The violence resumed this Monday, September 2, 2019. A hundred men armed with clubs, knives, and other dangerous objects came out of their homes to rob, ransack and loot Johannesburg stores run by foreigners from other countries African. These are the cause of the resurgence of the unemployment rate which reached the record with 29% according to these armed men. The South Africans accuse them of stealing their work.
Under the powerless eyes of the people, the country of Nelson Mandela, the one who wanted to create a rainbow nation, is again shaken by violence. Indeed, these riots began after the death of three people in the fire of a building in the capital before spreading to other parts of the city according to the South African police. At least 40 people were arrested by the police.
South Africa has long been considered a country where urban violence, crime, popular protests are very common. The protests also raised the ire of Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama who strongly denounced the ineffectiveness of the police. Indeed, many of his compatriots were victims of this inconvenience with the rampage of their stores.