sOLDIERS IN THE STREETS

Today in Alexandra, a township close to Johannesburg, Police and SA National Defence Force (SANDF) were patrolling the streets and houses ​to recover some of the goods that had been stolen by the looters. ​Police also had to attend to a number of incidents where roads were blocked in certain areas of Alexandra. The violence started last week in Kwazulu-Natal and Gauteng when former president Jacob Zuma was jailed.
At least 212 people have died in the unrest, including some in shopping-center runaway, and more than 2,500 have been arrested across the two provinces.

Pictures Antonella Ragazzoni