p>Anti-immigrant violence in South Africa spread to the country's second largest city, Cape Town, on Friday, despite the government's decision earlier this week to send army patrols into black townships for the first time since apartheid. Police in Cape Town said mobs of South African men armed with machetes and clubs rampaged through shanty towns, looting and attacking migrants from Mozambique and Somalia. A police spokesman said one Somali died, but investigators were still trying to determine if the death was related to the attacks. "We don't know the exact number of shops looted and burned, but it's a lot," said Billy Jones of the Western Cape provincial police. The violence began in slums around Johannesberg, the country's largest city, earlier this month. At least 42 people have been killed in almost two weeks of violence. Tens of thousands have been forced out of their homes. More than five million migrants, mostly...
Hundreds of Mozambicans that wished to go home, were today deported home in busses, after a spate of xenophobic attacks across South Africa's townships that has claimed at least 24 lives. An...
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