{"id":13209,"date":"2019-09-04T18:51:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T18:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13209"},"modified":"2019-09-04T18:51:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T18:51:38","slug":"stars-boycott-south-africa-over-xenophobic-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/stars-boycott-south-africa-over-xenophobic-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Stars boycott South Africa over xenophobic attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africans have come out to boycott <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\">South Africa<\/a> after days of looting and violence targeting foreigners in which five people died.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian singers and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zambia_national_football_team\">Zambia\u2019s football<\/a> team are among those in the boycott.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s social development minister told the BBC the rioters feared losing their jobs to foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>The country has become a magnet for migrants from other parts of Africa. It has one of the continent\u2019s biggest and most developed economies.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian Afrobeats star Burna Boy vowed to never go to South Africa again until the government \u201cwakes up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted that he himself had had his own \u201cxenophobic experiences at the hands of South Africans \u201d in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Another Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, announced on Twitter she was pulling out of a concert she had planned to perform at in South Africa in September, condemning \u201cthe barbaric butchering of my people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian government has also boycotted the World Economic Forum meeting in Cape Town. Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo was originally expected to attend the regional meeting between business leaders and governments.<\/p>\n<p>And the country has issued a travel warning to its citizens, tweets Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Zambia\u2019s football association has cancelled an international friendly match against South Africa scheduled to take place on Saturday in the capital, Lusaka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africans have come out to boycott South Africa after days of looting and violence targeting foreigners in which five people died. Nigerian singers and Zambia\u2019s football team are among those in the boycott. South Africa\u2019s social development minister told the BBC the rioters feared losing their jobs to foreigners. 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