The world watched with shock and horror as South Africans attacked those from the rest of the African continent in a wave of some of the most heinous acts of violence carried out against foreign immigrants that began in Pretoria and spread to Johannesburg’s CBD and surrounds more than a week ago.

The evil and senseless acts of violence not only saw foreign-owned shops looted and burnt to the ground, but also people losing their lives through the worst form of hooliganism the people of this country have unleashed against the “other” in recent memory...

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