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notice that since what you describe as xenophobic or afrophobic - that needs a debate on its own to give a definition to that conflict. It needs its own definition in the sense that at the height of it twelve people died,
only two were non South Africans and 10 were South Africans. That means if it was a xenophobic attack, it was a xenophobic attack against ourselves in the main. So the definition of that incident would need to be redefined properly so that we don't get confused by this issue.
However, we took time to send an envoy to Nigeria which was immediately followed by the state visit by the President of Nigeria. Meaning that we are serious about our relationship. We are resisting the possibility of our relation being derailed by incidents. Because in the continent they will be many incidents. If we want to be excited, we can destroy our relationship. So our relationship with Nigeria is on a firm footing.