The rate at which places and homes were looted shot through tin roofs in South Africa during the coronavirus lockdown with looters making off with about anything that could be ripped off or cut down and carted off.
Kliptown, a train station in Johannesburg township of Soweto, looks like a place Nigerian scrap metal scavengers have raided during the current coronavirus lockdown.
Thieves have plundered anything and everything from cables and handrails to bricks and doors. Not even the train station’s roofs were spared.
Well, a few things were spared; items too heavy to lift.
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) reports more than 80 percent of the country’s train stations have been vandalized.
A Transport Minister has blamed the looting on the “collapse of security” but vowed to crack down on the problem with the help of a scheme to local recruits as guards backed by police.