Let us be honest, brothers and sisters. As a Ghanaian nurse, you can make a decent living here. So why trade in a country where the law bars foreigners from that work? These people survived apartheid, for Godโs sake. Let them grow whiles we focus on building our Ghana.
โSouth Africans have killed some Ghanaians, Nigerians, Zambians, and other African nationals in xenophobic attacks. I was a nurse in Ghana, but I switched to hairdressing in South Africa because I did not have a work permit. Sometimes, you have to carry bottles or knives to defend yourself because of the crime and ongoing xenophobic attacks.โ
โ Esther, a Ghanaian woman who arrived in Ghana on a government-chartered repatriation flight, shares her ordeal in South Africa and why she decided to return home to restart her life