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Is South Africa Afrophobic?

Shops owned by Somali traders are looted. Nigerian-owned businesses are attacked. Zimbabwean migrants flee townships. The pattern recurs with alarming regularity.

Is South Africa Afrophobic?

Shops owned by Somali traders are looted. Nigerian-owned businesses are attacked. Zimbabwean migrants flee townships. Malawians, Ethiopians, Mozambicans, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are caught in waves of violence that seem to erupt with alarming regularity.