King Goodwill Zwelithini called for a stop on the attack of foreigners and gender-based violence.

The king was speaking to thousands of people who flocked into the Stanger High School Grounds in KwaDukuza for the annual Umkhosi weLembe yesterday (formally known as Shaka Day).

The King said to put an end to the attacks on foreigners, and that traditional leaders needed to be part of that process.

He said if that does not happen, the attacks will continue because some things do not require politicians or academics to solve, but required traditional leaders because they were the pillar of the nation.

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“If traditional leaders of the African countries affected get involved, I believe that it can make a difference.

“Today, I say to the president and all other politicians, remember that the people you lead, are not yours, they have families, clans and a nation that they belong to.

“So going to other countries to apologise, without going or consulting the origin of those people, you have not solved the problem.

“I am not criticizing the president, Cyril Ramaphosa, for apologizing on behalf of the country to the countries who were affected, but I am trying to educate the nation,” said the King.

Ramaphosa recently apologized to the Zimbabweans for the recent violence against foreigners in Gauteng.

He apologised after he was booed at the late Zimbabwean former president’s memorial service in Harare.

The King also expressed his disappointment at the disrespect directed at his traditional prime minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, by what is believed were hostel dwellers, who walked away while his addressing them in Johannesburg earlier this month.

Buthelezi was there to try to discourage attacks on foreign nationals.

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