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The SADC Council of NGO’s has called on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to take urgent action on the xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa.
SADC-Council of NGOs Executive Director Glenn Farred says the recent outbreak of violence in South Africa is a matter of grave concern for South Africa, the SADC region and Africa as a whole.
Mr. Farred says it is undeniable that a prevailing atmosphere of racist anti-African xenophobia has arisen in South Africa.
He says it is a matter of great alarm that political parties in South Africa, without exception, have pandered to narrow, vulgar and distorted nationalism which is not only legitimizing prejudice and bias, but feeds the cycle of hate and racism.
Mr. Farred adds that the continued violence in South Africa is a matter of grave concern for all Africans and must be placed urgently on the agenda of SADC to assist the government of South Africa to intervene in this situation.
He states that the South African Government and all SADC member States must guarantee the safety and respect for human rights of all foreign nationals present within their borders.