Mbeki makes pledge to immigrants
South African President Thabo Mbeki has said anti-immigrant attacks that left 62 dead must never be repeated.
Mr Mbeki was speaking at a ceremony organised by his government in honour of the immigrants and South Africans caught up in the May violence.
Attacks pitted the poorest of the poor against one another. South Africans in squatter camps and other impoverished areas accused people from neighbouring countries such as crisis-hit Zimbabwe of taking scarce jobs and housing.
Some 9,000 people remain in the tent camps the government organised for those who fled the violence. Thousands of others have returned to their homelands.
Mr Mbeki said South Africans have their heads "bowed in shame" and will work to ensure those who fled the violence can resume their lives in South Africa.