Xenophobic Attacks
Kayode Aponmade Nollywood star actress, Halima Abubakar has condemned the recent xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa. The actress…
Xenophobia: AFBA to drag S.Africa to UN Security Council
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Members of the African Bar Association (AFBA), have threatened to file criminal complaints against the government of the…
Peace returns to Durban, South Africa – Consul-General
Mokgethi Monaisa, Consul-General, South African High Commission in Nigeria, says the violence in Durban has come to an end and…
SERAP drags South Africa to ICC over xenophobic attack
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has requested the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Mrs. Fatou Bensouda to use…
S.African police say murdered nun, 86, may have been raped
Police in South Africa were on Thursday investigating whether an 86-year-old nun of Austrian origin found murdered had also been…
Obanikoro leads protests to S.Africa over anti-immigrant attacks
Nigeria has complained to South Africa about a wave of attacks targeting foreigners and called on Pretoria to punish the…
South Africa Shuts Lagos Consulate
Following anti-Xenophobia protests in Lagos and Abuja, the South African consulate in Lagos has been shut. P.M.NEWS gathered that the…
S.Africa Govt responsible for xenophobic attack – NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Tuesday in Abuja said the South African Government should be held responsible for the…
President Zuma Moves To End Killings In S/Africa
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has called together all stakeholders and leaders in government, to get together on Wednesday…
The Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa
The extra-judicial killings in South Africa, also known as xenophobic attacks, are a sad commentary on the failure of leaders…
South Africa: Xenophobic Attacks Tantamount To Societal Madness
Reports reaching the world from South Africa have it that the country has been reduced to a scene of carnage…
Xenophobia: Nigerian Union plans resettling 50 Nigerians
The Nigerian Union in South Africa has said that it has concluded arrangements to resettle 50 Nigerians affected by the…
Zuma pleads with foreigners to stay in South Africa
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday pleaded with foreigners to stay in South Africa as he cancelled a state visit to…
Xenophobia: Buhari backs efforts to protect Nigerians
The Nigerian President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, says he is in full support of the steps taken so far by the…
Zuma cancels trip over xenophobia
South African President Jacob Zuma said Saturday he has cancelled a state visit to Indonesia in order to deal with…
Xenophobia: Zambian radio station stops playing S/African music
A radio station in Zambia on Friday black out the playing of South African music in protest against xenophobic attacks…
VIDEO: TB Joshua predicted S.Africa xenophobic attacks in 2013
A video has surfaced of Nigerian Prophet Temitope Babatunde Joshua warning South Africans in July 2013 of a ‘youth revolt’…
AU condemns South Africa xenophobic attacks
The African Union (AU) on Thursday in Addis Ababa, described the South Africa xenophobic attacks on foreigners as unacceptable and…
Xenophobia: Rep calls for evacuation of Nigerians from S.Africa
Rep. Nnenna Elendu-Ukeje, Chairperson, House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, has called for the evacuation of Nigerians within 24…
Zuma appeals for end to xenophobic attacks
South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday appealed for the end of attacks on immigrants as a wave of violence…
S.African police vow to halt spread of xenophobic attacks
South African police on Thursday vowed to quell a wave of anti-immigrant violence after attacks spread to Johannesburg overnight and…
S.Africa ruling party condemns xenophobic violence
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party on Wednesday condemned a wave of attacks against immigrant shopkeepers that has left…
3 die of xenophobic violence in South Africa
At least three people described as foreign nationals have been killed in a wave of xenophobic violence in the South…
Mugabe in South Africa for first state visit in 20 years
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe visited South Africa on Wednesday in his first state trip to the country since 1994 as…
S.African girl, 15, caught trying to join Islamic State
A 15-year-old South African girl was on Sunday pulled from a flight moments before trying to leave the country to…
SA mercenaries in Nigeria: apartheid-era veterans
South Africa was one of the first countries in the world to ban mercenaries but remains a major supplier of…
S.African mercenary killed in fight against Boko Haram
A South African mercenary was shot and killed by friendly fire during operations against Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria, a…
Foreign mercenaries arrive Nigeria to battle Boko Haram
JOHANNESBURG/DAKAR (Reuters) – Nigeria has brought in hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union to give…
Woman bailed in dramatic S.African baby-snatching case
A woman charged with stealing a newborn baby from its sleeping mother 17 years ago was granted bail by a…