Moeletsi Mbeki, chair of the SA Institute for International Affairs, says it is the government's responsibility to enforce the country's borders. 
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Britain says it will donate about R8m to help victims of anti-immigrant violence living in temporary shelters.
Jhb residents are furious about an emergency shelter set up in their neighbourhood - saying while South Africans suffer, foreigners get "everything for free".
Tshwane Mayor Gwen Ramokgopa says: "We are encouraged that attacks have scaled down. SA needs to restore peace and stability."
Safety Minister Charles Nqakula has blamed criminals, who exploited weaknesses in the government's service delivery, for xenophobic violence.
Xenophobic tension will simmer for years as SA's poor domestic skills base forces it to rely on migrant labour.
SA needs to provide a "special dispensation" for economic migrants from elsewhere in the SADC, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says.
Twelve Zimbabweans were among the 62 people killed in xenophobic violence in South Africa, Zimbabwe's state-controlled Herald has reported.
Government authorities have returned to Blue Waters safety site in Strandfontein, after pulling out when foreigners sheltered there threatened to burn down the site.
The DA has urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to help government assist victims of xenophobic attacks.
A committee had already decided to disestablish the City Deep site for the relocation of foreigners by the time that lawyers initiated a court bid, the Gauteng premier has said.
President Thabo Mbeki has denied reports that the government had been warned by the NIA of the prospect of xenophobic attacks.
The Gauteng Housing Department had allocated houses to foreigners in Alexandra before xenophobic violence erupted, a report has revealed.
Pictures of Ernesto Nhamuave's violent death at the hands of a xenophobic mob were seen around the world, but his Mozambican family have finally been able to bury him.
Immigrant leaders in South
Africa say thousands of foreigners frustrated at
miserable living conditions, are on the verge of retaliating.
The Johannesburg High Court has granted an urgent interdict preventing the relocation of foreigners being accommodated at Johannesburg's Cleveland and Jeppe police stations.
The temporary shelters to accommodate displaced foreign nationals are "unprepared and insecure", says Medicines Sans Frontiers.
Mozambique has begun burying its nationals who were victims of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. At least 30 Mozambicans have been killed in the attacks.
American comedian Chris Rock claims that the saddest thing about xenophobic violence is not that it's "black on black" but rather "broke on broke".
