South Africa: Hermanus Protests - More Than 100 Somali Spaza Shops Torched

About 120 Somali-owned small businesses have been torched in Zwelihle, Hermanus, in violence associated with community protests, a group of Somali shop owners said on Tuesday.

"I ran with my children and my wife," said one man who did not want to be named or photographed.

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