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Nigeria says two of its citizens have been killed in South Africa, as attacks and intimidation against foreigners in the country continue to spiral.
A statement from the foreign ministry in Abuja said Emeka Charles Iroegbu was killed on 28 June by police officers who had used “gruesome interrogation techniques”. Shop owner Musa Yunana Joe was killed by unidentified people on the same day.
The attacks come “at a time when foreigners are being unduly targeted”, the foreign ministry said.
A wave of violent, xenophobic protests calling for the immediate expulsion of all undocumented migrants from South Africa’s borders has swept through the country, a movement experts say has been partially whipped up by politicians looking to exploit economic grievances ahead of upcoming municipal elections.
Authorities in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, say they are investigating the deaths reported by Nigeria.
Around 25,000 citizens have been repatriated to African countries, the government says, as authorities heed calls by thousands to remove undocumented migrants from within its borders.
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Nigeria flew out 269 citizens on the eve of a protest on 30 June that marked an unofficial deadline set by campaigners by which they demanded undocumented foreigners be removed from the country. Citizens of Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe have also been repatriated by plane or bus in recent days.
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On 28 June, Iroegbu was killed by officers from the Tshwane Metro police department, while Joe was killed outside his shop in the city of eMalahleni, the Nigerian government said.
Abuja said it was placing the South African government “on notice” and that “all options remain on the table… if the uncultured and provocative trend of intolerance and apartheid-style behaviour of South Africa against foreigners is not addressed”, in the statement that was shared on social media.
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The South African body investigating police conduct told the BBC an “investigation is underway” into Iroegbu’s death. The Independent has contacted it for comment.
The latest round of demonstrations has been more sustained, coordinated, and politically impactful than any that have come before. Protesters claim that foreigners are taking jobs and unfairly benefiting from public services.
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The protests have been defined by disturbing bouts of violence targeting foreigners.
Doris Mthebe, who lives in the Johannesburg suburb of Ivory Park, recalled seeing a large group of stick-waving people, as young as 14, screaming “get them out” as they marched through the town.
In Yeoville, a suburb where many African migrants live, protesters threw bricks at several homes during last week’s violence. In Germiston, which is around 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Johannesburg, demonstrators rampaged around homes forcefully evicting residents they suspected were foreign nationals and demanding police check their details.
Professor Jo Vearey of the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, told The Independent that in reality, only around four per cent of the South African population is foreign born.
“Even if all foreign nationals, regardless of documentation status, were removed from South Africa. That’s not going to address, for example, an unemployment rate of 38 per cent,” she said.
