Mooi River protest damage estimated at R100m
KwaZulu-Natal MECs have been assessing the damage after 28 trucks were torched in Mooi River this past weekend.
Six shops were looted in the town.
Economic Development's Ravi Pillay says the cost of the damage has climbed to an estimated R100 million.
"We won't allow those who want to vulgarise the economic transformation, those who want to reduce the economic transformation by looting. It is not in the interest of for the hundreds of thousands of young people who want us to create job opportunities.
Community Safety MEC Peggy Nkonyeni warns investors are going to lose confidence in the province. "We don't want to be known as a province that is having a lot of people that are perpetrating violence so we are really persuading our people to be calm."Conservative estimates are that the damage to private and public property is at approximately R100 million, however the information is still being collated. #KZNShutdown pic.twitter.com/iUHAytmP9p
— KZN Provincial Gov (@kzngov) July 11, 2021
Several trucks were set alight as part of protests against the incarceration of former President Jacob Zuma. #KZNShutdown
— KZN Provincial Gov (@kzngov) July 11, 2021
Police presence has been heightened at all hotspots. pic.twitter.com/RkOreIWe0q
