Ten of the bodies had since been repatriated for burial, the report added.
The violence also saw 2,300 Zimbabweans “voluntarily registering to return home”.
Principal director in the Ministry of Information and Publicity, Dr Sylvester Maunganidze, told the Herald that government was doing “all it could to assist its citizens to return safely”.
“There are 2,000 Zimbabweans affected in Cape Town and 300 in Durban. We have asked the International Organisation for Migration to move those to Johannesburg and we will pick them up from there,” Maunganidze was quoted as saying.
Last week the Zimbabwean government sent 10 buses and two trucks to various locations in Johannesburg to collect its citizens who were victims of the attacks.
The buses and trucks were meant to carry about 700 people but later ferried 478, who arrived in Beitbridge on Monday morning.
Maunganidze said some of the victims brought with them household property such as wardrobes and television sets, making it difficult to carry the planned 700 people.
Maunganidze described the co-operation the Zimbabwean government was receiving from the South African authorities as “excellent”.
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