Watch: Looters rampage foreign-owned shop in Witbank [video]

Just when we thought the looting had come to an end, Yusuf Abramjee posted a video on Twitter showing a large group of vandals rampaging through a foreign-owned shop in Witbank, Mpumalanga.

Looting latest: Activity shoots up in Witbank

The recent spike in xenophobic attacks has placed South Africa at odds with other countries in Africa. The violence we saw in Gauteng in the past two weeks resulted in large scale damages to property, vehicles and a total of 12 deaths, ten of which were South African citizens.

Law enforcement agencies in Gauteng have managed to maintain law and order in the areas we saw looting activity in. However, what the police did not count on was the spread of this activity in other provinces.

We saw, in the last few days, looting activity pick up in the Western Cape, where scores of looters were arrested for targeting foreign-owned spaza shops in Samora Machel.

In Mpumalanga, scores of looters rampaged through a foreign-owned shop in Witbank (eMalahleni), grabbing whatever it is they could get their hands on.

The video, that was posted by Abramjee, a well-renowned crime reporter, showed scenes that were reminiscent of the movie, World War Z.

The footage only covers a certain angle of the incident and we could only spot two police officers in the frame, who were powerless against the hundreds of looters that left the foreign-owned shop in complete disarray.

If anything, the owners of the shop did more than the police could in reacting to the looting. One of them could be seen pummeling a looter with an unknown object.

The scale of the damage you will see in the video below has yet to be quantified but we can estimate that it may run into the millions.

People reacting to the video were, shockingly, less perturbed by the violence they saw. Instead, most of them championed the looters, calling on foreign nationals to “leave the country.”

“I’m yet to hear someone telling me how many SAns [are] running spaza shops in Pakistan and Bangladesh,” one Twitter user said.

While no word has been received from the police, it can be surmised that no arrests have been made so far. You can watch the full video below.

Watch: Looters swarm in on foreign-owned shop

Foreign owned store in eMalahleni (Witbank) CBD looted today. @SAPoliceService @MpumalangaGov pic.twitter.com/Bu4J4LxnjC

— Yusuf Abramjee (@Abramjee) September 11, 2019