We are living in fear, says Durban shop owner after store torched by mob
By Nkululeko Nene
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Durban - He narrowly escaped death when his shop was set alight, allegedly by a mob from the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), but Pakistani businessman Altaf Hussain is not giving up.
âIâm not going to run away. I will have to find ways to rebuild my business. I have nowhere to go,â he said after the incident on Monday.
Hussain has been running a cellphone and repair shop on Joe Slovo Street for the past two years.
Two other shops owned by foreign nationals were also torched and others were looted.
Foreign shop owners operating in Durban CBD live in fear after latest attack
By Thobeka Ngema
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Durban - FOREIGN-OWNED shops were looted and burnt allegedly by a crowd of illegal marchers in the Durban CBD yesterday morning.
EThekwini Fire Department Operations Division commander Melvin Ramlall confirmed the brigade attended to four incidents involving fire and reports of theft in the city between 8.30am and 11am.
“Three of the incidents occurred at formal shops or formal structures and one was at a vending stall outside Woolworths in Monty Naicker (Pine) Street; two happened in the Soldiers Way area and one in the Warwick area,” said Ramlall.