Staff Reporter
Parliament leadership called for African unity and deeper continental cooperation on migration on Tuesday, as African presiding officers gathered in Gauteng amid rising anti-immigrant tensions in the country.
Opening the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth Africa Region at Emperors Palace, National Council of Provinces chairperson Refilwe Mtshweni-Tsipane said Africa’s migration and coexistence challenges could not be separated from the continent’s history of colonialism, poverty and inequality.
“To this extent, the unity of Africa remains very sacrosanct and South Africa remains the home for all Africans, and open to the community of nations across the globe,” Mtshweni-Tsipane said.
“The current shared challenges of immigration and the problem of co-existence, as global and continental phenomenon, are the manifestations of the unresolved questions and challenges of history.”
Her remarks came as South Africa confronts rising anti-immigrant sentiment and protests by groups demanding that undocumented foreign nationals leave
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