Ghana’s National Security officials arrive in SA

Four officials of Ghana’s National Security have arrived in South Africa to ascertain the state of security as far as Ghanaian migrants living in the rainbow nation are concerned.

It follows the outbreak of xenophobic attacks that have so far left ten people dead in the former apartheid nation.

“As of yesterday (Monday), I can confirm that four national security officials have left Accra and are currently in South Africa to ascertain the state of security as far as our nationals are concerned,” foreign Affairs minister Hanna Tetteh told a section of the media on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, reports that five Ghanaians have been killed in the attacks have been refuted by the South African High Commissioner to Ghana Lulama Xingwana.

Addressing a news conference in Accra Monday, Xingwana said the Ghanaian man who was found dead on the streets of Durban, the centre of the attacks on black Africans from other countries, died of an epileptic attack, according to an autopsy report.

Xingwana also noted that four other Ghanaians–a man, two women and a baby–who were found dead in a salon at Heibron, did not die from xenophobic attacks.