see url: https://www.ft.com/content/5d1b9604-8b39-41f0-8d7c-fee2948d6fcf
see full story...Even the police are participating in the looting!
Didn't get quite that bad in the USA during the recent summer
riots...still police in the US get very high wages, the South African
police get not a lot...
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As South Africa’s worst public violence in decades swept
Johannesburg and its biggest township this week, Nhlanhla Lux was ready
to defend the shopping centre he called Soweto’s “last elephant” with
his life.
Clad in camouflage and armed with a pistol, the 33-year-old community
leader guarded the closed gates of Soweto’s Maponya Mall with a handful
of police and soldiers on Wednesday, a last line of defence against
rioting that has left more than 70 dead and devastated Africa’s most
industrialised economy. Two hundred other malls like Maponya have been
looted in affected areas, according to business leaders.
“We can’t sit back while the township economy dilapidates further,” said
Lux. “The biggest mall, that employs the biggest number of people, is
the one left standing. If it falls, it’s the last elephant.”
In the past few days, South Africa has come closer to social breakdown
than at any point since the end of apartheid almost three decades ago.
Such scenes of violence have “rarely [been] seen before in the history
of our democracy”, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday. For Lux, it
is clear what is at stake. “I for one am prepared to die” to halt the
unrest, he said. “We are on the verge of eating each other.”
Plumes of smoke seen outside a shopping centre in Durban as a barricade
burns
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