Siphiwe Sibeko, who was born and raised in Soweto township, is a mostly self-taught photographer who joined Reuters in Johannesburg in 2005 after working for several leading South African newspapers. In the following story slugged SAFRICA-VIOLENCE/(WITNESS) and headlined "WITNESS-Photographing evil in S. Africa's townships", he describes covering the anti-foreigner violence that has swept parts of South Africa.

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