19 foreigners were thoroughly beaten by Gauteng residents for not having passports in South Africa
Former acting Gauteng police commissioner Major-General Tommy Mthombeni claimed the people who were assaulted had been found to be foreigners illegally living and working in South Africa.
This followed the gang rape of eight women in Krugersdorp.
Residents barricaded roads and pelted the police with rocks and bottles. The police retaliated with rubber bullets.
