Volunteers and mall staff swept trash and debris into neat piles at Diepkloof Square on Wednesday almost as if they were raking leaves in a garden. Outside the Nedbank branch, the legs of a mannequin hung out of an opened safe.
The insides of ATMs Nedbank, Standard Bank, FNB had been disembowelled. Every store had been ransacked, including well-known retailers like Pep, Pick n Pay Liquor, McDonald’s, Mr Price, Ackermans, Food Lover’s Market and Rage, and more obscure stores that left you guessing as to what was once on the shelves.
Lerato Motshoeneng, the local Community Policing Forum secretary, said, ‘As the community, we must stand together and fix this mess’. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla / Daily Maverick)