Loading ...comment: I remember years ago they rioted against minority white rule and won, so who are they rioting against now? Majority black rule? Or simply global business rule? Problems from Globalization.
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South African taxi drivers, private security companies and ordinary civilians are stepping up toprotect their businesses and communities following days of rioting and looting that the authorities have failed to quell.
Private security contractors were deployed to guard filling stations and other key facilities in KwaZulu-Natal. With more than 100 mobile-phone towers destroyed by protesters, the nation’s telecommunications regulator issued a direct plea to communities to help guard communications infrastructure.
Some business groups have urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to give the police and army additional powers to end the violence, fearing that community and private militias will mete out their own form of justice.
While the government has deployed more than 2,500 soldiers to back up the police, it’s shied away from declaring a state of emergency — a measure the government resorted to to counter opposition to White-minority rule.
“The National Prosecuting Authority is putting together a team of special prosecutors who have been instructed to oppose bail for suspects associated with public violence and economic sabotage,”