The South African Police Service (SAPS) members have set upon Somali nationals’ shops in the coastal city of Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) after an eruption of violence saw several minibus taxis going up in flames on Wednesday.

The first scene of the violent chaos caught the public’s attention via a video posted on social media. It showed several taxis engulfed in flames during daylight on Durban Road.

The fiery disaster footage was soon followed by a report from a local radio station. It said the violent chaos was “an altercation between South African taxi drivers and Somalian shop owners.

“Police in Gqeberha and several other role-players are on scene at the taxi rank in Korsten where an altercation between taxi drivers and Somalian shop owners escalated. Several vehicles and a shop were set alight. This is a developing story image supplied,” the outlet said.

Another video that was shared on social media displayed what looked like Somali shop owners strolling down a road with heavy gun artillery.

With less than 24-hours since the carnage, SAPS officers headed for Somali-owned wholesale shops in Korsten with special mission guns in hands on Thursday.

A video has shown a large team of SAPS policemen raiding a building that resembles a wholesale shop before a man appeared to at the entrance to let the cops inside the property.

We can safely presume the location is where Somali shop owners could be hiding in safety from a possible attack from Gqeberha taxi drivers. Additionally, police could also be seen determined to arrest anyone who may be illegally possessing firearms as seen in the social media video.

Calm has since returned to the town although tensions remain.

Taxis on fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIw6MNZaQsg

Damn...violence everywhere

Bad

Say no to xenophobia

Damn

Like a scene from the movie, black hawk down .

ActionSA must win the next elections...I'm just gonna leave it at that.

E no concern naija..

SAPS special forces arrive on the scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMnlyHiyIk
Police Minister: "The law was broken and all firearms should be found"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoeLU9kqpGA

When are we going to have a relative peace in the world?

@TMKSouth

Big ups for reporting this here my man, but what's up with your countrymen and Xenophobia? Do they prefer white people to their own black brothers? Cos I don't see or hear them doing this to white folks, just their fellow Africans all the time. No disrespect intended, just a long-term observation.

SA hatred to foreigners is second to none....funny enough they turn to fight the wrong sect of folks and leave out the real demons milking em/denying em basic things to live. Dementially Re-tarded idiots

TMKsouth:
The South African Police Service (SAPS) members have set upon Somali nationals’ shops in the coastal city of Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) after an eruption of violence saw several minibus taxis going up in flames on Wednesday.

The first scene of the violent chaos caught the public’s attention via a video posted on social media. It showed several taxis engulfed in flames during daylight on Durban Road.

The fiery disaster footage was soon followed by a report from a local radio station. It said the violent chaos was “an altercation between South African taxi drivers and Somalian shop owners.

“Police in Gqeberha and several other role-players are on scene at the taxi rank in Korsten where an altercation between taxi drivers and Somalian shop owners escalated. Several vehicles and a shop were set alight. This is a developing story image supplied,” the outlet said.

Another video that was shared on social media displayed what looked like Somali shop owners strolling down a road with heavy gun artillery.

With less than 24-hours since the carnage, SAPS officers headed for Somali-owned wholesale shops in Korsten with special mission guns in hands on Thursday.

A video has shown a large team of SAPS policemen raiding a building that resembles a wholesale shop before a man appeared to at the entrance to let the cops inside the property.

We can safely presume the location is where Somali shop owners could be hiding in safety from a possible attack from Gqeberha taxi drivers. Additionally, police could also be seen determined to arrest anyone who may be illegally possessing firearms as seen in the social media video.

Calm has since returned to the town although tensions remain.

South Africans ll retaliate

Afriqan:
@TMKSouth

Big ups for reporting this here my man, but what's up with your countrymen and Xenophobia? Do they prefer white people to their own black brothers? Cos I don't see or hear them doing this to white folks, just their fellow Africans all the time. No disrespect intended, just a long-term observation.

These things happen in areas with serious socio-economic problems. That's why you won't hear of professionals or students from other African countries being caught up in all of this, same as with most of the whites and the upper black classes. As you may know taxi drivers and illegal migrants are usually at the lower levels of society.

If not for our useless leaders southern naija peeps are the most civilized Africans.

They forgot this are not the civilised southern naija peeps they can loot and bully this are terrorists by births
SA done enter one chance

South Africans love violence way too much.

RemoveKebab:
If not for our useless leaders southern naija peeps are the most civilized Africans.

They forgot this are not the civilised southern naija peeps they can loot and bully this are terrorists by births
SA done enter one chance

SA taxi drivers are also natural-born terrorists.

lol.. somalians that are terrorists.. them go kill south africans finish.. una think say na coward igbos make una dey kill for south africa anyhow because say them nor fit fight but only to chestbest ..
make una nor try those somalians ooh.. even americans nor fit defeat them when them invade their country.. na al qaeda blood them get...

Goodluck SA

TMKsouth:


These things happen in areas with serious socio-economic problems. That's why you won't hear of professionals or students from other African countries being caught up in all of this, same as with most of the whites and the upper black classes. As you may know taxi drivers and illegal migrants are usually at the lower levels of society.

Beautiful breakdown. We have a plethora of issues here as well, glad u were objective enough.

South Africa and violence be like IPOB and Unknown gun men.

South Africa is turning into something else

They've started again. In the last four years, I don't think there is a year when violence and riots did not happen in South Africa!

Usually I'd call south africans xénophobic but honestly these somalis are moving devils, cursed afro-asiatic bastards with terrorism in their blood....imagine stock-pilling arms in another man's country Even in other parts of the world these skinny nigger somalis act like they better than other africans when their country is a poster child for an african hellhole. Skinny goat fvckin nignogs.


Modified: hours after i made this statement, a British MP was stabbed by a Somali refugee kid.

TMKsouth:
Taxis on fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIw6MNZaQsg

Empiree, did you watch that video? .
Your religion is always followed by absurdity, evil, murder destruction. Everywhere you go, death always follows you. You have no place for peace. What a shame

LILTJAY:
lol.. somalians that are terrorists.. them go kill south africans finish.. una think say na coward igbos make una dey kill for south africa anyhow because say them nor fit fight but only to chestbest ..
make una nor try those somalians ooh.. even americans nor fit defeat them when them invade their country.. na al qaeda blood them get...

You are correct! The South Africans should wake up and smell the coffee

I hope they don't use this opportunity to loot and attack Nigeria businesses

Totilopussylick:
Damn

Like a scene from the movie, black hawk down .

but the movie itself is a reenactment of how the American soldiers were defeated by a rag tag militia men in Somalia so the movie was as close to reality as possible