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  1. RedViking

    The Preppers Thread

    With all the massive warnings, civil unrest and civil war coming just now and everyone busy preparing for the recession and riots and house grabs, shopping centers to be burned down, food shortages, toilet paper shortages, loadshedding return, water crisis, petrol shortages incoming, post...
  3. RedViking

    Are you confident the military can help protect citizens during another riot? (Poll)

    With unrest and riots looming at our doorsteps, are you confident the military can protect us citizens?
  4. Sultan Mustafa

    Cash/Guns/Ammo/Comms: SA on the verge of another insurrection, security experts warn

    https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-07-07-cash-guns-ammo-comms-sa-on-the-verge-of-another-insurrection-security-experts-warn/
  5. Jan

    Massmart releases annual results - Game trading loss increases to over R1 billion

    Game drags down Makro with R1 billion loss Massmart has released its 2021 financial results for the 52 weeks ended 25 December 2021, reporting a R2.20 billion net loss. This is 25.7% worse than the R1.75 billion loss the company reported last year.
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  6. Jan

    Mustek reveals how tech manufacturers were hit by Covid-19 disruptions and July riots

    South African tech manufacturers hammered by Covid-19 and July riots Several tech manufacturers in South Africa were hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, with critical elements such as shipping taking almost twice as long as it did pre-pandemic. And if that wasn't...
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  7. Jan

    Report from expert panel into July 2021 riots released

    South Africa's 2021 riots were organised on WhatsApp — and could have been stopped There was a significant intelligence failure to anticipate, prevent or disrupt the planned and orchestrated violence that broke out in KwaZulu-Natal during July 2021. This is according to a report prepared by an...
  8. Jan

    Massmart sales weakened by alcohol bans, riots, chip shortage

    Massmart sales wrecked by riots and alcohol bans Makro and Game owner Massmart has reported that its general merchandise sales, its second-largest sales category, was 9.7% lower in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020. “Sales were impacted by various factors...
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  9. Jan

    Ellies hammered after warning of 24.6% revenue decline

    Ellies hammerblow Ellies has alerted shareholders that it expects to report a revenue decline of 24.6% for the period between May and October 2021. "The general trading environment in this period has remained constrained in the wake of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the unrest and related...
  10. Jan

    Damage to Stor-Age Waterfall claimed from Sasria - R83 million plus VAT

    Devastating financial damage caused by storage unit looting revealed Stor-Age announced in a trading update on Tuesday that approximately 60% of the total 15,100m² of storage space at its facility in Hillcrest suffered significant structural damage. "These buildings require full demolition and...
  11. Jan

    Sabric warns that some of R119 million in cash stolen during July riots will be used to fund crime and corruption

    R119 million in cash stolen during July riots — and not all of it was dye-stained Not all of the cash stolen during the July riots are dye-stained and millions in unsoiled notes will be injected back into the economy, and fund organised crime. This is the dire warning from the CEO of the South...
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  12. Jan

    Damage caused by rioters in one table

    Tremendous damage caused by looting shown in one table Thousands of businesses and numerous government departments are still counting the costs of the damage caused by rampant looting and violence in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng earlier this month. Malls, shopping centres, supermarkets...
  13. Jan

    Toyota uncertain if it can continue to invest in KZN and South Africa

    Toyota threatens to leave Durban Toyota is concerned about the violence and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and said it is not certain if it can continue to invest in the province or the country. Netwerk24 reported that Toshimitsu Imai, Toyota’s regional officer for Africa, wrote to eThekwini Mayor...
  14. Vorastra

    US protests/riots 2020

    This will be a catch-all thread for anything related to the current protests/riots in the US. Let's start. Warning: Graphical. Black man stabbed in the back by a 43yo white protester in Portland. He was then apprehended by fellow protesters and has been arrested by police...
  15. RedViking

    Vehicle torched in ongoing Richards Bay violence

    https://zululandobserver.co.za/197475/watch-vehicle-torched-ongoing-richards-bay-violence/ PARTS of Richards Bay CBD remain on lockdown amid ongoing protest action which erupted on Friday and continued yesterday (Monday) and today. There is a heavy police presence in the Taxi City vicinity...
  16. I

    Mooiplaas protesters stone police

    http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/mooiplaas-protesters-stone-police-1.1584751
  17. LazyLion

    Diepsloot Xenophobic Riots over Double Murder

    Two men have been killed in an alleged robbery in Diepsloot, Gauteng police said on Monday. Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said two men, believed to be Zimbabwean nationals, arrived at a shop owned by a Somali national about 6pm on Sunday. "The Somali said the men tried to rob him at his shop so...
  18. LazyLion

    Riots in Stockholm

    Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish capital. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says seven people were briefly...
  19. LazyLion

    Shock over 'respectable' lives behind masks of UK rioters

    http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/08/11/ukriots.accused/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 There is definitely some kind of pack or herd mentality in operation behind these rioters, not to mention just people who are bored with their lives and looking for a bit of rebellion.
  20. W

    Bapsfontein sinkhole riots

    28 December 2010 BBC News Residents of a shanty town in South Africa have clashed with police over attempts to relocate them after huge sinkholes began to appear nearby. Hundreds of those living in Bapsfontein, near Pretoria, burned tyres and threw stones, as police fired tear gas and...
  21. G

    South Africans fight with Police.

    Oh no. After such a nice evening in Durban, not long after the match between Germany and Australia (4:0 Germany), the South African police and a number of locals (African) declared war on each other. Rubber bullets and teargas was used. It will be interesting to see how the South Africans will...
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