South Africa - The Level of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa Is Rising Again

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High levels of on and under employment, the sort of constant movement of people closer to where money, wages can be earned. The self built communities around durban, around cape town, around joberg and elsewhere, have become sites of self organization but also a struggle with very intense saying and a lot of of um fights as well.

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