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Members of the Nigerian community in Nelson Mandela Bay joined a large group of people who added their voice to the global call for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls to be released.
More than a hundred people carrying placards bearing the hash-tag Bring Back Our Girls, gathered at the city's New Law Courts for a march to city hall.
The spokesperson for the Nigerian Igbo community in Port Elizabeth, Collins Ukwuoma, says its been more than a month since the schoolgirls had been abducted by the extremist sect, Boko Haram.
He says "Boko Haram is opposed to Western education and that is why they abducted the girls."
Ukwuoma says he believes the government of president Goodluck Jonathan is doing all it can to get the girls back.
"Today we are joining the voice, here in South Africa and all over the world, saying Bring Back Our Girls. We want them home safe and sound as soon as possible," he said.
"Parents are aggrieved, families are aggrieved, the whole nation is in mourning because of these girls. We don't know their condition and we don't know what is going on with them. But, we want them back and that's why were are here today," said Ukwuoma.
