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A wave of xenophobic violence has spread across South Africa, fuelled by a toxic mix of anger, disinformation and inflammatory mobilisation online. At its centre is Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma - who has emerged as the face of the new anti-immigration group March and March. Nicholas Muirhead reports.
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