Police are on alert in Jeppestown after shops are looted
Gauteng police say four shops and a pre-school were looted on Sunday night, but it is not clear if they are foreign owned
Shops, allegedly foreign-owned, were looted in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, on Sunday night, in possible xenophobic violence, the city’s member of the mayoral committee for safety, Michael Sun, said. "The Johannesburg metro police department is on high alert and is working closely with the SAPS (South African Police Service) in containing any possible xenophobic attacks or related crime, and we have metro police officers on the ground feeding information back to the nerve centre, ready to deploy officers 24 hours a day," Sun said on Monday. He said the city, as part of the Gauteng provincial joint operation centre, was also working with SAPS and other law-enforcement agencies to develop strategies and action plans to deal with xenophobic situations. Gauteng police spokesperson Brig Mathapelo Peters confirmed that four shops and a pre-school had been looted on Sunday night, but it was not clear if they were foreign owned. A van was also torched. "We are not saying the shops are foreign ...
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