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South Africa is awash with legal and illegal firearms, and shootings are common, often fuelled by gang rivalry, extortion and competition between informal businesses.
The shooting west of Johannesburg on Saturday was part of a bloody weekend, with 10 people killed in another mass shooting in Cape Town on Sunday.
South African authorities have raised the death toll from two weekend mass shootings to 28 after another victim died in hospital. South Africa has long faced violent crime, but Saturday