The Zulu king, Goodwill Zwelithini on Monday joined calls for an end to attacks against immigrants as South Africa’s leaders rallied to halt xenophobic violence.
The attacks which had claimed at least seven lives and thousands forced to flee their homes over the past three weeks as mobs of South Africans attacked foreigners, mostly in poor townships.
The violence which first erupted in communities around Durban, the port city in Kwazulu-Natal province; has been blamed the king after he was quoted by a local newspaper last month as saying foreigners were taking scarce economic opportunities away from South Africans and should go home.
However, the king insisted that his speech, given in IsiZulu, had been misinterpreted but the attacks escalated around Durban and spread to Johannesburg, the commercial capital.
He also called for media investigation blaming it for the escalation of the violence.
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