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South African violence against immigrants fed by post-apartheid poverty

by Craig Timberg

RAMAPHOSA INFORMAL SETTLEMENT, South Africa — This was the kind of place that was not supposed to exist in the new South Africa. All black. All poor. Dense, squalid, dirty, angry — with charred patches of earth where men once stood.

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