They told EXPRESS their stores were vandalised on both Thursday and Friday nights.
An electric hardware store owner said, “I actually even want to pack up my business and move out of the area. This is barbaric behaviour on the side of these criminals and I am saddened that the police are not able to handle it,” he said.
Mr Tim Haynes shared the same sentiments. “If the unrest are about not wanting foreign nationals as they claim they are, why then do they attack South Africans as well?
“These attackers are hiding behind xenophobia to commit crime,” said Mr Haynes who employs a mixture of both South African citizens as well as foreign nationals.
A Congolese business owner said he was heartbroken to see how his fellow African brothers and sisters had lost respect for human life. “This is not xenophobia, this is hatred and criminality. The men break the windows and doors to the shops and their women come in and loot whatever they can take away,” said the man.
Stock was stolen from a clothing store along Jules Street. The discovery was made by the owners who are from Pakistan, this morning.
