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Social media ablaze with fury against South Africa xenophobia

South Africans burn tyres as xenophobic violence resurfaces. (AFP)

Netizens have reacted angrily to xenophobic attacks in South Africa as authorities try to control the wild animosity directed at foreigners.

Messages advocating peace and unity across Africa have flooded social media platforms after video footage of violence showing business centres suspected to belong to foreigners being torched and images of heavily guarded Johannesburg Central Business District filled, streets blocked with stones, ashes, and billowing smoke went viral.

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