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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9783815/South-African-looters-raid-Durban-warehouses-riots-escalate.html

South Africa is in the grip of its worst unrest since the end of apartheid with shopkeepers firing at looters and a woman throwing her baby from a burning mall roof as violence sparked by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma entered its fifth day today

At least 45 people have now died - including 10 trampled to death during a stampede at a looted shopping mall - in riots centered around KwaZulu-Natal and Guateng provinces that began last week and raged through the weekend after 79-year-old Zuma was jailed for failing to cooperate with a corruption probe
The army has been called in to help stem the unrest after fearful citizens began forming 'defence squads' to protect their homes and businesses amid warnings that food supplies could soon run short as supermarket owners shut up shop amid the widespread looting.

The armed forces said they were sending 2,500 soldiers to help the police, who have been utterly overwhelmed.

But these numbers compare with the more than 70,000 troops deployed to enforce last year's coronavirus lockdown, and only handful of soldiers were seen at some shopping centres.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, who Zuma and his supporters accuse of carrying out a witch-hunt against him with the corruption probe, appealed for calm as mobs ransacked shopping malls on Monday night - saying the current unrest is the worst the country has seen since the end of white minority rule in the 1990s.

While the roots of the disturbances may be political, Ramaphosa said, peaceful demonstrations have now been hijacked by 'opportunistic criminals' who are 'instigating chaos merely as a cover for looting and theft'.

'Together, we will defeat those who seek to destabilise our country,' he said. 'We will stand as one people, united against violence, unanimous in our commitment to peace and to the rule of law.' 


The unrest started in Jacob Zuma's home province of KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday after the former president was jailed.

The 'garden province', whose largest city is Durban, still has strong support for Zuma who remains popular among many poor South Africans, especially grassroots members of the ANC, who see him as a defender of the disadvantaged.

The violence soon spread to Gauteng, the economic hub of South Africa that contains Johannesburg and the deprived township of Soweto, its name an abbreviation of South Western Townships.

The country is in a deep economic malaise, with cripplingly high levels of unemployment exacerbated by the pandemic.

Those hardest hit have been South Africa's poor and black populations.

Soweto, where Nelson Mandela lived for 16 years, is made up of 99 per cent black people, whose most common first language is Zulu.

The township was originally created to house black Africans who worked in white factories and houses, and the few businesses allowed in the area were heavily controlled by the apartheid state.

Many in Soweto are still too poor to pay for electricity with more than half of people under 35 unemployed.

Similarly, KwaZulu-Natal is a predominantly black and Zulu population with an estimated 3.2million people living in poverty out of a population of 10.5million.

Nationally, the pandemic has worsened conditions with record levels of unemployment at 32.6 per cent, rising to 46.3 per cent among young people.

Zuma's popularity among poor black Africans combined with their extreme poverty has proved a tinderbox for the country's latest violence

The mob - who had ripped down street signs to use as makeshift shields - hurled rocks and shouted at the store owners, who returned fire using rifles and shotguns before moving down the road towards them.

Wearing bulletproof vests, the men then formed a line in the middle of the street as the looters continued to hurl rocks and hold their ground.

More footage that appeared online Tuesday showed a woman dropping her young child from the top of a shopping mall after rioters ransacked the shops on the ground floor and set them alight - threatening the apartment building above.

A group of people gathered in the street catch the youngster before rushing him to safety, leaving the mother to try and find her own way down from the burning skyscraper. 

Elsewhere in Durban on Tuesday, looters ransacked several retail parks including a large Game warehouse - a retailer which sells electronic goods.

Hundreds of people streamed into the building and removed virtually everything they could carry before jumping into pickup trucks with covered numberplates to make their getaways.

Vandals also trashed a Makro supermarket which was later seen streaming thick grey smoke after apparently being set alight.

Police and security guards attempted to keep the mob under control, but were largely outnumbered.

Meanwhile armoured personnel carriers of the South African army were seen rolling down the streets, but the presence of the troops was not immediately felt. 

Protests began on Friday last week, just hours after Zuma handed himself over to police to begin a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court that he was given for refusing to cooperate with a corruption investigation.

The investigation centres on his relationship with three Indian-born businessmen and billionaires, and includes allegations that he allowed them to ransack government coffers and exert influence on public policy

He is also facing a separate trial over a £3billion arms deal he signed in 1999, when he was deputy president.

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What began as political action by Zuma supporters in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal has quickly ballooned into general unrest over South Africa's entrenched poverty and deeply unequal society which is still largely divided along ethnic lines almost two decades after the first democratic government replaced apartheid

Hulk smaaash! Doesn't build nations! Niggers !... turning an Oasis into a desert. If it is one thing they are good at it's trashing stuff! I hope China has the patience to deal with them if they want to re- colonise the place?!

The cure?? Buckshot and gallows. They're useless feral animals and gotta be treated as such.88

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