Ghana has postponed bilateral meetings with South Africa that were planned for next month because of a surge in\u00a0anti-migrant violence\u00a0in the \u200bcountry, Ghana’s government spokesperson said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Spokesperson Felix Kwakye Ofosu told \u200clocal radio station Joy FM the violence would probably have overshadowed the August meetings, which were set to be hosted by Ghana and co-chaired by South Africa’s President \u200bCyril Ramaphosa and Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n
It would be better \u200bfor the two sides to meet “when matters settle,” Kwakye Ofosu \u2060said.<\/p>\n
Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya told Reuters the meetings of the South Africa-Ghana \u200bBi-National Commission had been discussed months ago and Johannesburg learned about Ghana’s intention \u200bto defer them when it sought to confirm them.<\/p>\n
South Africa has seen waves of anti-migrant protests over the past few months which have been mostly peaceful but at times \u200bturned violent, with attacks on foreign nationals and looting of foreign-owned shops.<\/p>\n
Ghana\u00a0repatriated\u00a0\u200bhundreds of its citizens ahead of a June 30 “deadline” set by a South African anti-migrant \u200cmovement \u2060for undocumented foreigners to leave.<\/p>\n
Kwakye Ofosu said Ghana valued its relationship with South Africa and it would be appropriate for Ramaphosa to visit “when the issue of xenophobic attacks no longer hangs over such discussions”.<\/p>\n
Magwenya said South Africa and \u200bGhana would “continue to \u200bengage through diplomatic \u2060channels to identify a mutually convenient date for the next session of the commission.”<\/p>\n
Ghana’s foreign ministry said last week \u200bthat a Ghanaian national was shot dead in Cape \u200bTown’s Khayelitsha \u2060township during anti-immigrant demonstrations on June 30.<\/p>\n
South African police said they had no record of such an incident on that day.<\/p>\n
They said a Ghanaian national was \u2060killed a \u200bday earlier in a different Cape Town \u200bsettlement but that incident was believed to be linked to extortion, not anti-migrant sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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