for "worldfocus," i'm martin seemungal in south africa. >>> finally tonight, two stories from britain that caught our attention this weekend. stories strikingly different but that both somehow speak to our efforts, always ultimately unsuccessful, to defy the limits of age. the first is from our partners at itn, is about the passing of henry allingham. one of the few surviving veterans of world war i, who was said to be the world's oldest man. >> reporter: in the year that henry allingham was born queen victoria was still on the thorn. the first modern olympics was staged. to what was then yet another series win over australia over in the ashes. he died earlier this morning in his sleep having lived for 113 years and 14 days. as a child he watched the soldiers return from the cold war. he lived through the spanish flu pandemic. he was in his 30s when penicillin was discovered. and when the wall street crash happened. he was nearly 50 when the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima. '65 when east germany started to burn the berlin wall and he was 73 years old at the time of the moon landi

our story, by correspondent martin seemungal, first aired earlier this year. >> reporter: it looks and sounds like the old days in south afric africa, the kind of anger once directed at the oppressive white government. >> we should kill them. they are should die. >> reporter: but this was just last week, and the anger was directed at black people, fellow africans, from zimbabwe, nigeria, somalia and elsewhere, who have come from south africa hoping to find a better life. it was called xenophobic violence, fear of the foreigner. foreigners had their businesses destroyed, houses were torched. they were killed with guns and machetes. some were even set on fire, burned alive. the death of ernesto mozambican, shook the nation and shocked the world. within two weeks, the violence had spread across the country. it took a massive deployment of security forces to bring things under control. by the time it was over, 100 people were dead. an estimated 200,000 people were displaced. some took cover in police stations. others found refuge in isolated camps. the kind of refugee camps you'd normally

broadcast last winter, vivid portrait of aidin south afca by "worldfocus" special corresponnt martin seemungal. he traveled to the provincef wazulu-natal, which is now known not only for itseauty but for all its aids phans. >> repter: the tourist brochures call this stunningly beutiful corner o kwazulu. in the the valley of a thound hills but natural beauty hides an ugly trh. >> they stay with t problem ot knowing that they've problem. they try to diaglike ants. >reporter: the problem, hiv. the virus that causes aids. itis estimated that it kills 1,000eople day in this country. eve some of the local are stting to call this area the valley of a thousand orphans. incoseappia and mossam bow are two of near 3 million children orphaned because of ai in south africa and they are hiv-positive. theounger one, 6, doesn talk mu. and doesn't qui understand whatt all means and cosapa 9 does and he knows they ar't the only es. he sas, i know. there a many other cildren at schoolwho have hiv. their older brother 15 doesn't know if he i hiv-positiv he's now thehead of this tiny on-room household. >translator