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Did Africa unite only for the World Cup?

Saturday, 10 July 2010

'South Africa Braces for New Attacks on Immigrants' reads the New York Times headline.

But for the past few weeks South Africans have welcomed one and all with open arms, Africans from all countries have been united in cheering on any African team on the field, and the entire continent has been bursting with shared pride.

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To find out we sent our reporter, Rowbow, to Yeoville in Johannesburg, an inner-city neighbourhood of 40,000, two thirds of whom are immigrants from Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, DR of Congo, Ghana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Somalia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.