Xenophibia Nigerians demand compensation from S Africa as Jacob Zuma visits Nigeria

On Tuesday, South African president Jacob Zuma paid a courtesy visit to President Buhari and Nigerians in the diaspora called on President Buhari to ensure the South African government adequately compensates victims of the 2015 xenophobia attack.

Mr Ikechukwu Anyene, president of Nigeria Union, South Africa urged president Buhari to seize the opportunity of Zumas visit to ask for compensation, saying none of the Xenophobia attack victims have been compensated since then despite losing their means of livelihood.

“Lots of Nigerians lost their means of livelihood, material possessions and for many, all their hard work. We have sought for compensation on behalf of these victims from the South African government through the Nigerian government so that the victims can be adequately compensated. Up to this point in time nothing has been heard about the compensation request on behalf of the victims. For some years now, a lot of Nigerians in South Africa have been victims of assassination by unknown people and rogue officers of the South African Police Service. Most of the cases have not been solved and nobody has been arrested in majority of the cases, even as many of them were reported to the police with official case numbers, this is strange in a country where the police force is efficient and the rate of successful prosecution is high up to 92.2 per cent in 2014/15. We implore the minister to demand from the highest level of South African authorities to set up a panel to investigate our claims and address our concerns,” Anyene said.

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What Does 500 Words Look Like

The writing on this page will be about 500 words - the point being to demonstrate what it looks like.

It doesnt matter a great deal what it is about - it will wander along in a reasonably simple and quick fashion, depending on your reading pace of course.

The purpose, and all writing has to have a purpose, except the best sort, which is writing that doesnt - the purpose being to give a rough idea of words on a page, and how much space 500 of them take up.

I guess that most people would be horrified to talk about words being used as filler, but the truth is, that is all writers do.  Sure, they can dress it up as great meaningful prose, or important news or even poetry - but it is all just letters, arranged to lesser or greater effect.

For my part, I love words and playing with them, shifting them around in my head and then laying them out - attempting to make a coherent point about something.  The fun of the surprise gives me great pleasure.

On this occasion I am working within a narrow remit.  It is to show you what 500 of these beauties look like when laid end to end.

Obviously, unless you have a very wide screen, they will not appear in a single line but in a series of mini paragraphs - the two sentence rule being the internet standard at present.  Eventually we will end up with a single word being sufficient for the average reader with at least two lines of space and a video to alleviate the extreme stress of reading.

I might point out at this stage that the word count is a disappointingly slim three hundred or so.  That means more work for the both of us to get to the end.  I would say "Ill keep it short" but there is a target here that I intend to hit.

Sometimes, when the subject matter is a little more, how shall we say... interesting, then 500 words is nowhere near enough.  On a title like this though Im almost pushing it to get there.  Still, the average paragraph is fifty or so, and it doesnt take a whole lot of waffle to put a few together.

I wonder what it is you are going to be writing?  A school essay, a job application, maybe a love letter?  Five hundred words of endearment should go a long way I should think, although I am no expert.  There was a time once, I can tell you, although sadly - fifty words would probably cover it.

Whatever it is you are aiming for, I wish you good luck and as we reach the finish point I hope you find it easy enough.  I will say that practice makes writing very easy, and its more fun than it probably looks.

Well, I enjoy it.

Thats it by the way - five hundred words, including these.  Good luck!

Heres a guy who knows all about writing...

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