According to Daily Mail, he told a tribal gathering of several thousand Zulus in the port city of Durban that he had been misrepresented.
“My speech… was directed at the police, calling for stricter law enforcement, but that was never reported,” he said.
“The public was instead given another side of my speech, which had been twisted and misrepresented.
“This violence directed at our brothers and sister is shameful.”
He told the audience that he had never called on his people to attack foreigners.
“Had I said that, this country would be in ashes,” he said.
Many in the stadium booed when foreign dignitaries were introduced and during multi-faith prayers.
Zwelithini had made an angry speech last month blaming immigrants for rising crime in the country and saying they must leave the country, in an outburst seen as encouraging the spate of attacks on Zimbabweans, Somalians, Malawians and other foreigners.
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