A fourth person has died in three days of looting foreign-owned shops around Johannesburg.
The shop owners say the attacks started after a newspaper reports that they were selling fake and expired goods which they strongly deny.
A woman who was with a group of looters at a township west of Johannesburg was shot dead yesterday (Friday).
No arrested have been made with regards this incident. Police are waiting for the woman’s family to identify her.
On Wednesday and Thursday three people were shot during looting in the giant township of Soweto.
Police have made 27 arrests in connection with this.
They include one Somali who allegedly fired at a young man taking goods from his store.
All four victims are South African.
No foreigners have been killed.
Residents have attacked one another trying to get possession of stolen goods.
The attacks were most led by youths who broke locks and removed stock while the owners either fled or hid.
Police have seized goods from foreign-owned shops and health authorities are testing the food for freshness.
Both Johannesburg and Durban were centre of the worst outbreak of xenophobic violence in 2008 wheat least 62 people were killed.
At least people were killed in attacks on foreign these two cities three years ago.