source: Xenowatch
actor1: Rioters (South Africa)
actor2: Police Forces of South Africa (1994-)
location: Gqeberha
notes: On 14 April 2020, about 40 foreign owned shops were looted in Veeplas and Soweto areas in Northern parts of Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape), displacing about 140 people. At some shops, hundreds of community members stopped the mob by gathering outside the shops. Police fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. One officer was injured when a rioter threw her with a stone. [size=no report]