Woman threw baby into the void to save her from fire amid looting in South Africa | the Chronicle

South Africa is experiencing a dramatic situation due to looting and fires started by the population. The reason? The ex-president Jacob Zuma He was imprisoned in the last hours and provoked populations in different parts of the country. The army and the police are on the streets trying to control and arrest those responsible for the wave of riots, which has already claimed more than 70 deaths and 1,200 detainees.

In this context, a desperate scene in Durban was broadcast in the last hours. The protagonist was Naledi Manyoni, 26, who was on the 16th floor of a burning building, with her 23-month-old baby

Noticing that the place was covered in flames, he tried to escape. Since he couldn’t cross the elevator and went down the stairs. When he realized that he was unable to get to the exit, he stopped on the second floor and walked through the marquee of a shopping center to the first floor. The He grabbed his baby by the arms and released her. The young girl is stopped by a group of people who were in the street.

How the incidents started

The two regions affected by the wave of violence are the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal and of Gauteng, Where are they Johannesburg Yes Pretoria respectively.

“We are pressing the accelerator so that what happened does not go further in terms of destruction”, promised the South African Minister of Security, See Célé, speaking to the media during a visit to a devastated shopping center in the Mamelodi district, outside Pretoria.

The significant material damage has not yet been quantified and it is feared that in the coming days there will be problems with the supply of food and fuel, so this Wednesday many South Africans lined up early in the morning at supermarkets and gas stations.

So the woman saved her baby