Tracy Sarkcess shares her xenophobic rape scare experience in South Africa

Selorm Tali 15:24 - 04 September 2019

Tracy Sarkcess

Matters of xenophobic attacks and experiences in South Africa have been flooding social media after the recent attack and Tracy Sarkcess, has added her tale too.

According to the wife of Ghana’s rap King, Sarkodie, she was in South Africa this year and throughout the 4 weeks of her stay, she never felt safe as a foreigner.

Tracy Sarkcess, sharing her experience on Twitter mentioned that she was always treated differently when the people in the country notice that she isn’t a South African.

“I was in SA this year in March for 4 weeks and I never felt safe. I realised that whenever a black South African made me out not to be one of them, they would treat me differently & sometimes ask where I’m from” she tweeted.

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Narrating her tale, the mother of one, added that she had an encounter with a taxi driver in South Africa, who also asked her about her nationality and judging from his demeanour, she feared the man maybe harbouring intentions to rape her.

The wife of the rapper shared her experience to justify the point that xenophobic treatment is a real thing in South Africa and advised that it can be solved by Africans getting re-educated.

See her tweets below and share your thoughts with us.

Thread: 1. I was in SA this year in March for 4 weeks and I never felt safe. I realised that whenever a black South African made me out not to be one of them, they would treat me differently & sometimes ask where I’m from. I remember one driver asking that same question...
— Tracy A. Owusu-Addo (@TracyOwusuAddo) September 3, 2019

2. ... & when I told him I was from Ghana, he told me I don’t look a Ghanaian/West African because I wasn’t very dark!! 😐 And said your ppl are very dark ehh...I was so upset but I was also very scared because the way he was looking at me I actually thought he might want rape me
— Tracy A. Owusu-Addo (@TracyOwusuAddo) September 3, 2019

3. My point is this xenophobia thing is real in SA but it’s deeply rooted in the apartheid culture. To be honest, it still feels like apartheid there where the Black South Africans are very much afraid of the whites.
— Tracy A. Owusu-Addo (@TracyOwusuAddo) September 3, 2019

4. I don’t know what the solution is but I think it has to start with the re-education of Black South Africans. #SayNoToXenophobicAttacks
— Tracy A. Owusu-Addo (@TracyOwusuAddo) September 3, 2019

These people are sick in the head!!! #SayNoToXenophobia #boycottSA https://t.co/2omTyByaYE
— Tracy A. Owusu-Addo (@TracyOwusuAddo) September 3, 2019