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A group of people looted a shop in Durban’s CBD on Friday afternoon after police warned businesses to close as protesters marched through the city centre, according to the CCTV footage released by the shop owner.
The CCTV footage recorded the intcident at exactly ten past four on Friday, when several people were captured running away with two-plate stoves, heaters, lights, a computer screen, a speed point and coins that were by the paying till.
Around 3pm on Friday afternoon, police drove around Durban’s CBD, warning businesses to close their shops as a group of people started marching along Bertha Mkhize Street and Grey Street.
A three-minute video from CCTV footage released by the shop owner showed a group of approximately 50 people looting the shop. The first video showed the events unfolding inside the shop, and the second video showed the exterior of the shop on Grey Street.
One of the shop staff was seen standing outside before the looting, pleading with protesters not to enter the shop. He then moved away upon being threatened with sticks by the protesters.
“There is no money here; they took it,” the people in the footage can be heard shouting as they went inside the shop and found only coins by the teller. The footage appears to show only coins near the till; no banknotes are visible.
Two people struggled over the cash register; another person took the speed point, and the others took the two computer screens that were by the till.
As most people targeted the till area, some went inside the shop to grab baskets, small lights, a two-plate stove, and whatever else they could find.
The video also shows a man in a blue shirt shouting “Police! Police! Police!,” as he directed the crowd out of the shop.
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