Alex business owners plead with govt for assistance following SA unrest

Shop owners who were victims of looting in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township are pleading with the government to assist them.

Many are uninsured and cannot afford to pay what’s needed to rebuild their businesses.

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has announced R2.3-billion has been set aside to help them.

But he didn’t say how applications would work and when this money will start trickling down.

Source: eNCA

In other news – SO SAD: Limpopo woman kidnapped while looking for lift at Sasol garage, gang raped for 19 days & dumped in Mpumalanga

A woman is traumatized after she was kidnapped and repeatedly raped over 19 days. The woman said her horrific ordeal started on 4 July, when she got a lift from three men she met at a filling station in Tzaneen, Limpopo.

She said she thought they would drop her off near her house but they kidnapped her and turned her into a s.e.x slave. The 26-year-old farmworker said she had earlier been shopping at Tzaneen Mall. Learn More