In his first high-profile public appearance since the outbreak of xenophobic violence last year, Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini tiptoed around the issue in his annual speech to open the KwaZulu-Natal legislature yesterday.The king, whose comments last year concerning foreigners were said to have fuelled the tension, said he would convene high-level discussions on the matter, under the KwaZulu-Natal public peace process banner, i n the first week of next month.He said he wanted to invite the SA Human Rights Commission to discuss its recommendations on xenophobic violence and how those recommendations could be used by KwaZulu-Natal.The SAHRC investigated reports last year that Zwelithini's speech during an event in Pongola had sparked the violence against foreigners.The commission released a preliminary report recently to stakeholders, including the king, on the attacks.The monarch said he would also invite premier Senzo Mchunu to table the report of the Special Reference Group on Migration and Community, which is a task team led by former UN High Commissioner for Human Right Judge Navi Pillay.Pillay investigated the causes of the last year's violence, which claimed seven lives and left thousands of foreigners living in South Africa displaced.The report was handed to Mchunu late last year.Zwelithini would also ask Mchunu to table a report into racial tension written by University of KwaZulu-Natal academic Professor Paulos Zulu."As I had said earlier in my speech, it's not only the political parties and the government that need to bother or be in the forefront on issues of peace and reconciliation," he said.While the SAHRC's provisional report exonerated Zwelthini, the commission nonetheless directed him to apologise.He has refused to apologise and demanded that the body release the entire report in Zulu, because that was the language the monarch made the speech in.The king said he had also invited the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities to the summit."We invite them because we can see a lot of things will pit communities against each other, especially those who feel their cultures are exploited and despised. It's good that we avoid that."He also tackled the contentious issue of violence at KwaMashu and Glebelands hostels, saying he would invite traditional leaders to brief him on the progress they have made on resolving the bloodshed at the two former male settlements...