Zambian victims of recent xenophobic acts in South Africa should should return home to begin a new life, Information Minister Mike Mulongoti said in Lusaka Sunday according to DPA. "Many opportunities exist in Zambia for the victims. The government would do everything possible to assist the xenophobic victims to settle," he said. But those victims who felt safe in South Africa would not be compelled to return, he said. More than 120 Zambians have returned home from South Africa telling chilling stories of the wave of violence directed against foreigners, according to DPA. Mulongoti denied the violence meted out was state sponsored or South African government policy but was perpetrated by criminal elements.
