JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A wave of violence against foreigners in South Africa has forced 13,000 people to flee their homes, the UN said Tuesday, as President Thabo Mbeki pleaded for an end to a "shameful" show of xenophobia.
As calls grew for the army to be sent in to quell the worst unrest since the end of apartheid, the scale of the damage was becoming apparent, both to the victims and the so-called Rainbow Nation's new reputation for racial tolerance.
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By Barry Bearak and Celia W. Dugger JOHANNESBURG: The man certainly looked dead, lying motionless in the dust of the squatter camp.

By Christopher Munnion in Johannesburg South African mobs have launched fresh attacks on foreign workers, as anti-immigrant violence spread across the