04 August 2021 - 07:27
Members of a fire crew work at a warehouse burned during days of looting and unrest in Durban on July 17 2021.
Image: REUTERS/Rogan Ward
The unrest and violence that tore through parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in July cost the SA economy billions of rand in lost output and destroyed infrastructure, and is likely to happen again if the country’s structural inequality is not urgently addressed.
“The events of three weeks ago could be a precursor to something bigger,” acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said on Tuesday night.
Addressing an online briefing hosted by the Hellenic Italian and Portuguese Alliance of SA entitled “South Africa After the Unrest”, Ntshavheni said the country was one of the most unequal in the world.