South Africa's president has cancelled a trip abroad in order to deal with a wave of attacks on immigrants that have killed at least six people.
In the latest violence, mobs attacked shops owned by foreign nationals in a poor area of Johannesburg.
President Jacob Zuma had been scheduled to leave on Saturday evening for Indonesia to attend a meeting of African and Asian leaders, but is instead staying to campaign for a peaceful resolution to the unrest that has swept several areas of South Africa in the past week, his office said.
Mr Zuma has visited immigrants staying in a camp in the Chatsworth area of the coastal city of Durban, where some of the worst violence has occurred.
"These attacks go against everything we believe in. The majority of South Africans love peace and good relations with their brothers and sisters in the continent," Mr Zuma said in a statement.
There was a heavy police presence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg after rioters looted some shops, burned tyres and built street barricades overnight, according to eNCA, a South African news outlet.
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