Soweto residents go on a rampage, looting foreign-owned spaza shops

“At the moment it is not clear what started this. We are yet to determine the wide scale of the looting, but we have members on the ground monitoring the situation,” he said.

Residents in White City claimed the looting was the community’s way of showing its anger at the attack in police officers in Johannesburg’s CBD more than two weeks ago.

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