LOOTING IMPACTS 1,000 CLOTHING STORES IN SOUTH AFRICA
July 1st, 2021
Widespread looting in South Africa’s two most populous provinces last week caused significant damage to around 1,000 clothing stores and has impacted sourcing as well as garment and textile manufacturing.
Days of rioting and looting sparked by the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma spread throughout KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, which includes Johannesburg, home to some 27 million people.
More than 800 stores were looted and 100 burnt, in the week July 12-16, according to the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA). More than 200 entire shopping ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.