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- Shocking images of smashed windows, destroyed metal security doors and stores stripped of anything worth stealing have gripped South Africa. Uniformed police officers have stood by as looters made off with boxes of stolen goods, and small store owners were left picking through the wreckage of their businesses. Videos of people showing off looted items have streamed alongside shots of the army patrolling the streets.
Numbers give only an indicator of the damage to South Africa over the last few days. Over 70 dead, more than 1,200 arrested for looting and at least 200 shopping malls across the Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces ransacked. Those provinces include the major cities of Pretoria, Johannesburg and Durban.
The full economic cost of the unrest is yet to be counted, but eThekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda in KwaZulu-Natal told reporters more than 15 billion rand (about $1 billion/€875 million) worth of property and equipment had been damaged, affecting 40,000 businesses. COVID-19 vaccine centers were forced to close in affected areas, and clinics and pharmacies were not spared in the looting either.
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In SA if the media says it's bad... you know it's 1000 times worse in reality.
I have seen videos with bodies lining the streets death numbers are way higher
In order to build back better you must first tear down .
the president in jail
@@halaheleu7013 ask how that worked in Rhodesia...
South africa is garbage theres a channel that mainly helps homeless and its mostly white south africans
I’m in South Africa in a city hit hard by the protests in a lower-middle suburb, there are no cops or soldiers anywhere to be seen. The only form of protection we have hereis the like 30 people from the neighborhood watch group standing by the entrance into our neighborhood. It’s utter chaos.
Conserve ammo and work as a team. Limit exposure to women and children.
This WILL come to pass !
Today army arrive
John S, how widespread is this unrest in SA? Every report mentions couple of same cities. Is it localized in just couple of these places or is it happening all over the country?
@@ProbablyTooLoud It's not like women can't fight.
@James Howlett No, colonisation and the following apartheid was the mistake.
They rioted for Zuma- a person who helped make them poor by his corruption.
this is 3rd world democracy and it's coming to the USA.
wow its like the rot started from the top
Just like when trump supporters rioted
he has teflon image
@@lanefair2950 or BLM looters
Looter: I'm hungry, I need a TV to eat
:))))))))
Bro lol
Ha-ha-ha-ha.. I need a 4x4 to eat and new one too.... (Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha..........)
first it was a protest for Zuma, but once people saw the police were overwhelmed by the protestors, they began to loot what they needed. then more people saw people get away with looting, so they began to take whatever they wanted.
@won doyouwant they are going to eat each other mark my words
To be honest, I thought this would have happened years ago. That the country held it together for so long is impressive. It was always the joke that the only difference between South Africa and Zimbabwe was 20 years.
When someone in Europe tells you that all people are the same...
ahahahahahahhah, we can maybe apply this to other parts of the world
People are the same but people are not the same :)
Unlike the brain, the stomach alerts you when it's empty.
African Proverb
So you need to eat flat screen TVs?
None of those rioters looked starving. In fact I'd argue they looked obese.
@@DreweTube That's not what the proverb means. It means people think they're smart until they realize how little they know.
very true, it's so sad.
I never saw someone eat a TV...
@Cobra Zelena 🤣
Looting shops and Malls can't be a called protest.
This is organized loot of valuable items.
But to believe in that you need an IQ over 60
no, it started as protests, but the protests overwhelmed police. when the police were occupied with protestors, criminals take advantage. the same story happened in the US last summer, the police were so busy brutalizing innocent people trying to protest that they weren't stopping the criminals looting their communities.
Thats what the blm rioting/looting was in the USA run by the 13% of population mayors.
Its peaceful protest, bro!
It used to be: "The large majority of the protests are peaceful, only some people loot."
Now it is: "The large majority of protesters are peaceful looters, making their voices heared against poverty. Only a few people commit arson afterwards."
I feel the tolerance for looting has gone up significantly in the past few years.
We are so scared. We’re running out of food. Many areas have no water and electricity. Our family business that we worked so hard to build was trashed yesterday. We’re just trying to survive at this point. Please spread the word and raise awareness. We need any help we can get. 🙏🏻😭
@Lord of frogs great great grandfather what was the point of lol
@@farzananoor6415 because this is funny. They literally checkmated white people you are damned if you want to help by governing them and you are damned if you leave them to their own stupidity.
Damn i feel bad for you ! And i also live in a rundown country ! 🇮🇶🇿🇦
Tell me more... what do we tell people? I’m a journalist. Is this really about gun control?
Survival of the fittest is the game! You need to buy guns to protect yourself and family.
So fighting unemployment by creating more unemployment by crushing/attacking already existing employments? Makes sense
Yeah it's not that simple. But I'm guessing you've never been in close to such a dire situation. If you're unemployed it's not exactly the easiest thing to just wait around especially when it doesn't look like it'll be fixing itself anytime soon
@@s1mplem4gic58 Maybe that sort of thinking is the reason they are unemployed.
It's the modem Era logic now it seems. It's with everything also, fighting fire with fire
Get their attention
@@ansh7335 Your very probably wrong , it's the system that shapes the way people think . Name one country in the world that has full employment excluding Cuba and Vietnam , the answer is zero . Unemployment is maintained to keep inflation down and interest rates low , so the people with capital can borrow more money and that's a fact .
"If you want to test a man's character, give him power"
No give him business.
What do you mean
give him loot
Power to loot or power to stop this stupidness?
Keep voting ANC and this is what you get.
I thought this was Zuma's doing?
@@mr.factoid105 No... the current leadership has an agenda... Unfortunately
This isn't an ANC problem per se. If the current administration keeps rooting out corruption and building things up, then I have no issue with the ANC. I wouldn't be surprised if parties like the EFF had some form of involvement.
@@springbok4015 I am detecting a high level of Machiavellian fuckery
So true. When I was still a scholar during the 2019 election a lot of my SMART and intelligent classmates supported the ANC, simply because “Apartheid”. 😒I think they’re bewitched at this point.
Why is South Africa following Zimbabwe’s footsteps
@@misterbig9025 Oh look a racist
@@pixel6698 try to even write it correctly first, genius
@@gre894 Imagine defending a racist by pointing out a basic typo
@Lord of frogs great great grandfather I wonder if having your country raped of all its wealth by European powers for centuries has anything to do with it?
They always want to blame on others for problems.. always look excuses !
Blaming Whites gets easy votes for politicians, they know the voters vote them if they blame or threaten whites !
What's scary is that we're not even in the thick of it, this is only the beginning.
On the contrary, the peak has come and gone, it's now the clean-up phase.
First commit that is dead on.
@@KennyFoord clean-up? you mean the government paying double or triple to get those companies to stay in your **** country and the prices sky rocket , my man you dont know whats coming ...
They don't understand the Ten Commandments Exodus 20. Their parents didn't teach them how to behave.
This is the first week of a years long humanitarian crisis that will be greater than Rwanda. There is no recovery from this. Eat while you can. The next meal is years away. The lucky ones are the bug farmers.
All this because of one corrupt politician... Africa will never learn.
True that and race "can't" be blame this time eh?
Sometimes is lack of education
@@monocomo1675 Honestly if they don't wanna be educated what else can you do to help? It's not like we can force them to get educated. Most showed that they don't want to get educated and the few ones that did either left country or tried to start businesses only to have them destroyed now. If that's what you get for educating yourself and trying to make a living those people will never make it.
Most of the time I can Give advice or at least tell people what they did wrong in order for them to never repeat the same mistake but this, man this is messed up for good.
Thats why just keep your mouth shut and let nature takes its course.
He just a doll. Nobody really care about him. That's about payed protesters and lying to poor masses.
Its class warfare. However instead the poor fighting the rich we have the poor fighting the slightly less poor.
No it's racial warfare
Exactly like the Soviet Union, peasants with nothing fighting peasants with a tiny bit of land
@Magne M You talk about the present. In the early days of the sozialist and communist ideas the class/wealth structure of Europe was very alike the class/wealth structure of present day African countries. A lot of really poor people, some less poor people, a tiny slice of middle-class and a few astronomically rich people.
@Innocent Bystander You know Germany's RAF? They went after the really rich people. I still agree with you, though.
I have seen plenty of homeless majority are white in south africa. So i do feel slightly less pity for the store owners.
This is the start. I'm not ashamed to admit, If I was a "White" or an Indian in South Africa I would be looking for a way out now.
First destroy all facilities and warehouses then after one month start crying for Foreign Aid and assistance to re-build those infrastructure and do corruption in-between. Who will suffer in all this mess, only the poor people who in first place severed as the tools of destruction.
watch them blame this on the white folks
That dream of a Wakanda like future in SA, gone in a matter of days.
Rawanda is closer to being Wakanda these days
There wasn't any to begin to with 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@beautyan5309 isn't rawanda heavily chinese influenced?
@Charlie Zelenoff why the hostility are u ccp 50cent army officer?
@@MohitKumar-jf8lz no, it’s native influenced
They're digging their own grave :) who are they fighting against? The successful businessmen and minority communities that they hate but get employment from
Logic and reason has no effect on that type of mentality.
It's like explaining a grocery store to a dog.
@@ProbablyTooLoud heh gave me a good chuckle that one.
They do there Father work...
@@ProbablyTooLoud "It's like explaining a grocery store to a dog."
Its like explaining you human values.
Perlen vor die Säue
@@halleffect5439 it's a proverb mate. Like when someone constantly don't listen to your point or don't understand something and you say "explaining you is like explaining infront of a bull".
The real reasons of those riots is because Rashford, Sancho and Saka missed the penalty kicks.
😂🇩🇪
😂
looting will only make themselves poorer.
Bring back British rule 🇬🇧🙂
The South African government should definitely compensate business for their loss otherwise business owners will lose confidence in South Africa.
Doing that would end up creating inflation.
The only way that they can do that is by hiking the petrol price, which is coming next month. Government needs to get money for the SASRIA payouts that are looming and most of the state funds have been stolen due to corruption.
How come failed govt can help
If I have a business there. I wouldn't even think of trying to reopen my business there lol... Just gonna leave
Inflation is the last thing on their mind. Law and order, then a stable economy.
South Africa sends an extra 25,000 -soldiers- looters to stop looting
I wanna go😂😂😂 where to apply?
@@toniace2274 Apply at ANC headquaters (Johannesburg) collect your copy of the communist manifesto and George Floyd t-shirt, and youre good to go
25k soldiers to stop looting of already looted stores
@@misterbig9025 yes, Im sure youre right, it will be quite a relief when we can get back to normal woke marxist SA
@A Velsen says the guy who a week ago was probably saying the people who are involved in corruption and nepotism in the ruling classes is not even a sizable minority
Yet they are calling for employment, what company will like to invest in your country? Shame on all the looters.
Africa being africa.
In the 80s South Africa pioneered open heart surgery.
Now police can't protect against looters from destroying shops in entire cities.
What's changed?
Its in 2 cities
Democracy
Same corruption, just incompetent leadership
Tribalism is de-evolution !
corrupt government doesn't wants to loose their votes by letting the cops us force
Has anyone tried blaming white people yet? I've heard that works.
They should
Lol you were bred for slave labor Todd
Wow, just thirty years from Nelson Mandela ready to create a forward looking democracy and South Africa has imploded!
30 years are nothing. Appartheid will still have a effect in 100 years.
@@halleffect5439 No just no sir
@@halleffect5439 Nonsense, the USA fired bombed Tokyo and dropped 2 Atom bombs (Nagasaki and Hiroshima) to end WW2 in the Pacific Theatre in the 1945. Within 20 years after WW2, Japan was one of the leading Economies in the World. India was under British Rule which ended in 1947. By 1980, 33 years later, India had the 10th largest Economy in the world in terms of GDP. Today, 40 years later, it is 3rd to 5th (depending on which economic research you site) only behind the USA and China/ Japan and Germany. Germany was totally leveled during WW2, by 1980 35 years after the end of WW2 it was the 3rd largest economy in the world and today it is ranked 4th/5th .
@@palermotrapani9067
Germany had the marschal plan.
Japan similar.
So you agree with me spending money into SA economy will help this people?
PS: 30 years after communsim east european countries are underperforming. Because of no help.
@@halleffect5439 No I don't agree Western Countries or Asians or anyone else should spend money in SA. Humanitarian aide yes, but direct investment, no. Look at what is happening. Eastern European Countries are underperforming relative to Western Europe and the leading Asian Economies, and most have not recovered from Communism. Poland however is one country that has turned it around and I would argue that is because it is still a country tied together by cultural, linguistic and ethnic solidarity. Many of the countries in the former Soviet block suffered the same things many African countries suffered post independence from the UK, France, etc. Ethnic strife (e.g. Balkans).
Goodbye South Africa. Nice knowing you.
I am happy to say that my friend's book store wasn't looted at all (besides the empty cash register and the flower pots)
Looters quite smart at assessing market value in their neiborhoods
Same happened here in the US. I saw video of looters going into a Nike store and some others but completely ignored the Barnes and Noble.
The looters are uneducated. They don't like books.
ANC instead of feeding books and teaching the people who elected them how to fish; were busy enriching themselves and the sad part is that they figure out how to use the populace they have created as a weapon when needed.
Well who didnt see this coming?
The shocking part is that those looters destroy their own economy. Among them are hundreds if not thousands who lose their job because their company has been looted as well who now have to file bankruptcy. One day of looting destroys the looters job and their continous income. That is stupidity by definition.
Cuz they are dumb. Noticed??
Plot twist: the soldiers join in on looting
Actually maybe...😂
Some videos are circulating where police was looting.
You're not too far off hey, we found clips of our officers joining in on the looters😭😂
Rioters to soldiers Uno
This is SA, no twist needed, it's a given. Just look at the soldiers in the video and see how they walk around aimlessly, the same thing happened when Mandela died and they had police outside his hospital, same indifference to doing their job.
@@Catubrannos Personally I think that SA government should send troops it knows can be relied on (maybe even special forces). That kind of looting should be classified as national safety level emergency (which considering the damage, it is) which would be a good justification for declearing state of emergency of even a martial law in the affected regions. That I think, would probably be the fastest and most effective way to stop that Madness. But of course finding reliarable soldiers might not be that easy (more like very hard)
Mostly PEACEFUL LOOTING
lmao
Mandella's dream, lol. What a disgrace.
I am South African. The leadership of this country has sold out to out. South Africa had mineral resources that the Western world is looking for. Gold, copper, iron, etc... Same with other African countries.
one day africa will bloom, even if we no longer experience it and are already dead. all love from europe. you africans have all this pain that has been inflicted on you over and over and is just not deserved. I wish you the best brother
Time forcthe Chinese to colonise ....
What happens when the gap between poor and rich reaches its climax “lawlessness!” This is just history repeating itself people!
When you send your country back 30 years in 3 days.
In 3 weeks when everyone is starving they will realise you cant eat TVs, clothes and shoes.
Wow, your a big brain.
Ya and everyone of your friends and family lost respect for you because they all no you are a useless thief
Know
@@martinsmith852 exactly Martin, this will interrupt the food chain for a long time, next will be peoples homes being robbed for food.
Then they'll have to uncork all the liquor they looted to celebrate.
Rip Rhodesia rip South Africa
South Africa was once the richest countries in the world not just in Africa. Sad how just two decades is enough to have this country change from richest to rags.
The lesson is about who rules the country. It is time for the Chinese to take over. They will make a silk purse from this sow's ear .......
Well south Africa have been robbed of it's natural resources over the years so of course eventually it would have come to this SMH
@@freshprince3350 South Africa had enough besides resources to be a wealthy country.
The attitude and values of too many of it's people are horrendous. The work ethic is non existent.
@@Irishtradchannel ok I was gonna say South Africa supposedly has so much natural resources that they should be one of the richest countries in the world but I guess that has changed since other countries basically go in and steal all of it...for example I heard they literally have a "mountains full of diamonds and gold"🤔
Wakanda Forever!!
The government message 'Defending yourselves makes it worse'....The government can't help you. It started this all.
Does anyone see a pattern around the world? It’s the same. Lol
Yep lol but shhhhhh! Not so loud lol.
@@eldridgedavis Hahahahahahaha
Why should the international community help. How will they learn if they don’t have to deal with the consequences of their actions, but always, with some justification, the suffering of the innocents and the help they receive will end up benefitting the guilty.
And plus they're just going to be ungrateful anyway. When the International Community goes in and tries to fix something all they do is complain about.
Yes telling the people to not take up arms or Justice in their own hands while the Government tells the people to let the Police or Military to handle it. While hearing Police cannot handle the situation and the Military can't be deployed everywhere.
Insane ain't it?
Ask US how to deal with this?...Answer: Defund the Police!
That's not what happened in this US
ANC will just blame apartheid again.
@@grady7420 what about Nike stores looted?
@@honprarules yep even apple stores😄
If you expect the community to stand back during protests, then give us an effective police service that can protect us.
Then they'd be accused of racism
How is it possible when there are police and army joining in the looting?
Everyone has opinions on why this happened. Sadly the elephant is still in the room. The media will continue to dance around the truth.
Agreed
What is the truth?
When people have to take up arms because the government has been absent for days, that’s a major sign of a failed state. The COVID complications that are bound to show up over the next two weeks might be horrible. I don’t think there’s a plan for that in place yet. I feel bad for South Africa as things will surely be worsening over the next month.
There are no covid complications. In the US we had thousands of BLM riots and looting with not a single covid transmission.
@@chivimbe
Yes, but we also have a much bigger portion or the population that was vaccinated as well.
@@king0dasouf I’m talking about middle of 2020 when the vaccine wasn’t created yet
@@chivimbe
When the pandemic was in its infancy? Where but three months later we had enormous deaths? You’re showing y to o do quite well for yourself. Come on man!!!
Also South Africa’s covid response has been insane, which adds to the unemployment and worse economic. Desantis in Florida is a good example of how to correctly respond to covid
Africa continent is still a long road to freedom of stability and peace.
Or intelligence.
Also a big thanks to all the legally armed civilians who stood up against the looters. All the focus is on the police and army but these ordinary heroes deserve just as much praise for doing their part. To those who stood up for the rule of law against looting criminals, I thank you.
I am sick of the media saying this looting is occuring all over the country. Its only happening in parts of Kwazulu-Natal and some parts of Johannesburg. The rest of the country is peaceful.
As an American, I support Cape Independence.
To the hard working people of SA I feel your pain and pray that you will see through this.
Looting also happened during BLM riot. Do they share the same gene?
nope ! they share the same shares on wallstreet
Dammn since when did everyone get so based
@Quentin ANDRES Thats humans for you, were a lot eviler than we think we all have our own shadow that can creep out
@Quentin ANDRES
Just try to survive?
By looting 55 inch TV?
@Quentin ANDRES Were all evil read ordinary men or look into psychology and criminology in WWII even the must innocent goodie two shoes became absolute monsters we all like to think were saints but put in the environment which would Foster our evil side you'd be a monster and I'd be a monster and we'd enjoy it even soldiers today say they love killing the majority of them
A Rainbow nation will and can never work.The cultural background and fundamentals are just to different...Its time to realise that this was just an ideology.The only thing that happened was millions of people who just kept quiet.....this storm was brewing for years and years....its sad and devastating...
it can work when the cultures shar most values and dont conflict with each other. Like indians in europe they integrate well and respect european culture. Some other cultures tho... well, not so much
@@captainalex157 i live in sa and no it cant work.
@@vryheidvirdieboervolk973 what is it like where you live?
Lol it can Work look at the USA despite their problems
@@glennashia1421 I am an American citizen, it has worked till this point, but there are cracks in the system. The push of Identity politics by the marxist left wing in this country is in my view causing damage that the USA may not be able to recover from. Of course maybe I am wrong and being pessimistic but I sort of see the USA sort of where the Roman empire was around 350 AD. Of course, about 100 years later it would split, etc, etc. I will long dead and gone by then but the splits are here.
This is what happens when you fail to Educate
Are you sure?
When South Africa had educated white people in leadership the result was apartheid.
@@martmofo8353 LOL, Good one!
Someone help me understand isn't this burning and looting gonna make them even poorer at the end of the day ?OMG this is bad
Yep
Let’s remember we are only 3 meals away from chaos.
"Right to protest doesn't mean creating insecurity , looting , and endangering common people's lives".
The same cops that have also looted from the shops or the cops that arrest the looters put them In the vehicle and watch them run away as they jump out the same vehicle two seconds later and run away without chase?
They always had access to the Holy Spirit to fight corruption Psalms 54, 91, 140.
This is like the x100 version of the BLM riots.
Unemployment skyrocketed during the almost 9 year of his term. It went from a downwards trend with 22% percent to almost 30% by the time he left his office. His predecessors did a great job at reducing the rate of unemployment, it went from 30% to around 21%, he unwinded all of that, yet people come to support him? For what?
they dont think like that. They hear him speak with charisma and authority and blindly follow. group dynamics and blaming "the white man". Really its sad
Not really, South Africa problem's before 94 were created by boycotts, war, and terrorisms, and uncertainty. At 94 with those gone South Africa started to show what it should have achieved. Those leaders after 94 were just riding a wave of good infrastructure left to them and disillusioned overseas investors. However when the disillusioned investors started to see what really goes on they started to disappear, and our infrastructure started crumble due to lack of money, and a lot of incompetent's people getting jobs they didn't deserve because of racist employment laws meaning a lot of wealth sits with people who didn't earn it through hard work, discipline or whatever. Just connections, and they don't use that wealth to create more jobs , just buy big fancy cars and send the money overseas. And youth unemployment sits at 64%, why? Because they just took all the old jobs and didn't create new ones.
She's telling people to let the looters do what they want. Some people don't know what to do with freedom
What's your advice? Get weapon and shooting them?
@@NomoStilta Yes, the looters should be shot.
Things are very hard.. business have been destroyed..we have no money we just inside the house...we pleading for any help we can get
Very Peaceful protest by standards of BLM !!
Mostly peaceful fires lol
They're going to starve more now ny destroying the shop's n distribution centers
Very fast action taken , after one month of violence and looting .👏👏 Slow claps.
What DW is not reporting is that it's people very high up in the governing party that are organizing these riots. That's why they are not sending police.
Also, they are NOT deploying 25 000 soldiers, they are THINKING about doing it.
Also, DW are NOT reporting on the fact that government is saying minorities are responsible for rac|al violence because they are trying to defend their families and their property against looters. When I say minorities I mean Indian, White and Colored people.
@@BillClinton228 source ?
After 5 plus days, the lethargic military decides to roll in.
The police where overwhelmed on day one.
@@flippytheaustraliansquirre7471 I AM THE SOURCE I LIVE IN THE COUNTRY
@@BillClinton228 big brain youre just a guy called YO :D could you link maybe a local newspaper article or something ?
Do you know what race of the looters ?😅😅
Sending out troops after everything was said and done. Too little too late Mr. President and Cele.
You said the unrest was due to inequality and poverty. Do you have any proof of that? I heard it was due to President Zuma's jailing. It's funny you were blaming it on inequality while showing a shot of graffiti on a wall that said "We want Zuma back!" and still you did not mention it. DW are you turning to 'fairness' in journalism? I thought you were still using 'objectivity' as a rule.
To avoid being looted, just replace the CCTV with gatling gun
This would not have happened 30 years ago
Soldiers won't fix economic inequalities in SA
They need to take justice into their own hands. It is absolutely the right thing to do.
This looks like the future of America
Parts of America already looks like this
IF THE GOVERNMENT CAN NOT PROTECT, then the people MUST TAKE THE MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS!
ANC model of failed country.
Very soon this will happen in Europe😍
i dont think so, who will riot? Europe has excellent welfare and social security, also there is no large population in europe that was oppressed by europeans in the past, so there is no base for raceriots like in the US. But please explain what you think is going to happen, i might have missed something.
He hates European culture and civilization.
@@september2587 what a pleasant gentleman.
South Africa is a peace country but why ....
Are _most_ rioters really that loyal to Zuma, or is this simply opportunism by an impoverished, desperate, and angry people?
It's beyond poverty now. Most looters are using it as an opportunity for criminality. The poor have to walk many kilometres to reach the stores and many kilometres back to their homes with whatever they managed to gather. A lot of the looters have cars and are stealing luxury goods.
Thats exactly what it is sir
I suspect Karma picked out specific countried where she could practice her work more effectively through such grouping together of her clients. Bad karma recipients can then dispense karma on each other en masse. If it is not karma, then it is just people being how people are when they gt swept up in masses - pathetic.
@@thatothobejane4674 You seem to be omniscient to know all the data of the looters🤔
@@thatothobejane4674 Agreed. Very experienced looters expanding from tenders to shops. It was a looting bubble on the Loot Exchange...
And this time the poor are not shafted by Apartheid, but by their bretheren. And one can walk the chain up to government, apartheid and other things. But someones instigated and someones agreed, fell for it or abused it. That bit is on each individual. I trust everyone will learn something, because, next week, when there is no food or medicine, or petrol, the people will rember who rocked up at home last week with a 'new fridge, microwave and clothes'.
Praying for all Africans .. sending my heart and angel to always be with them ♥️
Yes this is not only about Zuma, this chaos has been in the making for years because of economic and social conditions and the government not doing much about it.
Zuma is the excuse
Anc has stolen trillions...destroyed so many institution handed to them on a silver platter in 1994. Taken away all free trade colleges...where is that money?that is how the whites built their middle class
Time for political correctness to die.
This is the result of African management ...look no further than the rest of Africa for more examples...leaders lavish lifestyles while 90%in abject poverty
It is the story of African leaders for over 80 years now
If Africans don't want to accept it...this what we have seen will just continue
I wish feelings would be put aside
Great athletes, good at music...fantastic warriors...piss poor large scale managers of anything.
I bet the preppers were ready and are securely observing the events from their armed homes.
Couldn't help noticing the DIY enthusiasts there!
An inability to defer gratification.
@anc Take a wild guess. I know you have the inherent capacity to get it right despite the fact that “There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically.”
I feel sad for the lions, who will all be eaten by years end.
Meh, live by the tooth, die by the tooth.
Business owners across the world feel this 😂
Govt. to businesses: how much did you lose?
Businesses: 999.99 billion USD only.
That amount is not even close to what the South African government has looted. Meaning money that's been lost to corrupt in South Africa
Why are comments being deleted?
Fact: Pandemic prevention measures ended up affecting more people than the pandemic.
It's 2500 Soldiers not 25000!
Since apartheid ended the situation got worse and worse
I don't see looting. I see peaceful protests.
Lmfao remember they have insurance
Don't expect honest report, all this media outsource have an agenda
Micheal I don’t see you in this country? The police have had people from the communities help them bc they ran out of ammo I suggest you come here then see how it is
Idk if you're being sarcastic or something but around 72 people have died yeah.
Insurance companies dont cover against riots. Many business will go bankrupt. What is the point of starting a business and working hard in this country, politicians do not care about those who work and feed the country
To all my educated brothers and sisters in South Africa. The international community feels your heartache and pain during this trying time. Similar to certain other African countries, we could see the direction South Africa was heading in and expected the degradation to take years - from what the world has just witnessed in less than a week - it's not going to take that long. It was a difficult decision to leave such a beautiful country when we did but we were regarded as second class citizens in a country our forefathers helped to build. I urge you, if at all possible, use your skills to get you and your families out of Africa as soon as you can - don't let yourself or your family members become victims of murder, rape or robbery. There are countries that could use your skills. I know it's easier said than done, but if COVID restrictions ease and you can - GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN - it's not easy, but you can build a new, safer life for your family in another country.
This will happen to every civilization at some stage it's just inevitable