Various communities were still cleaning their streets and shopping centres on Tuesday, following almost a week of continuous unrest and violence in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
More than 215 people lost their lives and more than 2,550 were arrested during the disorder that unfolded in the country’s two most populous provinces. The damage is estimated to stretch into the billions and includes 161 malls and shopping centres with extensive damage, eight factories and 161 liquor outlets and distributors. According to the Banking Association SA (Basa) 1,400 ATMS and 300 bank branches and post offices were also attacked.
While police are investigating alleged instigators believed to have encouraged the violence, the map below shows a general picture of some of the worst-affected areas.
It shows the initial gatherings in Nkandla before Zuma was taken into custody, to the first reported incidents of violent protests during which a section of the N3 was barricaded. It was shortly thereafter that reports emerged from Johannesburg and Durban.
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