A Reuters photographer saw several shops being looted in the town of Hammersdale, Kwazulu-Natal, on Wednesday. Local TV stations meanwhile showed more looting of shops in South Africa's largest township Soweto, and in the Indian Ocean port city of Durban.

Soldiers have been sent onto the streets to help outnumbered police contain the unrest and order was being restored in some places on Wednesday, such as the northern Johannesburg township of Alexandra, local TV reported.

The National Hospital Network (NHN), representing 241 public hospitals already under strain from Africa's worst COVID-19 epidemic, said it was running out of oxygen and drugs, most of which are imported through Durban, as well as food.

"The impact of the looting and destruction is having dire consequences on hospitals," the NHN said. "And the epicentre of the pandemic is within the affected provinces currently under siege." Staff in affected areas were unable to get to work, it said, worsening shortages caused by a third wave of infections.

As authorities in Durban seemed powerless to stop looting, vigilantes armed with guns, many of them from South Africa's white minority, blocked off streets to prevent further looting, Reuters TV footage showed. One man shouted "go home and protect your homes".

Other residents gathered outside supermarkets waiting for them to open so they could stock up on essentials.

The poverty and inequality fuelling the unrest has been compounded by severe social and economic restrictions aimed at curbing COVID-19. The United Nations in South Africa expressed concern that disruptions to transport for workers from the riots would exacerbate joblessness, poverty and inequality.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-crowds-rampage-overnight-defying-calls-end-violence-looting-2021-07-14/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOwfzkrxlKw

This is serious, and getting out of hand

SA needs someone like Buhari to rule them for just two days to bring bout silence

Animals

Touts and violence inclined people are everywhere sha; not only Nigeria.

Damnnn niggar
Isoright

Africans and their stupidity

Dx guys no wise atall

Useless country...

Looting spree

The rate of unemployment in SA is alarming..

See the way they make looting as national trademark

human are Savage in reality.. the authority are not doing their work well that's why the damage is much... this case here need to be tackled carefully if not lives will be lost..

It is the first time a former president has been jailed in post-apartheid South Africa, and has been seen as a landmark for the rule of law in the country but 79-year-old Zuma, former anti-apartheid fighter remains popular among many poor South Africans.
Poverty will always fight back…

We hope things are resolved quickly so South Africans don't start flooding our country in hundreds of thousands, seeking asylum.

Amotolongbo:
Many of them aren’t jobless but lazy to work.

One even looted a coffin. Please to do what, bury himself or household?

A guy looted dîldo. To Bleep his anus?

Are you serious?
Looting coffin? That must be a joke and for the one with the Love Machine, maybe he can't perform and decided to suprise his gf with the real tin!

This looting is simply insane!


Oan,
And another funny thing is that the sets of hoodlums and criminals that looted people's private businesses during the #endsars protest,
That up till now, those innocent citizens are yet to get their lives together,
are still part of those condemning their fellow criminals in SA!
Look at them forming saints!

Bunch of hypocritical swines and idiots!

V

Kandeed:
SA needs someone like Buhari to rule them for just two days to bring bout silence

What has the dullarrd done to bandits , iswap, bokoharam and herdsmen. Rubbish of a president.

The black race sha. The minority white control moat of the resources. But regardless this looting is not an excuse biko

The reason why they are rioting is simple.

In Africa, everything is by 'who you know'. With Zuma out of the way because of his corrupt activites, a large segment of the crowd ritoing have lost that 'who you know'...that can help them get government jobs and benefits.

Add the fact that South Africa is, like Nigeria,and most African countries, a resource dependent nation, who sells diamonds, platinum, etc...and shares the money among their people.

These people are rioting because they are angry over the loss of their share of the national cake.

Understand that, and you will understand why people rioted in the North of Nigeria in 2011 over Buhari losing, or why most Southerners are still so bitter and angry over GEJ losing in 2015.

You don't see that kind of nonsense in developed countries because the government is not dependent on extractive industries for revenue...rather more on manufacturing industries. So, the average developed country's politician's job is to make sure everything works there so that manufacturing can continue unabated. Here in Africa...just keep the oil running, while we share the money....and don't make anything. No industries, no jobs....more idle hands for satan's workshop

If God can regret creating man, nothing foolish men do any longer surprise me.

Nations have a lot of work to do to restore morals and contentment to the coming generations.

The Poor masses wants everyone to remain poor

This is no longer looting o .
It is disaster.
I can't just say if it's natural or political disaster.

Africa na wa

Who do Africa this thing?

Zuma stole South Africa's money but because he's your tribesman you enter street dey protest.

Same thing in Nigeria.

No wam.

That's their problem.

They will be the one to suffer it later. Sheybe they don't have encephalon

Bad

Africa is doomed

Nah eh! No qualms
This is so unsophisticated

Jobless sA youths