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S. Africa's Zuma Seeks to Reassure Foreigners as Violence Spreads  

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19 October 2018 15:17 WIB

South African President Jacob Zuma speaks during his State of the Nation address at the opening of parliament in Cape Town (2/12). REUTERS/Rodger Bosch

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - President Jacob Zuma on Saturday (April 18) pleaded with foreigners to stay in South Africa as he cancelled a state visit to Indonesia to deal with a wave of deadly xenophobic violence at home.

Three weeks of escalating anti-foreigner violence in South Africa have claimed at least six lives and forced more than 5,000 immigrants to seek refuge in makeshift camps.

The unrest, which began in the eastern port city of Durban before spreading to other parts of the country, carries echoes of the xenophobic riots that gripped South Africa in 2008 when 62 people were killed.

In the latest incident, police on Saturday said a foreigner died of stab wounds in Alexandra, a township north of Johannesburg. The impoverished area was the focus of much of the day's violence, with officers firing rubber bullets to disperse looters.

More than 30 arrests were made overnight Saturday around Johannesburg alone.

Under pressure to avoid a repeat of the 2008 bloodshed, Zuma travelled to Durban to visit a camp for foreigners displaced by the violence, but he faced a hostile reception from the crowd, which yelled "go home, go home" and "too late, too late".

"As government, we're not saying to you 'go away'. It is not every South African who is saying 'go away'. It is a very small number of people who say so," Zuma said at Chatsworth camp, where he presented a cheque of 50,000 rand (US$4,100) to help the victims of xenophobic victims.

He vowed to end the unrest and sought to assure the crowd there was a place for foreigners in South Africa. "Even those who want to go home, they must know that when we have stopped the violence they are welcome to come back," Zuma said.

The South African leader had been scheduled to fly to Indonesia on Saturday, but he announced he was scrapping the trip "to attend to matters at home relating to the attacks on foreign nationals."

The decision came as alarm grew within South Africa - and from the United Nations and foreign capitals - over the attacks.

Neighbouring Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique have announced plans to evacuate their citizens.

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