The situation in Diepsloot which has been marred by xenophobic attacks, continued to be "tense and uncontrollable", police said on Saturday.

Captain Louise Reed said extensions one and six were still volatile, with residents setting alight uncollected garbage in the streets.

"The residents are starting fires in the street and lighting up the garbage that has not been collected," she said.

Meanwhile, the chairperson of the community policing forum Samuel Seale said foreigners continued to flee from Diepsloot on Friday night as residents took to the street and burnt their (foreigners) household goods and clothes.

Seale, however, said the situation on Saturday morning appeared calm but feared tensions would rise when people return from taverns in the afternoon. - Sapa