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Mbekweni township is situated on the outskirts of Paarl, one of the Western Cape's premier tourists attractions in the Cape wine country. Xenophobic attacks in the township in May 2008 displaced about 500 foreign refugees and migrants.
Laura Lopez Gonzalez/IRIN

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