A video circulating on social media shows a group of South African tourists being asked to leave a restaurant in Mozambique. The footage is reported to have been filmed in Matola. In the video, the restaurant owner confronts the tourists, who are said to be in Mozambique for a vacation, and the owner is heard telling them to return to their country. The owner’s position, as reported by outlets, is that South Africans have frequently directed Mozambicans and other African nationals to leave South Africa, and that they are now experiencing the same treatment.
Several online commenters link the incident to broader xenophobia concerns, pointing to previous attacks in South Africa targeting foreign African nationals. The reports place the episode within a wider context in which multiple African countries have, in recent months, evacuated some of their citizens from South Africa, including Mozambique, Nigeria, and Ghana. While the outlets focus on the social media video and reactions to it, they do not provide official confirmation of the incident’s circumstances beyond the claims described in the reporting.
