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Article Highlights:
- It’s been a year since the incarceration of former President Jacob Zuma for defying a Constitutional Court order sparked unprecedented unrest in post-1994 South Africa.
- During this period, crowds ransacked several businesses and public infrastructure, mainly in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, causing damage amounting to billions of rands.
- Selvin Pillay, one of several business owners in Umkomaas, was visibly emotional as he detailed how 25 years of hard work building his furniture shop had gone up in smoke.
