Soweto lootings: No programmes in place to prevent future tension - Cormsa
15 August 2019
The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (Cormsa) says it is concerned about attacks on foreign nationals and economic migrants who own spaza shops in Soweto, Johannesburg.
On Thursday, the organisation was at the scene of one of the shops that residents looted and destroyed on Wednesday night.
The organisation said it was dangerous that the attacks were carried out in apparent revenge for attacks on police officers in the Johannesburg CBD. No one was above the law, it pointed out.
Police officers fled the city centre on August 1 after rocks were thrown at them as they tried to conduct raids in search of counterfeit goods.