Zuma loyalists demanded his release from prison immediately. The unrest was precipitated by a series of factors set off by the incarceration in KZN of the country’s former president, Jacob Zuma, on July 7. Tyesi was but one example from a large contingent of small and medium businesses that took the biggest hit, especially in the townships in two of South Africa’s most pertinent provinces and economies KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Gauteng. Video of Ntombi Tysesi’s business on the day of the civil unrest. “They said the were throwing bricks and stones at the pub and now, because they were trying to get through, at their car as well.” “They called me and told me that they were running for their lives,” Tyesi recalls the horror of the day in an interview with FORBES AFRICA. Confused, she requested the security company to go on site to assess what may have triggered the alarms. South Africa was on strict lockdown with Covid-19 numbers rising adamantly and a deadly Delta variant on the prowl, and her restaurant had been shut, just like most retail establishments forced to comply with government regulations. As owner of The People’s Republic, a small pub and grill eatery in the heart of Soweto, located in front of the normally-bustling Maponya Mall, Tyesi was shocked. AT EXACTLY 10 AM ON JULY 12, A COLD MONDAY winter’s morning in Johannesburg, Ntombi Tyesi answered a frantic call from her security services company alerting her about alarms going off at her restaurant in the sprawling township of Soweto.
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