‘Enough!’: SA residents act to stop looting, arson
ORDINARY South Africans, annoyed by the wanton looting and violence which has cost lives and damage running into billions of rands, have taken to the streets to defend shopping malls and private residences. In Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, the two provinces that have experience looting of shopping malls, ordinary residents, with the help of the community policing forums and the South African National Taxi Company, have decided that they could no longer leave the protection of the livelihoods to the law enforcement agencies, who were battling to cope. In Durban, residents, supported by private security guards manned roadblocks to protect their…