BBC news with Fiona MacDonald

Thousands of South African miners have cheered the former leader of the governing ANC youth league Julius Malema as he denounced the police for shooting 34 miners on Thursday. Milton Nkosi is at the mine northwest of Johannesburg.

The hundreds of miners had a special visitor, the expelled former ANC youth league president Julius Malema. He told them that the governing ANC is no longer on the side of the poor, but he also called for leadership change right from the very top. On the other side of the mine compound, women were knocking on the gates of the mine hospital. They were demanding a list of those who are admitted from Thursday's shooting. Some of them were singing an old song from the anti-apartheid struggle. What have we done? What have we done to deserve this?

India has said that most of the rumors, that have led to an exodus of thousands of northeastern Indian citizens from cities in the south, have come from Pakistan. About 30,000 people have fled fearing reprisal attack for recent violence against Muslim migrants in the northeastern state of Assam. Shahzeb Jillani reports.

Four days after the panic first dripped the country, Indian officials are keen to show the situation is now under control. Speaking at a news conference, the Indian Home Secretary R K Singh blamed Pakistan for inciting fear and panic among Indians. He said Indian officials had identified websites, text massages and altered pictures allegedly originating from Pakistan to provoke violence against non-Muslim migrants working in South-Indian cities. More than a dozen suspects have been arrested for their role in triggering the crisis.