p>Anti-immigrant violence in South Africa spread to the country's second largest city, Cape Town, on Friday, despite the government's decision earlier this week to send army patrols into black townships for the first time since apartheid.
Police in Cape Town said mobs of South African men armed with machetes and clubs rampaged through shanty towns, looting and attacking migrants from Mozambique and Somalia.
A police spokesman said one Somali died, but investigators were still trying to determine if the death was related to the attacks.
"We don't know the exact number of shops looted and burned, but it's a lot," said Billy Jones of the Western Cape provincial police.
The violence began in slums around Johannesberg, the country's largest city, earlier this month.
At least 42 people have been killed in almost two weeks of violence. Tens of thousands have been forced out of their homes.
More than five million migrants, mostly from Zimbabwe and Mozambique, have flocked to South Africa to work in its mines and tourism sector.
President Thabo Mbeki's decision to call in the army earlier this week did lead to a few days of relative calm, but CBC's David McGuffin in Johannesberg says the latest developments are of huge concern to the authorities.
"After what had been a couple of days of quiet here, it [violence] clearly has spread to part of the country the government thought it wouldn't go ," McGuffin says.
Soaring food and fuel prices in South Africa have helped fuel the violence, along with the persistence of black poverty in the country, many years after the dismantling of the apartheid system.
President Mbeki's pro-business economic policies are coming under increasing criticism from the left of his governing African National Congress party. There is also concern that he has not been taking a hard enough approach to quelling the violence, waiting nearly ten days before calling in the army.
Attacking mobs are usually made up of jobless young men who chant slogans urging foreigners to go home or face death, police and relief officials say.
Thousands of migrants have gone with their families to makeshift refugee camps near police stations. Many more have been heading home, especially to neighbouring Mozambique which delcared a state of emergency this weeks as ten thousand of its citizens clogged border points trying to leave South Africa.
The United Nations has expressed concern about the violence with an official of the U.N. refugee agency terming the crisis "bad for South Africa's image as a rainbow nation."
The black-led, multi-racial government that came to power after the fall of apartheid in the early 1990s had led to immense hopes for a society ripped asunder by years of official racism.