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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica 4 Jan 2016

    White woman causes racism row in South Africa after calling black people on beach 'monkeys' http://bbc.in/1PaKNCP pic.twitter.com/TbpRa43FAd

    3:42 AM - 4 Jan 2016
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    • Official Ntai Norman Mampane Elikplim Patricia   Osman Izwe Lethu DEJ A VOO KJ Amankwaa omar ben omar The Real KING KONG GORILLA Evans
    66 replies 484 retweets 126 likes
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      2. Mkabayi ka Babakhe‏ @na_sibanibani 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @bbcafrica Britain come fetch your people. Clearly they don't want to live peacefully here. #VacateOurLand

        3 replies 30 retweets 31 likes
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      1. homeslice‏ @ThabiPoopedi 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        While there's no apology, @BBCAfrica was made aware of how their original framing of the debacle was erredpic.twitter.com/30nFF2pxhu

        0 replies 14 retweets 5 likes
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      1. Gaopalelwe‏ @gaomotlhabane 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica @mjoznana Being called a monkey in a country of your birth.This so called rainbow nation is just a fallacy. Just a pie in the sky

        0 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
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      1. Lunga‏ @Lunga_26 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica is racist too. Here's their initial tweet. @robertmarawapic.twitter.com/pNfUCubxDU

        0 replies 2 retweets 1 like
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      2. Gary Kerr‏ @RavenXV 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Gary Kerr Retweeted

        White woman causes racism row after using a racial slur to describe black people on a S.African beach @BBCAfrica https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/683976683603496960 …

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        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      3. Thato‏ @TiiD0 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @RavenXV

        @RavenXV @BBCAfrica get them

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Annelize van Wyk‏ @annelizevanwyk 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica Far more accurate headline

        1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
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      1. Wake Up -VoteEFF2019‏ @AfricaLearn 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica she learnt from the best! That the litter your countries imperialism left us with

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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      1. Jesus' Fave 🙏🏽 👑‏ @lulushezi 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @bbcafrica Apology for previous headline?

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      1. Chepkorir‏ @chepkorirmm 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica at this age we stil have such idiots on the loose. She should be roasted like a pig and left to be eaten bymaggots on the streats

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Egwuatu.‏ @SomtochukWuve 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica No matter the races All are equal before God •

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      1. Firtsbourne Rush™‏ @FirstbourneRush 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica The olive branch that was extended to whites in SA regardless of their brutal- demonic apartheid tendencies was blatantly naive.

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      1. Dead Boi‏ @FKAGhettoBird 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @bbcafrica lmao @ you guys changing the headline.

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      1. Official Ntai Norman Mampane‏ @NNMampane1 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Welcome back in 2016! @BBCAfrica

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      2. Titus Glavee‏ @Torgbui 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica has she been arrested yet?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Khabzela‏ @Kabie77 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @Torgbui

        @Torgbui @BBCAfrica I hear she's hospitalized due to the stress her statement has caused to her.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Titus Glavee‏ @Torgbui 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @Kabie77

        @Kabie77 @BBCAfrica and u believed that too? It's a shame really, that humans expend energy on a 'nonsense' like this. "Old habits die hard"

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Khabzela‏ @Kabie77 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @Torgbui

        @Torgbui @BBCAfrica believed what? That she's hospitalized?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Titus Glavee‏ @Torgbui 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @Kabie77

        @Kabie77 @BBCAfrica Yes, I meant. Hospitalised. She probably in there to get away from the hulabaa luu.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Khabzela‏ @Kabie77 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @Torgbui

        @Torgbui @BBCAfrica I suppose the statement was made to protect her as some people threatened to go to her house. Petrol to fire I tell you

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Titus Glavee‏ @Torgbui 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @Kabie77

        @Kabie77 @BBCAfrica that's precisely what I meant. It's all smokescreen and fake distress. She meant what she spewed and shouldn't hide.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Khabzela‏ @Kabie77 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @Torgbui

        @Torgbui @BBCAfrica you're right, she has to face the music.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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