Several make-shift spaza shops believed to be owned by foreign nationals have been looted and some vandalized in Kliptown, Soweto.
Protesters in Soweto are marching to hand over a memorandum of demands to government officials, saying demonstrations will continue until their demands are addressed.
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A group of protestors, mostly youngsters, went on the rampage and started vandalising and looting some spaza shops in the area.
Some of the marchers are armed with sticks calling for undocumented immigrants to return to their countries.
The situation remains tense and a large police contingent is monitoring the area.
One of the marchers says undocumented migrants need to leave South Africa.
“We want these people (to) go. We are not harming anyone. We are marching peacefully. So they must go. They don’t have documents, they live for free, so they must go.”
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