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Immigrant traders abandon shops in Springs after threats

Vigilante groups in Kwathema say immigrants must be out by 30 June or else

Once a busy sidewalk with informal traders has become a ghost town in Kwathema’s White City as immigrant shop owners threatened to give up their businesses. Photos: Kimberly Mutandiro.

Following protests by March and March in Springs in recent weeks, many immigrant informal traders have closed their stalls because they fear further attacks.
Many immigrants have fled the community and those who remain say they are trying to raise money to leave before 30 June.
This is not the first time the community has been upended by a wave of xenophobic attacks.

Vainet Spatini moved to South Africa from Mozambique in March to run a chips and bunny-chow shop from her brother’s home in Kwathema’s White City in Springs.
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