South African president condemns acts of violence targeting foreign-owned businesses as police arrest 90 amid wave of unrest in several cities
A riot police officer throws a teargas canister as looters make off with goods from a store in Germiston, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, September 3, 2019.
Five deaths — most of them South Africans — have been reported, police said, adding that 189 people had been arrested. Rocks, bricks and rubber bullets lay strewn across the empty streets of Alexandra after mobs plundered the township overnight, burning and looting shops in their path. More than 90 people were arrested on Monday in connection with the violence and looting of shops in Johannesburg and surrounding areas, the government said.
Such violence breaks out sporadically in South Africa where many locals blame immigrants for high unemployment, particularly in manual labour.
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