South African President booed at Mugabe’s funeral over attacks on Nigerians, others

- Former Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe will be given a state funeral on September 14, 2019 with a dozen African leaders expected to pay tribute to a man lauded as a colonial-era liberation hero. Mugabe, who died last week in Singapore aged 95, left Zimbabwe torn over the legacy of his 37-year rule marked by brutal repression and economic crisis.

Nigerians and other foreigners in South Africa had come under a series of xenophobic attacks, about 12 people reportedly killed. Businesses belonging to foreigners were destroyed in and around Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city. But speaking on Saturday at the funeral, Ramaphosa said, “I stand before you as a fellow African to express my regret and apologise for what has happened in our country,” after one of the organisers tried to calm the crowd.Meanwhile, tweets on the verifiedhandle of the Presidency, PresidencyZA, on Saturday stated that the President assured the mourners that South Africans were not xenophobic and that his country was making efforts to deal with the causes of the violence.

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