A fresh outbreak of xenophobia in South Africa has left one person dead with five sustaining various degrees of injuries, News 24, a newspaper outfit in the country, has disclosed.

The unidentified victim was stabbed with a sharp object at an alley of Bree and Plein streets in Johannesburg, News 24 understands.

Kay Makhubele, Gauteng police spokesman, said 16 people had been apprehended for public violence and possession of stolen property.

Armed Protesters, during a procession through the streets on Sunday, demanded the repatriation of foreigners, notably Africans, to their countries.

Some shops were looted during the violence.

The protesters were said to have disrupted a gathering which was being addressed by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a notable politician and Zulu tribe leader, on Sunday morning.

The politician, in the wake of the Xenophobic attacks, had gone to address the residents of George Goch, Denver and Jeppestown hostel.

The newspaper reported that the police, in a bid to forestall the chaos that the
Procession degenerated into, fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to restrain and disperse the crowd.

Last week, shops and properties of Nigerians and other African nationals were looted and destroyed.

This made Nigeria, Rwanda and Malawi to pull out of the World Economic Forum which held in South Africa. Zambia cancelled an international friendly match with South Africa over the development.

There were reprisal attacks in Nigeria as South African businesses such as Shoprite and MTN were targetted.