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Police say about 15 people helped each other buy items valued at around R3,000 at a Shoprite Usave supermarket on Halt Road in Elsies River on Wednesday.
CAPE TOWN: Sporadic looting incidents continue to plague various parts of Cape Town as COVID-19’s confinement creates hunger and suffering among impoverished communities.
Police say about 15 people helped each other buy items valued at around R3,000 at a Shoprite Usave supermarket on Halt Road in Elsies River on Wednesday.
Four people were arrested and some assets were recovered.
She said officers also thwarted an attempt to break into a nearby closed butcher shop.
In Delft, looters broke into a supermarket and took R4,000 worth of food.
This follows three looting incidents in the same area on Tuesday, which resulted in five arrests.
Four people were caught in public violence in Philippi East after public order police prevented a crowd from looting a delivery truck.
On Tuesday, 13 people were arrested for looting in Macassar.
Meanwhile, the National Prosecutor’s Office said four people appeared Tuesday at Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court in connection with the looting of a truck carrying food packages on Monday.
Three other trucks carrying food were attacked the same day.
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