It was eight days of unprecedented looting and arson, which started on the night of 8 July 2021. Once the smoke subsided, at least 281 dead bodies counted and the trauma settled, the South African fiscus R50-billion poorer and the event was named as one...
According to testimony given by KZN police chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi at the South African Human Rights Commission probe into the unrest, 281 people died in the province as a result of the unrest. The vast majority of these deaths were looters, crushed in stampedes while trying to steal goods, or killed by other looters while fighting over stolen goods.
Soldiers survey vandalised ATMs at Diepkloof Square, Soweto, Johannesburg, 13 July 2021. Members of the South African National Defence Force were deployed around Gauteng and Kwa Zulu Natal after violent protests erupted resulting in the deaths of several people and looting of shops. A taxi driver shoots his 9mm pistol into the air to chase nearby looters away from a mall after looting continued in the area, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14 July 2021. Local taxi bosses and drivers have started to enforce their own law after police forces could not stop the ongoing looting of the mall in the East of Johannesburg.
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