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Olamide Francis with Agency ReportFILE: South Africa Police Services officers stop looters from looting in central Durban, on Sunday. Photo: AFPAt least 117 persons have died and 1700 arrested in the unrest that has continued to rock South Africa for the eighth day.

In one of the largest deployments of soldiers since the end of white minority rule in 1994, the government said 10,000 soldiers were on the streets by Thursday morning and the South African National Defence Force has also called up all of its reserve force of 12,000 troops.

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