“The total number of people who have lost their lives since the beginning of these protests …has risen to 72,” police said in a statement late Tuesday. In Durban, aerial footage showed hundreds of people looting a large shopping centre and carting off huge boxes of goods. “The path of violence, of looting and anarchy, leads only to more violence and devastation,” President Ramaphosa said. In a statement, the party accused them of using “social media to express comments which appear to encourage and incite the violence and looting”. He started serving the jail term on Thursday after handing himself in to authorities as a deadline for his surrender loomed.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 14, 2021 23:19 UTC