BBC: Violence against foreigners in South Africa spread to Cape Town overnight with people assaulted and shops looted.
"Groups within the crowd started to loot shops owned by Zimbabweans and other foreigners," police spokesman Billy Jones told AFP news agency.
He said hundreds of African migrants had fled Cape Town's Dunoon squatter camp and 12 arrests had been made.
Officials are to meet to discuss how the wave of violence has hit South Africa's crucial mining industry.
More than 40 people have died and some 15,000 people have sought shelter since the violence initially flared up in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra almost two weeks ago. SA Violence Spreads to Cape Town >>> | May 23, 2008
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback - UK)
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