"Rioters looted shops, created flaming barricades on roads and engaged in street fights with police, as attacks on immigrants and foreign-owned businesses increase," reported RT.

"Some 50 businesses were looted and damaged on Sunday alone. It's the second outbreak of such violence in the country in the space of a week."

Shocking video shows black South Africans setting fire to other African migrants in the street.

The violence was sparked after a South African driver was shot dead by a drug dealer who was a foreign national.

The wave of xenophobic violence prompted the Zambian Ministry of Transport and Communications to instruct Zambian drivers not to travel through the country.