Officials concede SA’s intelligence failed to pre-empt xenophobic attacks

Thousands of hostel dwellers armed with sticks and knobkerries marched on the Johannesburg CBD, looting shops and vandalising property on Sunday.

"When this started last week, I'm one of the people who said there has been a failure of intelligence," Mapisa-Nqakula said. "The acts are not just sporadic. When you get intelligence, it is meant to guide you, it is meant to help you conduct your operations. What we've seen here is criminality." This costly failure in the country’s security system has not only led to the deaths of 12 people, but also loss of business and reputational harm for South Africa.

Last week, Nigeria’s governing party the All Progressive Congress urged its government to nationalise South African businesses operating in the west-African country. Telecoms giant MTN and pay-tv operator MultiChoice said they were not alarmed by the fallout from the crisis.

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