Xenophobia: Zambian Radio Station Stops Playing South African Music

Lusaka – A radio station in Zambia on Friday
black out the playing of South African music
in protest against xenophobic attacks on
immigrants currently taking place in that
country.
Asan Nyama, QFM Radio station Managing
Director, said the move to black out South
African music indefinitely starting at 06:00
hours on Friday.
He explained that the action was in solidarity
with Africans who have fallen victims to
xenophobic attacks in Durban and Kwazulu-
Natal provinces.
He said considering that QFM has a
listenership not only in Zambia, but across
the globe via live internet streaming and
satellite platform, the station feels duty
bound to voice out in protest at the attacks
on foreign nationals by South Africans by
stopping the air play of their music.
Nyama said this was not the first time that
foreign nationals are being targeted in
xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
He said there was need to send a clear
message to South Africans that violence on
fellow Africans negates African unity which
the continent’s forefather fought for.
Nyama has called for the need for Africans
to co-exist as brothers and sisters
regardless of whichever country they come
from.
He says QFM regrets the deaths of five
people who have so far died in xenophobic
attacks in South Africa, calling for an end to
such brutal murders.
Nyama further called on the South African
government to arrest the situation before
more precious lives are lost, and bring the
perpetrators of such heinous crimes to
book.