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“The resentment,” he said, “is: ‘We suffered all these years — now that we’re free, we’re not really benefiting from what we fought for.’”
In Johannesburg on Tuesday, Kaanan Philip, a Nigerian immigrant who owns a cellphone accessory shop, stood amid a pile of rubble. A mob had descended on his street on Monday, he said, torching his business, leaving plastic goods melted and the shop blackened and charred.
“We are merely trying to make an honest living,” he said. “We don’t deserve to be treated the way the South Africans have treated us.”
The riots come weeks before an October visit by President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria to South Africa, where he is set to meet with Mr. Ramaphosa to discuss rising tensions, including violence against foreigners.
The two nations were once very close. Nigeria was so supportive of the anti-apartheid movement that it once imposed a “Mandela tax,” a mandatory deduction from civil servants’ salaries that went to help South Africans.
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