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Photos show Lesotho minimarket owner, not a corner shop in South Africa

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Anti-immigrant accounts on social media shared photos of a young woman inside a store, claiming she was a South African trader who had opened a spaza shop.

However, AFP Fact Check found that the images showed a couple’s small supermarket in neighbouring Lesotho .

The X account behind the posts communicates on behalf of an anti-immigrant movement-turned-political party.

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