Armed, mostly muslim foreigners mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia fight back with burning barricades against black South Africans looting their shops Durban CBD
Also: KwaMashu xenophobic rioting against Somalian shopkeepers; http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=1033852&sn=Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389
More shops looted and burnt in KwaMashu - SAPS KZN
Glynnis Breytenbach 13 April 2015
Police say rumours that two Somali people were killed in the area, are not true
More shops looted and burnt at KwaMashu area last night
Police had to work hard in a dangerous situation at KwaMashu area last night after foreign national shops were looted and some of them were burnt down. Some of the roads were completely blockaded with burning tyres and stones. Yesterday, 12 April 2015 from the afternoon up to late last night, a number of foreign national shops were looted by the community. Some of these shops were burnt down. Police reacted to those incidents and a case of public violence was opened. Police managed to arrest a total of 28 suspects for public violence, business robbery and for possession of unlicensed firearm and ammunition. All arrested suspects aged between 20 and 41 are due to appear in the Ntuzuma Magistrate's Court soon. The rumours that have circulated in the media, that two Somali people were killed in KwaMashu area, are not true.
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni strongly condemned such attacks and vowed that those involved will be arrested and charged accordingly. "More arrests are expected to be made regarding these attacks. We urged those who were injured during the attack to come forward and open the cases so that they will be investigated. Our Public Order Police will still monitor and patrol those affected areas including Umlazi, Isipingo and Chatsworth." Ends/
Statement issued by Major Thulani Zwane, SAPS KZN, April 13 2015
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=1033852&sn=Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389&utm_source=Politicsweb+Daily+Headlines&utm_campaign=b378d0ef13-DHN_April_14_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a86f25db99-b378d0ef13-130023369
Also Four blacks torched to death by mob in Sondela Rustenburg 18 March 2015 - video used with claims that this represented victims of violence in Durban - but that was inaccurate said police:
RT @stezzo http://pic.twitter.com/QwAtv2uYDV
18Mar2015 Sondela Rustenburg: http://www.thetruthaboutsouthafrica.org/south-africa-warning-not-for-sensitive-viewers/
14 April 2015 at 14:50 by News24 - There has been chaos in the Durban CBD this afternoon after looters attempted to attack foreign-owned shops in Dr Pixley KaSeme Street. A large group of foreign nationals then gathered in protest.
Thousands of people, who appeared to be foreign nationals, erected a burning barricade in the middle of Mahatma Gandhi Road in Durban's Point district on Tuesday afternoon.
A section of the group were armed with pangas (machetes). Police later managed to douse the barricade with a water cannon.
Police have also retaliated with teargas and have fired rubber bullets to disperse them after stones were thrown at the officers.
It is alleged the group of foreign nationals started threatening South Africans in the CBD, in retaliation for the violence that has been directed at their countrymen in the past few weeks.
There was a large contingent of SAPS and metro police officers at the scene. Some appeared to be engaged in a mediation effort with what looked to be the leaders of the group.
Earlier, police fired bullets at a crowd of locals gathered in Dr Pixley KaSeme Street (West) Street after a stand-off between several Pakistani shop owners and locals.
The shop owners earlier managed to ward off looters, but the crowd of locals soon swelled and they started stoning passing cars and shop fronts.
The crowd then set fire to a parked car.Shortly afterwards, Public Order Policing units arrived to disperse the crowd, and opened fire on them with rubber bullets.
The police's riot squad were also on the scene.
http://www.ecr.co.za/post/foreigners-stage-stand-durban/
More shops looted and burnt in KwaMashu - SAPS KZN
Glynnis Breytenbach 13 April 2015
Police say rumours that two Somali people were killed in the area, are not true
More shops looted and burnt at KwaMashu area last night
Police had to work hard in a dangerous situation at KwaMashu area last night after foreign national shops were looted and some of them were burnt down. Some of the roads were completely blockaded with burning tyres and stones. Yesterday, 12 April 2015 from the afternoon up to late last night, a number of foreign national shops were looted by the community. Some of these shops were burnt down. Police reacted to those incidents and a case of public violence was opened. Police managed to arrest a total of 28 suspects for public violence, business robbery and for possession of unlicensed firearm and ammunition. All arrested suspects aged between 20 and 41 are due to appear in the Ntuzuma Magistrate's Court soon. The rumours that have circulated in the media, that two Somali people were killed in KwaMashu area, are not true.
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni strongly condemned such attacks and vowed that those involved will be arrested and charged accordingly. "More arrests are expected to be made regarding these attacks. We urged those who were injured during the attack to come forward and open the cases so that they will be investigated. Our Public Order Police will still monitor and patrol those affected areas including Umlazi, Isipingo and Chatsworth." Ends/
Statement issued by Major Thulani Zwane, SAPS KZN, April 13 2015
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=1033852&sn=Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389&utm_source=Politicsweb+Daily+Headlines&utm_campaign=b378d0ef13-DHN_April_14_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a86f25db99-b378d0ef13-130023369
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