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Muntaka Mubarak calls for boycott of South African products
The MP for Asawase Constituency in the Ashanti Region said in parliament that since the xenophobic attacks of African nationals in South Africa two years ago, he resolved not to patronise any product from South Africa.
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The MP for Asawase Constituency in the Ashanti Region said in parliament that since the xenophobic attacks of African nationals in South Africa two years ago, he resolved not to patronise South African products.
The minority chief whip made the comments in Parliament Friday when the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, briefed parliament on the safety of Ghanaians in South Africa in Thursday’s xenophobic attacks.
“Can all Africans avoid any product from South Africa as a way of showing them that we depend on each other?” he quizzed.
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He continued: “Since the xenophobic attacks in 2015, I have not bought anything in South Africa apart from the food and water that I drink and I said it in the Pan Africa parliament because that was my protest as an individual to show that I’ll never go to their market to buy anything and I have stuck to that up to date.
“Mr Speaker, yes, we need to be diplomatic but the only way that a blind man can see that the eye of the sighted is really red is for him to give him/her a knock. …I think the time has come for African people to unite around this and at least not to also violently attack their properties in our country and not to violently attack their citizens in our country but to boycott their products.”
“If we begin to boycott any South African product, they‘ll begin to feel the heat and that will let them know that we’ll not countenance this.”
Ms Botchwey told MPS that no Ghanaian national or their businesses have been affected by the recent attacks.
"In Mamelodi, a suburb of Pretoria, there is a general fear and apprehension within the various foreign communities including that of Ghana, following a decision by a local to organise an anti-foreigner march today to protest at what he referred to as South African nationals being tired of enslavement and being deprived of job opportunities in their own country," she said.
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