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Xenophobic South Africans base their beliefs on apartheid-like differences such as people from elsewhere on the continent have darker skins. Photo: Photo: Hanna Brunlof (file)

In South Africa, when expectations collapse the poor revolt against the downtrodden foreigners

Revolutions are seeded not just in hunger, but in the fear of decline, particularly among those who thought they had escaped it

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