As Covid-19 has slammed the South African economy and pushed unemployment to a 17-year high, it's stoking a recurrent social ill: xenophobia. Anti-immigrant groups have staged demonstrations in recent months in Johannesburg, the country's biggest city, and Pretoria, the capital, calling for the mass deportation of foreigners. The provincial government of Gauteng, the nation's economic hub, wants to pass a law in 2021 to limit ownership of businesses in low-income areas, or townships, to citizens and foreigners who are fully legalized.
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