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The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday apologised to Nigeria for the xenophobic attacks on its citizens.

The apology was tendered to President Muhammadu Buhari in the State House, Abuja, by the two special envoys the South African leader dispatched to Nigeria yesterday.

Addressing State House correspondents shortly after a closed-door meeting with the Nigerian president, Ramaphosa’s special envoy, Jeff Radebe said: “Those incidents do not represent what we stand for as a constitutional democracy in South Africa and the president has apologised for these incidents.”

Radebe, who blamed the untoward incidents on the prevailing scourge of unemployment, poverty, …