SA contains fallout as riots upstage key economic summit

Botswana's president Mokgweetsi Masisi, Zimbabwe's president , Emmerson Mnangagwa and Namibia's president Hage Geingob talk before the start of a session at the World Economic Forum(WEF) Africa meeting at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. [AFP]

South Africa’s government said yesterday that prejudice was a factor in deadly rioting that has targeted foreign businesses, as those attacks and reprisals overshadowed a pan-African economic conference it is hosting for a second day.

President Cyril Ramaphosa had hoped the World Economic Forum summit would serve as a shop window for his efforts to revive South Africa’s ailing economy and boost intra-African trade.