Breaking News: President Zuma of South Africa Finally Openly show Support For Xenophobic Attacks On Nigerians.

Jacop Zuma of South Africa

By: Bulus Bako

Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma says the march against immigrants in Pretoria on Friday is evidence that citizens are fed up with crime.

Speaking after the launch of Operation Phakisa, this is aimed at boosting various sectors of the South African economy.

"We do have a big problem. This time around this has been provoked by crime."

He said the media should be careful about labeling the protests as xenophobic. Political leaders must also be cautious with their messages.

Crime affects everyone and people are fed up, he said.

"If there are people who occupy houses and use them for crime this will make people angry. How do we fight crime?

"We must focus on drug lords and deal with them. Those are the gaps we need to close."

Whether South African or foreign, criminals should be dealt with using the proper channels, he said.

A group calling itself the Mamelodi Concerned Residents organised the march to the Department of Home Affairs in Pretoria on Friday to protest the presence of immigrants in South Africa.

Police had to use stun grenades and rubber bullets to diffuse a tense stand-off between foreign nationals and South Africans in Marabastad.

A small clash between foreign shop owners and South African marchers also broke out in Christoffel Street. The police were quick to react and the fight was quelled.

He questioned the idea that South Africans are xenophobic, saying if they were "this country wouldn't have this many immigrants".

He said only 5% of immigrants were refugees. However he failed to acknowledge the fact that South Africans are lazy and unwilling to work like the foreigners do, he also missed the fact that while the white community make up just 5% of the population, yet it controls 85% of the nation's wealth and resources which includes farmlands. This clearly points to where he as the president and the xenophobic South Africans should cast their search lights and not on poor fellow Africans particularly Nigerians who some few years ago offered these same South Africans refuge from their white oppressors.

"The number of foreigners in South Africa is far more than in Europe. They don't want immigrants." Said Zuma.

Zuma said he had met with his ministers to discuss what they could do to fight crime.

He would also be talking to the police.