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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 4 september 2019

South African police arrest 90 as unrest in cities continues

By KRISTA MAHR Gauteng Premier David
MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Makhura visited Alexandra
Associated Press with police officials and
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — called for calm, pleading
South Africa’s president with the community to re-
condemned days of wide- frain from the violence.
spread looting and arson Makhura said police had
attacks on foreign-owned the capacity to deal with
businesses across Johan- the unrest and would not
nesburg and the capital need any reinforcement
Pretoria, calling the vio- from the army, a concern
lence “totally unaccept- that has emerged in recent
able.” days. In July, the govern-
“We are a country that ment deployed armed
is completely commit- soldiers to assist police in
ted against xenophobia,” controlling gang-related
President Cyril Ramaphosa violence in Cape Town.
said in a video statement The government would
published on Twitter Tues- only consider calling on
day. “We do not allow and the army in Gauteng if the
cannot tolerate attacks on police said they were not
people from other African able to diffuse the situa-
countries.” tion, he said. “The job of
Police fanned out across A man runs away from teargas after making off with goods from a store in Germiston, east of the police is to police, and
neighborhoods in Johan- Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. we know that the job of the
nesburg and Pretoria as Associated Press army that is a very different
the violence extended into five people had died since In Alexandra, a township in business had been looted. job altogether. The army
a third day in South Africa. the the violence started on Johannesburg which was “The last time they took ev- comes in to shoot down at
Police have arrested more Sunday night. in lockdown on Tuesday af- erything in the shop, and the enemy,” said Makhura.
than 100 people in five ar- “There is no justification ter a spate of attacks in the now they repeated it,” “So far the police are doing
eas impacted by the vio- whatsoever for people who morning, some foreigners said Duale. “We are always well.” On Monday, African
lence. Many gutted, emp- have a sense that their jobs had returned to their shops afraid that it can start any- governments warned citi-
tied shops remained closed are being taken by people to assess the damage. time.” zens living in South Africa to
as shop owners, many of from foreign lands to at- Abdullahi Duale, a Somali Others whose shops had take safety precautions
them foreign, feared to re- tack them, to destroy prop- shop-owner whose store survived the night were and expressed frustration
turn to their property. erties, and actually to kill was looted in the early packing their belongings with latest wave of attacks
Police minister Bheki Cele them,” said Ramaphosa. hours of the morning, said and leaving the area by targeting foreign-owned
confirmed on Tuesday that “This must be stopped.” this was not the first time his morning. businesses in South Africa.q

Italy: 5-Stars’ activists OK deal for coalition of rivals

By GIADA ZAMPANO way for a second govern- Cabinet and coalition poli-
FRANCES D’EMILIO ment headed by Premier cies was “practically com-
Associated Press Giuseppe Conte. The first, plete.”
ROME (AP) — Activists a coalition of the 5-Stars Only about 115,000 peo-
from Italy’s populist 5-Star and Salvini’s anti-mi- ple were eligible to vote
Movement voted over- grant League, collapsed on the 5-Stars’ online plat-
whelmingly in an online last month when Salvini form, dubbed Rousseau —
ballot Tuesday to approve yanked his support in a compared with 10 million
a deal for a governing gamble for early elections Italians who cast votes for
coalition with the rival, from which he hoped to the 5-Stars in the March
mainstream Democrats emerge as premier himself. 2018 election that brought
that would thwart popu- It was unclear when Conte them into national power
lar right-wing leader Mat- might announce he has for the first time.
teo Salvini’s quest for early nailed down a Cabinet for “We were always seen as Leader of the 5-Star Movement, Luigi Di Maio, smiles as he
elections. the coalition. a peril, but we have now meets the media in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019.
The 5-Stars’ leader, Luigi Di A Democratic Party lead- shown to have at our core Associated Press
Maio, told reporters that er, Graziano Del Rio, told the Italians’ interests,” Di this is a revolutionary fact,” next government going
80% of those voting said reporters Tuesday evening Maio said. he said referring to the am- until elections are formally
“yes.” The result paves the that work to flesh out the “We can assure stability, bitious goal of keeping the due in 2023.q