According to eNCA, Ramaphosa says they will continue talks with the community to get to the heart of the problems.

He says they will be engaging community leaders to resolve the issue.

Protests began Wednesday in the township of Diepsloot after it was announced that seven people had been killed there last weekend. 

News24 reported that one person was killed there on Wednesday night, allegedly by a mob, just hours after Police Minister Bheki Cele and the police's top brass visited the area. 

Police Minister Bheki Cele visited Diepsloot on Wednesday following a protest over killings in the suburb. Cele said more police would be deployed to the area. He added he would be back on Friday with Home Affairs officials to deal with the issues of undocumented foreign nationals.

Diepsloot's community policing forum secretary, Kutlwano Moalosi, said they received information on Thursday morning that the man was killed in Extension 1.

The report we received says that community members were patrolling the area and they got into a yard and asked for documents of residents. Apparently, one resident did not have registered documents and then he ran, said Moalosi.

"The community chased after him and caught him and burnt him apparently."

Moalosi said they were still trying to get more information.

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Police spokesperson, Brigadier Brenda Muridili, said the mob went door to door at around 21:00 on Wednesday, and demanded passports from foreigners. When they entered one home, a man fled the scene, she said.

They chased after the man and killed him. The man has been identified as a Zimbabwe national.

On Wednesday, Cele told the media that seven people were killed in the area over the weekend.

The spate of killings triggered mass protests, and the community threatened to shut down the township.

Cele promised the community that about 30 members of the Tactical Response Team and Public Order Policing would be deployed to the area.

"The new national commissioner will bring 10 police vehicles from tonight, and the province will bring six more. This means that in the next 24 hours, the station will have 16 new cars," he said.

News24