Posted on 07/16/2021 9:46:43 AM PDT by BeauBo
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said a week-long spree of violence and pillaging that has shocked South Africa had been "planned" and vowed to hunt down those responsible, as the death toll from the unrest reached 212.
"It is quite clear that all these incidents of unrest and looting were instigated -- there were people who planned it and coordinated it," Ramaphosa said in a visit to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, the flarepoint for post-apartheid South Africa's worst crisis...
Shopping malls and warehouses have been ransacked in KZN and Johannesburg, stoking fears of shortages and inflicting a devastating blow to the an already battered economy...
The unrest followed protests triggered by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma, who was handed a 15-month jail term for snubbing a corruption investigation.
Zuma, whose home province is KZN, commands support among loyalists in the ruling African National Congress (ANC), who portray him as a champion of the poor...
In scenes that have stunned the nation, looters have casually plundered stores, pharmacies and in one case a blood bank, hauling away goods as police stood by, seemingly powerless to act...
On Wednesday, the government called out the armed forces reserves to meet a new target of deploying 25,000 troops -- 10 times the number that it initially deployed and equal to about a third of active military personnel...
The unrest has spurred fears for supply chains, including fuel, food and medicine, at a time when South Africa is struggling with a vicious Covid-19 pandemic.
The country has the highest tally of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Africa, recording more than 2.2 million infections and nearly 66,000 deaths. In the past 24 hours, the toll has risen by 16,400 cases, of which 377 were fatal.
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Not only were Indian stores pillaged, but over 200 shopping malls. In addition to stores, critical infrastructure was systematically destroyed, in an apparent deliberate political strategy, by the Jacob Zuma faction of the African National Congress (ANC) Party.
This is the worst it has been in South Africa.
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Which are the before pictures and which are the after ?
Where’s the picture of the guy in the Viking Hat?
Sad, South Africa was one of the richest parts of Africa.
No joke. One store was left untouched.
Can you guess what? 🤣
https://vid8.poal.co/user/The_Gem/e30E823?autoplay=off#
Also Marxist savages: "Hey, how come there's no more stuff?"
“Which are the before pictures and which are the after?”
South Africa is a thoroughly developed, modern Country; but radical politics (with extreme racial agitation) and crime are dragging it down, just as they did in Detroit or are doing in San Francisco.
But it is serious crisis level in South Africa now.
Will Biden be sending Food for them to steal ?
“Where’s the picture of the guy in the Viking Hat?”
best comment.
Hundreds of killings and widespread destruction in South Africa is called “unrest” while the people walking through the Capitol between the velvet ropes is a “riot” or even an “insurrection”. The propaganda media is so disgusting.
Any nation that allows itself to be de-stabilized from within by foreign sponsors (whether state actors or not) is not fit to survive.
That’s the cold hard truth.
West Rand is under threat now.
Everything is planned, organized and funded.
They can have my two jabs.
Isn’t this Portland?
And how many were murdered again over the Independence Day weekend in the U.S.?
This is one of the reasons those “weapons of war” need to be in the hands of civilians.
blm and antifa are practicing for a similar end run here.
HAAAAAAAAAA!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
All planned and sponsored by, filthy rich, anti-Capitalist leftists.
NO ONE puts the “filthy” in Filthy Rich , as LEFTISTS DO!!!! NO Right Wingers come close!!!!
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