His Honourable Ramaphosa,

We wish to alert your office and to request that you make a pronouncement on the development of an atmosphere of xenophobia and hatred in the country.

For more than a month now attacks on migrants have been carried out and gradually intensifies and is reaching alarming proportions. Toward the end of July 2019 a complaint against crime allegedly committed by swahili-speaking foreign migrants in Richards Bay degenerated and shops belonging to the latter were looted. The victims are still unable to return to their places of work and business and their children unable to attend schools. The situation was not properly handled and two weeks later a strike by truck drivers worsened the situation in the same city.

For more than a month now attacks on migrants have been carried out and gradually intensifies and is reaching alarming proportions. Toward the end of July 2019 a complaint against crime allegedly committed by swahili-speaking foreign migrants in Richards Bay degenerated and shops belonging to the latter were looted. The victims are still unable to return to their places of work and business and their children unable to attend schools. The situation was not properly handled and two weeks later a strike by truck drivers worsened the situation in the same city.

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