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Anti-immigrant mob threatens to burn women and children

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Immigrants close their shops in Marabastad, Pretoria, after receiving death threats from anti-immigrant vigilantes. Photo: Seth Thorne
“Your time is up! We will lock you in your shops and set them on fire,” anti-immigrant protesters, armed with sticks and sjamboks, told immigrant shopkeepers, mainly women and their children, in Pretoria on Friday.
Anti-immigrant groups, including March and March, Operation Dudula and the United Progressive People’s Alliance Party, gathered outside the Refugee Reception Office in Marabastad.
“We are staying here until the Home Affairs staff leave and make sure no immigrant accesses the services. We will be back on Monday and every day after that until they change this policy,” said Operation Dudula’s Tsaka Tsepedi.
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