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Africa-Press<\/a> – Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The representative of the Mozambican community in South Africa says that Mozambican nationals were involved in the wave of looting that lasted for about two weeks there. Gabriel Cha\u00faque says that there are still no concrete numbers, but that he will start soon visiting penitentiary establishments in search of better information.<\/p>\n

So far, Fernando Benez\u00e1rio Francisco Vilanculos, who died trying to loot goods from a freight container, is the only Mozambican involved in the riots to be publicly named.<\/p>\n

When this news was released, the representative of the Federation of Mozambican Communities in South Africa, Gabriel Cha\u00faque said that \u201cthere may be other Mozambicans involved, not least because those who conveyed the information about Fernando\u2019s death were with him in the assault\u201d.<\/p>\n

What was just a suspicion, is now a certainty \u2013 many more Mozambicans were involved. \u201cUnfortunately, we still don\u2019t know how many are actually in jail and how many are dead, but there are more involved,\u201d Cha\u00faque said.<\/p>\n

In search of reliable numbers, the Federation of Mozambican Communities in South Africa will in the next few days start visiting the penal establishments to which the more than 3,000 detained during the rioting were sent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe maintain contacts with the authorities in the jurisdictions of Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal and Johannesburg. We are forming a team to visit all the sites to which those arrested for vandalism and looting were sent. Then we will have concrete figures,\u201d the president of the Federation of Mozambican Communities in South Africa said.<\/p>\n

Pending the campaign to identify detainees, the South African authorities are concentrating on recovering the goods looted.<\/p>\n

For this reason, Gabriel Cha\u00faque warns those carrying freight between the two countries not to transport suspicious goods, because they may be looted goods being sent home by compatriots.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake sure that everything you transport has a receipt, because you might come up against a roadblock, and your trip would end there,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Within two weeks, the riots, which began in protest at the arrest of disgraced former president Jacob Zuma, resulted in the vandalisation and looting of more than 200 shopping centres in Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal and Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

On the day he announced the end of the violence, President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa guaranteed that all those involved would be held accountable, saying: \u201cWe will take action to protect every person in this country against the threat of violence, intimidation, theft and looting.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the South African authorities, a total of 276 people died during the rampage, which started on 21 July and left many South Africans without access to basic consumer goods.<\/p>\n

The South African government, and stakeholders including supermarkets, factories, warehouses, small businesses and even schools, continue to assess the millions of rands-worth of damages and the delivery of economic aid to those affected.<\/p>\n

The outbreak of violence is said in some quarters to have been fuelled by pre-existing social problems such as inequality, unemployment, high crime levels and poor management of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

By<\/b><\/p>\n

Milcon Chichume<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. The representative of the Mozambican community in South Africa says that Mozambican nationals were involved in the wave of looting that lasted for about two weeks there. Gabriel Cha\u00faque says that there are still no concrete numbers, but that he will start soon visiting penitentiary establishments in search of better information. 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