The South African government will be using the military to tackle Xenophobic attacks on foreigners in the country. This is coming as Nigeria, Zimbabwe and China governments criticized the government for failing to protect foreigners on its soil, allowing South Africans to murder and loot from foreigners in the country.
Speaking to the press about the force of the military, Defence minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said :
There will be those who will be critical of this decision but the vulnerable will appreciate it.
The Xenophobic war had seen foreigners hiding away from the eye of the locals. A Zimbabwean couple was shot in the Johannesburg shanty town of Alexandra on Monday night but survived.
Hundreds of Malawians marched on South Africa's High Commission in the capital Lilongwe on Tuesday, demanding charges be laid against King Zwelithini amid calls for a boycott of South African businesses.
Malawi's Information Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa, said on Monday two Malawians were killed in the attacks and that efforts were under way to repatriate about 3,000 of its nationals.
In Zambia, two private commercial radio stations have stopped playing South African music.
Nigerians also blocked a telecommunication office, MTN owned by South African entrepreneur to condemn the attack on their citizens living in the country. Nigerians have also called to boycott other South African businesses in the country as a mode of protest.
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