Izingolweni business owners operate in fear following 3 days of protests
Business owners in Izingolweni on the south coast are pleading for more law enforcement after looters targeted shops during service delivery protests.
They say they have lost millions of rands to mass looting. Demonstrators, on Wednesday, broke into multiple stores in the CBD.
Police confirmed the arrests of 20 people that night, adding there were more yesterday. Karin Smith manages the Izingolweni Shopping Centre.
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She says only a handful of police had arrived to deal with hundreds of protestors on Wednesday.
"They broke the main doors to the shopping centre and looting every single store from the post office to the ATM, to the little kiosk that sells cellphones. There is absolutely nothing left."
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Smith says the owners and staff are scared. "Most of them are not insured for the goods. We absolutely terrified, not only for our tenants but for my guard's lives, they have been threatened."
Izingolweni's been a no-go-zone for three days now.
