LUSAKA, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Zambia's ruling party on Tuesday urged South Africa's governing party to take a leading role in ensuring a stop to the current xenophobic attacks in that country.
Foreigners from other African countries have been attacked in South Africa and their shops looted following fresh outbreaks of xenophobic attacks. One Zambian was badly injured after he was stabbed.
Davies Mwila, Secretary-General of the Patriotic Front (PF) in a letter addressed to Ace Magashule, Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC) party said the party should lead South Africans in a 'new kind of struggle" against xenophobic oppression.
He reminded the South African ruling party official that Africans across the continent provided refuge and solace to their exiled South African brothers as they stood shoulder to shoulder with them in very trying circumstances during the Apartheid era.
"Zambians and other Africans sacrificed their lives to liberate South Africa from the shackles of the Apartheid regime. A significant multitude of Zambians and other Africans paid the ultimate price as their blood inter-mingled in death with the blood of their South African comrades," he said in the letter dated September 3, 2019.
According to him, the xenophobic acts were against the spirit of the liberation struggle and the values of a liberated South Africa, adding that xenophobia was against universal African value system.
He further said it was important for South African authorities to ensure the basic human rights of Zambians and other Africans and their very humanity are protected.
