Police have fanned out across several neighborhoods in Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria, as sporadic looting and arson attacks entered a third day in South Africa.
South Africa's president condemned days of widespread looting and arson attacks on foreign-owned businesses across Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria, calling the violence"totally unacceptable."
Police have arrested more than 100 people in five areas impacted by the violence. Many gutted, emptied shops remained closed as shop owners, many of them foreign, feared to return to their property. In Alexandra, a township in Johannesburg which was in lockdown on Tuesday after a spate of attacks in the morning, some foreigners had returned to their shops to assess the damage.
Others whose shops had survived the night were packing their belongings and leaving the area by morning. The government would only consider calling on the army in Gauteng if the police said they were not able to diffuse the situation, he said.
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