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BBC News By Andrew Harding Published image copyrightAFP Two weeks after South Africa was gripped by a frenzy of looting and arson - the worst scenes of violence since the advent of democracy in 1994 - the makeshift road blocks and mounds of rubbish in the port city of Durban have been cleared away. But soldiers continue to patrol tense neighbourhoods devastated by a week of anarchy that left more than 300 people dead. Everything is gone. I have no insurance. I m worried about the future of South Africa. I m worried about the future of my kids, said entrepreneur Dawn Shabalala, whose four small shops were looted - down to the last water pipe and electrical fitting.

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