As the deadly South African xenophobic attacks on foreigners continue, South Africans have flooded the social media with highly instigating past videos of President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Deputy Minister of Police as justification for their wrong war against foreign nationalities in the country.

In his campaign trail in the run up to last year’s elections, Ramaphosa sent out threats to people who come from other countries and set up illegal or unlicensed businesses in South Africa.

He promised to wipe out businesses that were not in the government’s books from existence.

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Meanwhile, in another video widely circulated by the violence instigating South Africans, Deputy Police Minister Bongani Mkongi is featured in the 2017 video accusing foreign nationals in Hillbrow of economic sabotage.

In the video, Mkongi says 80% of Hillbrow is occupied by foreign nationals, a situation he suggests South Africans must never tolerate.

“If we don’t debate that, that necessarily means the whole of South Africa could be 80% dominated by foreign nationals and the future president of South Africa could be a foreign national.”

He says foreign nationals are hijacking old buildings while locals don’t have anywhere to go.

“We fought for this country, not only for us but for generations of South Africans to live in harmony in a non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa.”

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According to reports, the latest looting and torching foreign-owned businesses and killing foreign nationals trend that has been dominating Gauteng is a result of the speeches that the president and his Deputy Minister gave resulting in South Africans following their command.