{"id":21684,"date":"2019-10-23T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T10:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=21684"},"modified":"2019-10-23T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T10:04:41","slug":"and-the-beat-goes-on-nigerians-attacked-again-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=21684","title":{"rendered":"And the beat goes on: Nigerians attacked, again, in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three Nigerians are among other foreign nationals who on Tuesday suffered from fresh xenophobic attacks on foreigners in different locations of Witbank, Mpumanlaga Province, South Africa, the Nigerian community has said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Spokesperson of the Nigeria Union, South Africa (NUSA), Mr Odefa Ikele, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Witbank, that the attacks started in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday\u2019s attacks are coming on the heels of efforts by Presidents Muhammadu Buhari and Cyril Ramaphosa to ensure they found amicable and lasting solution to the xenophobia in the latter\u2019s country.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such peace efforts saw Buhari visiting Ramaphosa and holding a town hall meeting with the Nigerian community.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGroups made up of community members and taxi drivers went to different areas in Witbank attacking foreign-owned businesses and foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThree Nigerians are injured, but no death case for now. Some of our nationals are seeking refuge at Witbank Police Station,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to NUSA, the affected Nigerians are still taking refuge at the police station at Witbank.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The details of the incident are still sketchy but NUSA also said that Police in the area have intervened and warned people to stay away from the Central Business District in the town. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Nigerians are among other foreign nationals who on Tuesday suffered from fresh xenophobic attacks on foreigners in different locations of Witbank, Mpumanlaga Province, South Africa, the Nigerian community has said. The National Spokesperson of the Nigeria Union, South Africa (NUSA), Mr Odefa Ikele, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Witbank, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}