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Photo of Elube Mwalwen

Photo of Elube Mwalwen

Elube Mwalwen, a Malawian national, surveys the damage done to the room she rents in the house in Rosettenville that was set alight during a vigilante attack.
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Date taken
12 February 2017
Photo by
Ihsaan Haffejee
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Ihsaan Haffejee/GroundUp
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Keywords
Rosettenville,  Xenophobia

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