Nana Aba Anamoah, a Ghanaian media personality, has quizzed the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa following his recent remarks on the treatment of foreign nationals in South Africa.
In a viral video, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was captured expressing concern over the way some South Africans have treated other African nationals living in the country.
According to Cyril Ramaphosa, he deeply regrets the treatment meted out to foreign nationals.
Speaking in the viral video, Cyril Ramaphosa stated, “We South Africans are deeply concerned and ashamed that people from other nations, some whose leaders are here, were treated badly and were even forced to leave the country under threat of violence.
The criminal actions of a few within our communities are a repudiation of the solidarity upon which this Southern African community is built”.
He added, “We cannot preach integration at summits and practise exclusion in the streets of our countries. I say this as a South African, to South Africans first of all, but this is a broader challenge to which we must apply ourselves as a community. Southern Africa has borne witness to the movement of people over millennia,” he said”.
However, Nana Aba Anamoah, who shared the video, noted that while President Ramaphosa may have expressed remorse over the attacks, she quizzed whether those carrying out the xenophobic acts feel the same sense of shame.
She further described some South Africans leading the xenophobic attacks as “uncultured”.
In her post sharing the video, Nana Aba stated, “Do your grossly uncultured people who keep hounding Africans on your streets feel deeply concerned and ashamed too, Cyril Ramaphosa?”
Some netizens reacting to Nana Aba’s post stated, “He is not even ashamed; I don’t just see him as a pretty moronic and evil man at that point. The same man was funding his reek vigilantes to beat and take the lives of other countries’ citizens. He thinks he is safe since he is a member of BRICS”.
Another netizen added, “It is a deep contradiction to stand before regional leaders & preach pan-African unity while domestic policies & street-level pressures increasingly target African immigrants. Condemning xenophobia in a summit hall rather than in your own country means little when thousands”.
A netizen argued, “Nana Aba, forget about the SA people. Ah, people are being attacked in your home by your children. You’ve the power to get them arrested for their violent acts, but you sit unconcerned, having reported meetings with them… etc etc. Then you come tell me you are concerned? Jokes”.
One X user added, “He should exercise those concerns by arresting those recalcitrants, arraigning them before a court of competent jurisdiction, and paying for the loss of assets for those foreigners who were chased away. Anything else is just antics and pretence”.
See the post below:
Do your grossly uncultured people who keep hounding Africans on your streets feel deeply concerned and ashamed too, @CyrilRamaphosa? pic.twitter.com/8ysL5tr16R
— nana aba (@thenanaaba) August 16, 2026
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