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.

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Noah’s cousin has been brutally murdered in KwaZulu-Natal.

Police are investigating the slaying but no arrests have been made.

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This is the second time the family of the highly-successful Sowetan-born comedian has fallen victim to rampant criminality in South Africa.

In 2009, Trevor Noah’s stepfather shot his mother three times in a violent rage.

A bullet narrowly missed her spine and she survived.

Noah’s cousin Cebisile Happiness Khoza was travelling from her hometown in South Africa’s east coast province to her graduation ceremony.

When she did not arrive, a search ensued and farmworkers found her burnt body in a sugarcane field.

She had been stabbed several times.

Khoza had begun writing her mother’s cellphone number in the dust when she died.

Noah’s grandmother, Nomalizo Noah, says the incidents make her feel that the women in her family are cursed.

Landing the prestigious US talk show slot vacated by Jon Stewart is a huge coup for Noah.

South Africans have celebrated the 31-year-old’s celebrity status as he rubbed shoulders with comedy stars like Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David.

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South Africans have reacted with surprise and delight at this achievement for their favourite humourist.

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Born 31 year ago of a Black woman and Swiss father – a union that was illegal in apartheid South Africa – Trevor Noah used his ice-pick humour and ability to switch between several local languages to ridicule the racial stereotypes that exist in his home country’s new democracy.

Offering South African of all ranks,  colours and political hues nought for their comfort, Noah nevertheless became their best-loved comedian.

His television talk show and sold out concerts had him ranging from parodying President Jacob Zuma stuttering speeches to relating tales of growing up in the Johannesburg’s famous  township where both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu lived.

South Africans hailed his US breakthrough on the Tonight Show with Jay Lenno three years ago.

The ruling African National Congress is among organisations congratulating Noah on latest coup.

His fans include Washington’s ambassador to South Africa Patrick Gaspard who tweeted: This is gonna be wild! America, fasten your seat belts!
Noah’s coming home for a season of shows in May and June – and a visit to his grandmother who still lives in Soweto.

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Foreigners on the outskirts of the provincial capital Polokwane in Limpopo have abandoned their shops after protesting villagers threatened to burn them alive and then looted them.

Violence erupted in the Ga-Sekgopo area after a foreign shop owner was found in possession of a mobile phone belonging to a local man who was killed three weeks ago.

Villagers demanded answers on how the shop owner got the man’s phone.

Police said one of the alleged killers took the phone to the foreigner. They didn’t know whether it was sold to him or was brought there to be fixed.

Violent protests erupted on Sunday with villagers sending all the foreigners packing and pushing them out of 11 villages in Sekgopo.

One of the shop owners says he’s lost his stock and won’t regain the profit lost during the looting.

Other owners are worried that they’re being made to pay for the sins of their fellow foreign nationals.

Police spokesperson Moatshe Ngoepe says police are patrolling the area.

In Soweto residents are expressing frustration at the effects of having threatened foreign shop owners evacuated after xenophobic attacks last month.

They say they have to walk further to do their shopping and prices in local stores are higher than the foreign owners were charging.

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