For more than a week, South Africa's poor have unleashed their fury on migrants. At least 24 people have died in the attacks.

South African leaders are now trying to bring the situation under control.

Kalay Maistry, Al Jazeera's correspondent in South Africa, says that police are out in force, but thousands of foreign workers who fled their homes in Johannesburg's townships after gangs of youths began targeting them, say they are still too terrified to go back.

Al Jazeera's Kalay Maistry reports on the attacks in South Africa on foreign workers.

Most of those targeted by the attacks are Zimbabweans and Somalis.

Maistry has spoken to a Somali victim of the violence in the north west province.

South African soldiers have shot and killed a man in a slum east of Johannesburg.

It happened as police were trying to suppress township violence that has targeted migrants in South Africa.

Meanwhile, several hundred people joined a march in protest at the attacks in Johannesburg.

At least 42 people have died, and thousands have fled their homes.

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On TOPSTORY: At least 22 Zimbabwean refugees have been savagely killed by brutal mobs in South Africa. Commenting on this sudden spurt of violence is Georges Lory, director of Internationals affairs and South Africa specialist at RFI radio station.