REIGER PARK, South Africa (AP) -- Police fired rubber bullets and made arrests Monday to try to quell outbursts of anti-foreigner violence in and around Johannesburg, and said the death toll had reached 22.

South African police fired on people with rubber bullets to try and end the violence.

Foreigners -- many of them Zimbabweans who had fled economic collapse and political violence in their homeland -- were being driven from shacks in squatter camps Monday. Men bearing clubs and sticks patrolled in groups along the road near one camp, apparently South Africans guarding against any foreigners trying to return.

South Africans are struggling to find jobs and buy food as prices rise, and they appear to be targeting foreigners they see as competing with them for scarce resources.

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And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale


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