Some South Africans have taken to social media to describe the ongoing attacks on Nigerians and other foreigners as payback for disrespecting them in their own country.
According to them, the ongoing attacks where shops are being looted and burnt and where foreigners(Nigerians) are being killed is not xenophobia but a situation to show that they are tired of what foreigners do in their country.
One wrote, “You enter a foreign country illegally,sell drugs,traffic people,sell counterfeit goods,kill people,evade tax and when citizens gets tired and deal with you decisively you cry xenophobia,La”