JOHANNESBURG: South African car dealership owner Yunus Salajee, 55, standing in front of his burned cars in Johannesburg suburb on Wednesday — AFP JOHANNESBURG, Sept 04 (AP): South Africa's president condemned days of widespread looting and arson attacks on foreign-owned businesses across Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria, calling the violence "totally unacceptable."
"We are a country that is completely committed against xenophobia," President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a video statement published on Twitter Tuesday. "We do not allow and cannot tolerate attacks on people from other African countries."
Police fanned out across neighborhoods in Johannesburg and Pretoria as the violence extended into a third day in South Africa.
Police have arrested more than 100 people in five areas impacted by the violence. Many gutted, emptied shops remained closed as shop owners, many of them foreign, feared to return to their property.
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