'If you come looting, we will be shooting'- Racial tension flares up in Phoenix

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Fake news, vigilantism and a lack of any police presence have fuelled racial tensions in Phoenix, north of Durban, where at least 20 people were killed this week.

Indians were pitted against their African neighbours living in the informal settlements of Bhambayi, Zwelisha and Amaoti, sparking fears of a repeat of the orchestrated riots of

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We cant let indians do this our country will retaliate soon

Lol this people dont know how crazy are black people i cry for them

Amazing and the lies from people they have no shame might never get the chance to join the human race

Is it really racial, I really wonder? I stayed in Phoenix, never had a problem.

In all honesty - if you coming to destroy my home or my business and whether you Indian, black, white or green you would prob be f%*ked up. I don’t care. Don’t come and loot and cause destruction to what I’ve built over years of hard sweat and blood.

Racial tensions were fuelled by the random targeting of Africans, like the young woman who was taken out of her car and the car was set alight. She was not a looter. 2ndly, indiscriminate killing can't be justified. Citizen arrests should have been effected where there was crime.

Why is there racial tensions? Is that because ALL the looters were black? Funny how only blacks loot. It is a black crime

Africans were killed by Indians period.

Question 1:Which 'races' are involved here actually? Question 2: Are you allowed to protect yourself and your property if you are, for example indian, and being attacked and looted by coloured people? Will this be revered to as racism or self defence

You give credence to fake news. Was there a massacre? Please give us facts. Were the 20 killed by a group? Who organised this gang? Are all 20 black? Where are the bodies? Where are photos “on the ground”? Reporting like this belongs in IOL from Piet.. 10 babies stuff. Rubbish!

The real racists are driving the race narrative, media included to sell clicks. Disgusting what our journalism has come to, they're willing to compromise the safey of a society for money. Have you taken the initiative to find out who exactly was killed, by whom exactly and why?

Protection of your property, business and family is not racist. It is human nature. Those wishing to start a race war in SA are the racists in this case.

Please Main stream media are the biggest culprits of spreading fake news the last year and a half

It's not racial tension! It's criminals being confronted by law abiding citizens.

INDIAN MURDERS KILLED OUR PEOPLE ✊🏽✊🏽We Are Not Okay 💔

It's more like 'fake news racial tension'. The people living in the area has come out to protect their properties. That's all! If they are a majority ethnic group then that is so because of the past Apartheid regime.

No other race was killed but black

Reading these tweets gives me goosebumps. I can feel the tension between the two races. People, this is time to mourn those who lost their lives and give condolences to the immediate families. Let me express my hope that perpetrators will serve their time.

Funny (not) how the media continues to drive the race narrative. Why’s it race vs race and not criminal vs law abiding citizen defending his environment?

They is something about dis ' at least '.....Black Lives Matters

'20 black people were killed by the Indians', there you go I fixed it for you

As citizens we now constitution why should we expect the police who are corrupt to the core to uphold the rule of law we need to take responsibility of our actions

well the EFF solution to creating jobs is remove all Indians cos they racist and replace them with unemployed blacks They are targeting the NPA by creating a race war. . If thats not racial hatred then what is?

You news reporting is very biased. Speak to ALL people and present FACTs not delusions and pity me sob stories!!

Baboshwa Nini?

How is it fake news while we lost life at the main road? You think we're stupid! Some were burned alive while others were shot in close range😠😠😠😠. Worst part your president never calm the situation, he became a catalyst...

RACISM,say it!!!

Rubbish.......

So what happened at Phoenix didn't happen? Yes or No?

The blacks were acting like animals,breaking and trying to destroy anything in there path. The people protected there community from these thugs! So typical of a black in South Africa to play victim if there terror don't work... Yall angry blacks lost! Again!! We showed you

The 'massacre' has been exaggerated, there is no such. Voice messages, videos, tweets that are circulating are fake, created and purported by the instigators whose aim is create racial tension and deflect from the REAL cause.Looters in masses attempted to invade homes in Phoenix

Stop calling it 'racial tension' Else you'll are a part of it?

Africans killed by racist Indians in Phoenix

Black people who were killed were not looting. Those racist Indians in Phoenix have always wanted to kill black people and Cyril Ramaphosa not only gave them permission to do so he also commended them for vigilantism. PhoenixMassacre

So those Black people who were killed & Bheki Cele met communities of Bhambayi, Zwelisha and amaoti live on TV were fake news . White media is pathetic.

eNCA SPREADS RUBBISH… interviewing NIEHAUS…a radical traitor

Black people were killed

Nonsense only time we heard about tribalism was that fare of a FamilyMeeting

Criminals in phoenix are ruling and government is quite

To all saying only Black people died, indian people have also died. Adults and children. Stop pushing fake news. If you only got valid facts that only black people died, show your proof. Not other people's opinions, he said or she said. Put your facts on the table before assuming

What you mean Fake News?

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