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Mondli Makhanya 

After the deaths of 62 people and the destruction of millions of rands worth of property, a parliamentary committee probing the 2008 attacks on foreign nationals came to the remarkable conclusion that “xenophobic attitudes do exist among some South African citizens”.

It said such attitudes were “largely based on unfounded and unverified fears, as well as the inclination to stereotype foreigners as the cause of social and economic problems in the host country”.

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