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Khayelitsha, a sprawling informal settlement of some 400,000 people about 35km south-east of Cape Town. PHOTO | RODGER BOSCH | AFP

By  CHRIS ERASMUS

Cape Town

Several people were arrested in a pre-dawn security clampdown to prevent a ‘coloured’ (mixed-race) protest designed to shut down Cape Town on Monday.

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