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Pietermaritzburg was a dump long before the riots The effects of the past week’s unrest and destruction of property will have dire consequences for the KwaZulu-Natal capital, where residents have watched for years how their city has been ruined 19 July 2021 - 07:56 By Naledi Sikhakhane A waste picker at the New England Road landfill site in Pietermaritzburg. File photo. Image: Sandile Ndlovu
Rubbish sits in piles on Masukwana Street in central Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, as a group of concerned residents rummage to find more plastic bags in which to put the waste they have gathered. Theirs is a clean-up operation to clear the detritus left by the riots that morphed from a campaign to free incarcerated former president Jacob Zuma into the wholesale destruction of several key establishments by criminals.
“I saw them with my own eyes. They pushed the trolleys and put everything they could in them.”
A fireman who was at the scene attending to the fire at the Brookside Mall said on Monday morning that while firefighters battled the blaze, people were emptying the shelves.
He said that at the corners of Masukwana and Jabu Ndlovu streets, five shops were set alight.
At the corners of Hoosen Haffejee and Masukwana Streets, another shop was set alight. He added that Masukwana Street is totally off limits.
“It is totally barricaded.”
The firefighter added that houses were also set alight at Cinderella Park.