David A. Larsen
DL5B_20210724_0905
#ZumaUnrest - The Sufferers
In the aftermath of #ZumaUnrest, many rural towns in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, were devastated. Shops, grocery stores, hardware stores, mobile phone shops and other retailers were looted and often burned down and ATM machines were plundered for their cash. Testimonies of locals were that armed police stood by as crowds rampaged down the main street of rural towns. While many shop owners were insured, some, particularly foreigners, were not. For them, businesses that took decades of hard labour to build up were lost in just hours. More than 12 days after the looting started in the towns of New Hanover, Dalton and Wartburg north of Pietermaritzburg, the only food available to the surrounding population were mobile street vendours bringing in food from other towns. That situation is unlikely to change for many weeks.
In Wartburg the Spar was ransacked and ATM machines were pulled out of the wall and the cash stolen. It was reported that police looked on and did nothing while the banking machines were plundered.
DL5B_20210724_0905
#ZumaUnrest - The Sufferers
In the aftermath of #ZumaUnrest, many rural towns in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, were devastated. Shops, grocery stores, hardware stores, mobile phone shops and other retailers were looted and often burned down and ATM machines were plundered for their cash. Testimonies of locals were that armed police stood by as crowds rampaged down the main street of rural towns. While many shop owners were insured, some, particularly foreigners, were not. For them, businesses that took decades of hard labour to build up were lost in just hours. More than 12 days after the looting started in the towns of New Hanover, Dalton and Wartburg north of Pietermaritzburg, the only food available to the surrounding population were mobile street vendours bringing in food from other towns. That situation is unlikely to change for many weeks.
In Wartburg the Spar was ransacked and ATM machines were pulled out of the wall and the cash stolen. It was reported that police looked on and did nothing while the banking machines were plundered.