Full story of the South Africa Zuma riots: 72 death toll and the thrown baby
The South Africa Zuma riots came after the arrest and jailing of Zuma when his die-hard supporters blocked the major roads the economic arteries of the nation while demanding the release of their political hero.
The South Africa Zuma riots came after the arrest and jailing of Zuma when his die-hard supporters blocked the major roads the economic arteries of the nation while demanding the release of their political hero.
You will recall that Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court after failing to appear before a corruption inquiry earlier this year.
The judge, a female, ordered the former president to hand himself in within five days. She also stated that If he fails to do so, police will be ordered to arrest him and ensure he is “delivered to a correctional centre.”
Notably, aggrieved pro-Zuma, have now turned into rampant looting and riots, to become the worst violence in the country since the end of apartheid in 1994. This has led to the death of over 72 South Africans.
More so, in a viral video recorded by BBC, a mother was forced to throw her child from a building in Durban that was on fire after ground-floor shops were looted.
More than 200 shopping malls was looted on Monday afternoon, Bloomberg news agency quoted the chief executive officer of Business Leadership South Africa, Busisiwe Mavuso, as saying.
Several shopping centres in Soweto – South Africa’s largest township which was once home to Nelson Mandela – have been completely ransacked, with ATMs broken into, restaurants, stores selling alcohol and clothing shops all left in tatters.
