A member of the South African Police Services (SAPS) watches as hundreds of foreign nationals queue to listen to South African President Jacob Zuma at a temporary refugee camp in Chatsworth, south of Durban, April 18, 2015.
The South African President's visit was marked by hostility from foreign nationals chanting "Go home, go home" and "too late, too late".
The government scrambled to respond to xenophobic violence in Johannesburg and in the eastern port city of Durban that erupted earlier in the week, claiming at least seven lives and forcing more than 5,000 foreigners to seek refuge in makeshift camps. The attacks on immigrant-owned shops and homes in Durban's impoverished townships comes three months after a similar spate of attacks on foreign-owned shops in Soweto, near Johannesburg.