IN THE MIND OF A LOOTER
‘AGGRESSIVE INSTIGATORS TORCHING TRUCKS OR SHOPS HAVE DIFFERENT INTENTIONS TO THOSE COMING AT THE END TO SCAVENGE FOR FOOD’
IT WAS like something from a horror movie – crowds of people storming shopping centres around KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, helping themselves to everything and anything they could get their hands on.
Trucks were torched, buildings stoned, roads barricaded and community members, armed with guns, sticks and batons, joined forces to resist wave after wave of looters on the rampage.
Protests are nothing new in South Africa – or the rest of the world. There have been at least 7 000 protests in 153 countries over the past decade,
