Ebrahim Essa | Durban There’s looting and there’s looting. The word “loot” also appears in the Hindi and Urdu languages and is used, quite often, to mean overpowering, overwhelming, robbing, destroying dignity and even raping.
Watching Julius Malema questioning proprietors of restaurants as to the ratio of local black people to foreign black people made me realise that there’s certainly another very important statistic that needs to be most urgently researched and checked out as a matter of national urgency to avoid a cliffhanger situation that can easily make the July looting seem like a silly joke.
And that is profiteering, especially as far as all basic food items are concerned.
“Basic” is no longer reserved just for bread, rice, maize, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, milk and onions, but…