Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, will visit South Africa on Monday March 13, 2017.<\/p>\n
The Minister’s visit comes in the wake of attacks on non-South Africans in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
The visit will give the Minister the opportunity to ascertain at first hand, the events that led to the attacks and bring clarity to the issue of reported casualties.<\/p>\n
She will also meet with the South African authorities and secure assurances about the safety of Ghanaians in the country.<\/p>\n
Hon Ayorkor Botchwey returns to Accra on March 14, 2017.<\/p>\n
‘2017 Xenophobic attacks in South Africa’<\/strong><\/p>\n Xenophobic attacks on non-South Africans were renewed in February this year following allegations by locals that foreigners have taken over their jobs and therefore rendering them jobless.<\/p>\n Reports indicated that many foreigners had been physically assaulted and their shops looted amidst the violence.<\/p>\n Nigerians were said to be worse affected.<\/p>\n Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey on the floor of parliament said although there was no confirmation of any Ghanaian who had been attacked, Ghanaians in South Africa were living in fear.<\/p>\n She said, “In Mamelodi, a suburb in Pretoria, there is general fear and apprehension within the various foreign communities including that of Ghana following a decision by a local to organize an anti-foreigner march today to protest at what he referred to as South African nationals being tired of enslavement and being deprived of job opportunities in their own country.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, will visit South Africa on Monday March 13, 2017. The Minister’s visit comes in the wake of attacks on non-South Africans in recent weeks. The visit will give the Minister the opportunity to ascertain at first hand, the events that led to the attacks and bring clarity to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":287359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4952,3,4389],"class_list":["post-301118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-ayorkor-botchwey","tag-ghana-news","tag-xenophobic-attacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}