BBC News, I am a foreigner living in South Africa, and I believe your reporting is doing an injustice to this country when you highlight violence against foreigners without giving equal attention to the serious crime that fuels public frustration.
As a foreigner, I refuse to pretend that crime committed by other foreigners is not a problem simply because I am one of them. My nationality does not require me to defend wrongdoing, and my empathy for foreigners does not require me to dismiss the legitimate concerns of South Africans.
There are reports of foreign nationals implicated in drug trafficking, human trafficking, illegal drug laboratories and cable theft. A foreign national was also reportedly involved in running over a Crime Intelligence specialist. These incidents deserve serious scrutiny and consistent reporting, too.
If BBC News can report when a foreigner is beaten to death, it should also report on crimes committed against South Africans, regardless of the perpetrator’s nationality. If you believe violence against foreigners deserves international attention, surely the victims of crimes committed by foreigners deserve that same attention.
Accountability cannot be selective. Human rights apply to everyone, and so must the law.
Let me be clear: beating someone to death is indefensible, and no crime justifies mob justice. But condemning mob violence must not become an excuse to avoid discussing crime, immigration enforcement and the failures that leave communities feeling unsafe.
South Africans deserve safety, and foreigners who commit crimes must face the law. These positions are not contradictory.
Do not use the death of one person to silence an entire country’s concerns. Report the killing, condemn the violence, and give the broader issue of crime the same seriousness. That is what fair and responsible journalism should look like.
Trump perderá las elecciones del medio tiempo en ambas Cámaras.
Ucrania tendrá que entregar a Rusia lo que a Rusia le exija en territorio.
China se quedará con Taiwán sin que más nunca USA quiera provocar a China usando a Taiwán
Alemania y Francia e Italia pondrán en graves aprietos a la Unión Europea.
El Reino Unido se desintegrará.
Los BRICS marcarán el nuevo rumbo del mundo multipolar.
España seguirá gobernada por el PSOE.
Rusia le exigirá en la reunión de Trump con Putin que liberen a Maduro como parte del acuerdo entre ambos.
Venezuela será re institucionalizada con Delcy al frente.
Las elecciones Presidenciales en Venezuela serán en el 2030 con elecciones previas de Alcaldes y Concejales, de Gobernadores y Diputados a las Asambleas regionales.
Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia se volverán ingobernables después de las elecciones del medio tiempo en USA.
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Two Yoruba women has been arrested in Yoruba land badagry for running a fake juice factory that produces fake juice drinks in Lagos.
Whatever they accuse you for, just know they themselves also do it.
Zamfara state governor faces humiliation from citizens.
As it stands Northern Governors cannot guarantee Tinubu votes.
The people are tired.
#AtikuIsComing
Senator Agege said that anyone who rig the election would be killed.
And you quickly went under the post & tagging the DSS & co, that Agege is threatening people’s life. 🤣🤣
Threatening people’s life as how na? You be election rigger? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This boy would have just jejely stuck with his food criticism
You're against tribalism but still ended up calling out kano
Do northerners own pharmacies?
Go and check well and see that it's even the yorubas that do these things in the north
You've not called out ondo and ogun for producing fake herbal drinks even when the evidences are out there
The Nafdac boss is yoruba and shes one of the most incompetent I have seen in my life
Talk about your tribe first before coming out to spew nonsense
Ask your Doctor, Doctor... Let me as a Doctor answer this ignorant Opeyemi Famakin.
1 The tribe with the highest number of CKD and Dialysis is not the Igbos.
According to most epidemiological studies, NorthEastern states like Borno, Yobe, Jigawa rank tops in Nigeria, perhaps another problem here might be Dialysis coverage from lack of abundant facilities.
Closely followed will be many of the Southwestern states like Ogun, Ekiti...
The predominant Igbo states don't rank tops for CKD and Dialysis.
2 Inasmuch as we are fighting against Fake drugs and Drinks... the top causes of CKD in Nigeria still remains conditions like High blood pressure, Diabetes , of course Nephrotoxic substances still play a huge role.
The discourse of kidney problems , fake drugs and products has no iota of ethnicity and tribalism perpetrating it.
It will be unfair to label any tribe as perpetrating and a sole cause of CKD in Nigeria.
This is a wrong narrative to peddle.
Let us fight the general fake drug narrative without throwing in ethnic and tribal undertones.
“These people are not intimidated by us, and are rather amused by us. They watch us and learn quickly what we know. God help us the day they climb the ladder."
British anthropologist and writer Sylvia Leith-Ross, 1939 on Ndi Igbo.
Yorubas used to accuse Igbos of money rituals till Ogun State results showed the ritualists weren't Igbo, so they stopped. Now they say Igbos are the No.1 makers of fake drugs/drinks in Nigeria. Let's wait till we see who the No.1 agbo manufacturers are. We'll soon know who really tops fake products.
@Achilles0055199@Feministt1000@DanielRegha@grok It's your business because you denied the first one, the second one was a proof that the first actually happened. Don't you get it? Abi you be coconut head? 😁
You do bigotry (since 2013)
Harry do bigotry (since 2023)
Your bigotry no come dey hit as you been expect
Harry come do the bigotry pass you wey be bigotry OG
You run go open space, give another bigot co-host and proceeded to cry for 10 hours straight about how Harry dey do bigotry
As if Harry dey do all that bigotry against himself, nobody dey do bigotry back with Harry
You started a fight you couldn’t win, they battered you silly and here you are crying to APC for backup and playing victim
Set of foolish individuals
Nigerians #OccupyINEC should be our priority!
If that APC INEC chairman can openly break the law by refusing to publish voters register online, we have to begin the #RigandDie2027 from their offices.