‘Foreigners are welcome in Limpopo’: Mathabatha

LIMPOPO – Limpopo premier Stanley Mathabatha says this year’s Africa Day celebrations re-iterate their stance that they welcome foreign nationals.

On Monday Mathabatha, MECs and municipal mayors played a soccer match against a team formed by foreign nationals at the University of Limpopo’s Turfloop campus.

Some foreign nationals living in the country say the condemnation of xenophobic attacks by several government leaders during yesterday’s Africa Day celebrations, has helped in healing wounds caused by recent xenophobic attacks experienced in various parts of the country.

“It’s not easy to be here because we have seen what has been happening for some months now we are not about it we can see that South Africans are not happy about it. They are trying to do something about it because without love and peace the country cannot move forward,” says a foreign national at Limpopo’s Africa Day Celebration.

“Today we can see that the premier and MEC’s are here just to make foreigners believe and understand that everything that goes wrong they are not part of it,” he adds.

via SABC