Former president Mbeki says foreigners are not the cause of SA’s economic crisis

Thabo Mbeki said the xenophobic attacks was part of a strategy to force Zimbabweans back to their country to vote against then president Robert Mugabe.

Former South Africa n President Thabo Mbeki has disclosed that the 2008 xenophobic attacks were a plot to force Zimbabwe ans to remove the then president Robert Mugabe . Picture: Boxer NgwenyaFormer president Thabo Mbeki has dropped a bombshell that the deadly 2008 xenophobic attacks in Alexandra, Johannesburg, were part of a planned operation to force Zimbabwe ans to return to their country and to vote out Robert Mugabe .

This was during March, in 2008, where the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Mugabe failed to garner a 50% majority, resulting in a run-off election scheduled to take place in June. He said the attacks later spread to other areas across the province, with people championing for xenophobia and afrophobic attacks.

He said they made a mistake as a government for not declassifying an intelligence document about what happened in that township, on the very same year. Mbeki said among other things that contribute to the economic crisis in the country is the sky rocketing unemployment, which he said needs to be addressed.

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