Cape Town - Since Sunday, the Zimbabwean embassy has repatriated 407 of the country’s nationals who wanted to return home because of the xenophobic violence in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, diplomat Tamuka Muranga said.
“So far, since Sunday evening, 407 have left,” Muranga, the minister counsellor at the embassy in Pretoria, told ANA,
“But that is not a final figure as there may be more wishing to go. The process is not complete.”
Muranga said Zimbabwean ambassador Isaac Moyo was in Durban talking to Zimbabwean expatriates about their concerns in the wake of the attacks which has left at least seven dead and displaced thousands in the past three weeks.
The Zimbabwean nationals were taken home on buses arranged by the diplomatic mission.
Staff at the Mozambican consulate in Johannesburg said both the ambassador and consul general have spent the past week tirelessly visiting communities affected by the attacks.
On Saturday, Mozambican national Emmanuel Sithole was stabbed to death in Alexandra north of Johannesburg. Four men appeared in court in Johannesburg in connection with his murder on Tuesday morning while ANC supporters protested outside the building demanding that the suspects be denied bail.
They will appear in court again on May 4 and were remanded.
ANA