The spate of killings and expulsion of foreigners that has gripped Africa's second largest economy, South Africa, over the past few weeks is shameful and retrogressive, to say the least.
The outbreak of xenophobia that erupted in the country's eastern port city of Durban has in its wake left five people dead and another 5,000 foreigners and asylum seekers displaced.
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