4,000 loot Rustenburg shopping centre

[LazyLion]

JOHANNESBURG – Police have confirmed an entire shopping centre next to Impala Platinum’s number 9 shaft in Rustenburg was looted and several houses and a community hall torched between Sunday night and the early hours of this morning.

In a remarkable case of public disorder, around 4,000 people started gathering near the shopping centre at midnight shortly after the nearby hall was set alight, police say.

It’s still unclear who the looters are but it’s suspected the incident is linked to the lengthy strike by members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu).

The strike, which has entered its third month, has left many mineworkers in the platinum sector without food or any other income.

The police’s Thulani Ngubane says they can only confirm one arrest so far which was related to the arson case.

He says the incident was a culmination of violence which started yesterday afternoon.

“There’s a continuous investigation we’re embarking on to make sure we bring the perpetrators to book,” he adds.

The police are not yet able to say how much money was lost by businesses at the shopping centre.

(Edited by Craig Wynn)

http://ewn.co.za/2014/04/28/4000-loot-Rustenburg-shopping-centre

 

[Mila]

Shjo. I hope the shopping centre lay a charge against the union.

 

[Arthur]

Barbarians.

 

[LazyLion]

Shjo. I hope the shopping centre lay a charge against the union.

Ja, at least they have a court precedent for it.

 

[Shake&Bake]

4000 - that's some serious numbers that "just got together".
Concerning that they could organise such a large crowd to "work in unison".

 

[koeksGHT]

Well considering the situation, food/money is required and stealing it is the only way to survive.

Only their own fault.

 

[Flanders]

2nd comment on the article:

Ke tlala. Freedom has long arrived in NW. Now focus on WC.

Suffer, fools.

 

[crackersa]

Looter = Theives

 

[Albereth]

Clearly the cops in that part of the world are too lenient.

 

[Albereth]

Looter = Theives

So sayeth Helens.

 

[SSung]

BEE shopping.

 

[bex.cpt]

A hungry man is a angry man.

 

[Albereth]

A hungry man is a angry man.

Which part of the TV do you eat?

 

[Necuno]

You got it all wrong: 4 000 turns up for handouts

http://ewn.co.za/2014/04/28/4000-loot-Rustenburg-shopping-centre

 

[marine1]

This just shows the marikana situation. Now you want to tell me the cops acted wrongly?

 

[R13...]

This just shows the marikana situation. Now you want to tell me the cops acted wrongly?

Evidence has been led that the police were wrong to shoot some of the miners at Marikana. Some of the people are alleged to have been shot while down and others shot while trying to flee. Policing is not about shoot first and ask questions last as you seem to firmly believe.

 

[thestaggy]

I suspect it was the striking miners and/or their families. Weren't they asking for public funds to survive a few weeks back?

 

[marine1]

Evidence has been led that the police were wrong to shoot some of the miners at Marikana. Some of the people are alleged to have been shot while down and others shot while trying to flee. Policing is not about shoot first and ask questions last as you seem to firmly believe.

Yes let's rather let 4000 of them burn a shopping centre down and let's let them go mad like a bunch of nut jobs and crash the economy .
Let's let them murder a cop and a security guard ........much better

 

[R13...]

Yes let's rather let 4000 of them burn a shopping centre down and let's let them go mad like a bunch of nut jobs and crash the economy .
Let's let them murder a cop and a security guard ........much better

No let's rather make sure our crime intelligence systems are functional and can stop these things before they happen. Why do we have crime and other intelligence who pay an army of informants supposedly living among the general populous but yet can't ever produce credible intelligence on anything.

 

[Albereth]

Evidence has been led that the police were wrong to shoot some of the miners at Marikana. Some of the people are alleged to have been shot while down and others shot while trying to flee. Policing is not about shoot first and ask questions last as you seem to firmly believe.

Nobody is aiming in a firefight. They are just shooting in the direction of the threat.

The next thing is that as soon as you realise that your muti hasn't made you invisible or bullet proof you'll figure that Dodge is not the place to be. Unfortunately bullets don't care for which way you may be facing when you have an epiphany.

Of course having being shot already doesn't require the further insult of being shot again. And again. What made the cops so rude? The way they over-reacted? You'd swear someone chopped up their friends. Oh, wait...