Crowds loot shops and businesses in South Africa, defying government calls for an end to a week of violence that has killed more than 70 people. The unrest follows protests after the jailing of fmr. President Zuma last week.
Shopping malls and warehouses have been ransacked or set ablaze in several cities, mostly in Zuma's home in KwaZulu-Natal province to the country's biggest city Johannesburg and surrounding Gauteng province..
South African police force suspected looters to lie down and roll in muddy water after apprehending them in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa on July 13.A Reuters photographer saw several shops being looted in the town of Hammersdale, Mpumalanga, on Wednesday. Local TV stations meanwhile showed more looting of shops in South Africa's largest township Soweto, and in the port city of Durban.
The United Nations in South Africa expressed concern that the violence was disrupting transport for workers and medical staff and causing shortages of food, medicine and other essential products.
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