Small business owners tell MPs of their losses from July's wave of looting

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“It's very difficult, my accounts are now empty,” says Tembisa businessman Masedi Malatji, whose shop was looted during last month's wave of unrest.

“It's very difficult, my accounts are now empty,” says Tembisa businessman Masedi Malatji, whose shop was looted during last month's wave of unrest.

“It was during the night, around 8pm, I received a call from another business partner ... I went to the shop to try to protect it, but when I got here I found that my shop was already looted,” he told SowetanLIVE's sister publication TimesLIVE.“There were many people. They looted Cambridge [shopping centre in Mayibuye] for four days. There were no police around to stop that,” he said.

 

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