SA-based Congolese musician Tresor was left distressed by the recent xenophobic attacks in Durban, knowing all too well what it is like to be a victim of such hatred.
As a foreign national, Tresor has committed himself through his role as an international United Nations Refugee Agency Ambassador to bring global awareness to the crisis.
The musician said he was in talks with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to start a digital campaign to make people aware how cruel xenophobia is. Hailing from Goma, the capital city of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo which borders Rwanda, Tresor was orphaned at an early age and saw the cruel effects of the Rwanda Genocide first hand. After finishing high school, he headed for Durban by foot, train and car to pursue a music career. He arrived in SA in 2007 with no family, money and did not speak English.
“You can’t break people who are already broken. When people come from a different country, their lives are already broken because of what they have gone through. They are just looking for a small place to breathe and find peace.”“There were fights and verbal insults but, for me, it was very systematic. It was people preventing me from getting certain opportunities and looking down on me.
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