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South Africa Deploys Envoys in Wake of Xenophobic Attacks

Thuso Khumalo

   JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has sent out special envoys to explain the
   government's position on the recent wave of attacks on foreign
   nationals and their businesses. The country has come under criticism
   for failing to quickly end the attacks that left 12 people dead,
   hundreds displaced, and property worth millions of dollars looted or
   destroyed. President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africans are not
   xenophobic and he wants the rest of Africa to know this.

   Ramaphosa says diplomats have been dispatched to several African
   countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, the Democratic
   Republic of Congo and Zambia, with a clear mandate of repairing the
   country's image.

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