More than 1200 people have been arrested in the lawlessness that has raged in poor areas of two provinces, where a community radio station was ransacked and forced off the air Tuesday and some COVID-19 vaccination centres were closed, disrupting urgently needed inoculations.
Many of the deaths in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces occurred in chaotic stampedes as thousands of people stole food, electric appliances, liquor and clothing from stores, police Major General Mathapelo Peters said in a statement Tuesday night.
Death toll spirals in South Africa as desperation sets in
More than a thousand people have been arrested in the lawlessness that has raged since the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma.
Weakened by the lockdowns and culturally emaciated by progressive pap the weakest members of the global herd are falling to chaos.