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H.E. Dr.Chihombori, Please allow me to clarify a mischaracterisation in your recent remarks as per the clip below. South Africa is not doing what you allege or imply. This is what is actually happening in South Africa without delving into the merits or demerits. 1. The civil movement marches are directed at illegal and undocumented foreign nationals, not at foreigners as a category. 2. There is no blanket or indiscriminate expulsion of foreigners. Those with legitimate documentation remain welcome and protected. 3. The South African Government is conducting a repatriation exercise for those voluntarily returning to their home countries, alongside deportation of those in the country illegally. 4. No South African anywhere in the world, least of all our business people, operates without proper documentation in their host country. The same standard applies here. 5. In sum, South Africa, through both government and civil society, is simply enforcing the Immigration Act, legislation the Government itself has for years failed to implement consistently. This is a matter of law and sovereignty, not xenophobia/afrophobia. Conflating lawful enforcement of immigration legislation with hostility toward Africans or Pan-Africanism does a disservice to the very principles of Pan-African solidarity, which have never required any state to abandon its right to regulate its borders. We depend on Honourable and respectable people like yourselves to put matters in their proper perspective to avoid uncalled for animosity in our Continent. I submit