Mayor condemns xenophobic attacks
"My heart is oozing blood, my eyes burning with teardrops after the barbaric incidents we have recently witnessed as a nation," she said.
MBOMBELA – The executive mayor of the Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Cllr Letta Shongwe, was at the forefront of a peaceful march on Friday, expressing her dissatisfaction with fellow South Africans who participated in recent xenophobic attacks. Shongwe strongly condemned these attacks, describing them as “barbaric and demonic acts of violence” and pleaded with citizens to support one another during this difficult time.
“My heart is oozing blood, my eyes burning with teardrops after the barbaric incidents we have recently witnessed as a nation,” she said.
According to her it reversed all the gains made by this continent, and the hard-earned democracy, the country’s pride, image and the Freedom Charter, were now also at stake.
She, however, reassured that government would not sit back and be a spectator without trying to put a stop to these attacks. “We have come a long way as a country and continent and never at once will we allow a situation that will compromise our integrity,” she said.
Shongwe also took the time to sympathise with families who lost their loved ones in the attacks and said they would commit to ensuring that those who were displaced during the process, were reunited with their loved ones.
“These barbaric and violent acts are seriously condemned by all sober-minded South Africans and if there has ever been a time that we needed the support of our African brothers and sisters, that time is now more than ever before.”
Lowvelder spoke to various foreign nationals who took part in the march.
