Marathon informal settlement leaders have told foreign residents they will protect them from the small group that started the attacks.
The police and army’s Operation Fiela is only fuelling xenophobia, say NGOs and visitors from nearby countries.
Despite claims that the "crime crackdown" discriminates against foreign nationals, Gwede Mantashe says Operation Fiela has the ANC’s full support.
The problem of migrants is not South Africa’s alone, but a regional one – and it will require regional solutions
Cabinet has decided that Operation Fiela-Reclaim would continue and that a number of "underlying issues" needed to be tackled.
The Alexandra Magistrate’s Court has heard how Mozambican national Emmanuel Sithole was attacked and how the police arrested his alleged killers.
There have been very limited government-led reintegration efforts after the xenophobic violence, writes Emi Maclean from Médecins Sans Frontières.
Xenophobia is a hate crime and most analyses so far are too rational to understand its psychology.
A speech to be given by Julius Malema in Zimbabwe has been cancelled after delegates began pulling out following xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
Twenty-one years after the country’s first democratic elections, some praise the strides made by the ANC and others condemn SA’s gross inequality.
Home affairs has been left to figure out what to do with the hundreds of foreign nationals arrested in last week’s crackdown on illegal migrants.
The men accused of killing Manuel Jossias, initially identified as Emmanuel Sithole, are back in court to face a “strong case against them”.
Spokesperson for King Zwelithini says no comment will be given on the matter of charges laid against the king until they receive a call from the ICC.
The International Criminal Court could step in and effectively overrule the National Prosecuting Authority if the NPA does not or cannot act.
Jeremy Cronin, deputy secretary of the SACP, says South Africa is dealing with the "ghosts of a past that has never truly been transformed".
A rights group has asked the ICC to investigate King Zwelithini’s comments about foreigners – and accuses SA police of being complicit or negligent.
Many migrants do not see the recent attacks as xenophobia per se and blame them on poverty.
Ahead of his performance at the Lifaqane-Mfecane festival in Lesotho, we chat to the rapper about his bucket list, the Samas and xenophobic attacks.
The portfolio committee on home affairs has asked difficult questions concerning the messy problem of xenophobia.
It’s no more Mr Nice Guy as President Jacob Zuma defies his naysayers to crack down on border-hopping, illegal immigrants.
The bleak ironies of migrant life unfolded in the refugee camps around Durban when SA celebrated Freedom Day.
SA condemns the withdrawing of envoys by Nigeria and says it did not blame Nigeria for poorly handling the aftermath of the church collapse in 2014.
President Jacob Zuma on Monday chastised governments who have criticised South Africa for xenophobic violence.
Thousands of South Africans turned out for the march against xenophobia in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Advocate George Bizos said on Thursday that the word "xenophobia" was misplaced; "we are dealing here with the hatred of foreigners".
Across Africa in recent years, cycles of xenophobia, ethnic hatred and homophobia have sometimes degenerated into deadly spasms of violence.
Nigeria says it is summoning the South African ambassador to express its concern over the attacks on fellow Africans and to protest against it.
I refuse to believe that the only reason why I am not in the crosshairs is because I look white. I think I’m just further down the kill list.
Readers write in on the xenophobic violence.
As attacks spread, leading to murder and thousands of displaced foreigners, we must ask if the bitter pill we swallowed then has had tangible results.
Xenophobic attacks continued this week, with the defence force coming to the police’s aid. But Police Minister Nathi Nhleko was conspicuously absent.
South Africa has begun rethinking its immigration strategy as outrage over xenophobic attacks grows.