Phoenix: Rain blows down – bat, hammer, hockey stick – like Njabulo Damini lying on the sidewalk.
He and five friends, they were all black, had been driving in a minibus taxi through the Phoenix streets, an india-dominated suburban suburbs created from the segregation of South African Forced Racial Apartheid.
The problem dragged them from the car and beat them angrily, according to witnesses and video recordings.
Other people were chased and beaten by the crowd, who had been whipped in the last few days by Whatsapp Warnings and reports of violence and looting by black people.
Damini then died of his injury, his family said.
South Africa seizes this summer by several worst civil riots since the end of apartheid.
Prison former President Jacob Zuma for refusing to appear before corruption investigations triggered violent protest by supporters.
Immediately, riots and loot erupts in several parts of the country, fed by poverty, inequality and government failure to provide basic services, such as water or electricity.
Officials call the violence of rebellion – efforts to sabotage rivals and the successors of Zuma, President Cyril Ramaphosa, partly by triggering some of the oldest race tensions in the country.
Nationally, more than 340 people died in chaos.
But officials have been worried about what they say damage the social order: dozens of vigilante murders by ordinary citizens.
Vigilantism is spoken in Phoenix.
The state police minister said 36 people there – 33 of them were black – killed.
Fifty-six people have been arrested in connection with Phoenix violence.
Mass of most Indians, worried that their community was under siege, connecting the road barrier.
They stopped black people and sometimes beat them or killed them, said the police, waged a fragile relationship between black and South Indian people – two groups were marginalized under the apartheid rule.
Interview with dozens of black and indian parts of the population, as well as reviews of video recording, show that at least some violence and death can be prevented if the police have provided basic security.
While the Apartheid government considers the black and Indian people lower than the white population, Indians are placed over black people in hierarchies.
It gives them access to better education, the freer movement and a more firmly house than black people.
On July 11, after a day watching TV recordings in shopping centers in other places were looted, and the police could not be found, many local residents Phoenix got anonymous message and was not verified on WhatsApp.
“Tomorrow we come in all your Indian cities to close everything,” read.
“You will wake up and see the fire.” Residents began to get ready for attacks.
Videos and messages leave a lot of feelings that their city is being mastered.
One video shows hundreds of people who charge the Phoenix from a black-dominated settlement.
Stranded shots were heard when looting walked towards the shopping plaza, said Marc Chetty, a resident.
A bullet tore the kitchen window Chandramati Bhagwati, 66, grazing him when he cooked, he said.
Two shopping plazas are looted.
Fear, many people armed themselves and flock to the streets to establish your barrier.
People argue that they did not face black people because of their race, but because they seemed to do most looting.
Around Phoenix, Indians ask how people can say this about race.
India said that while the government failed to create opportunities for their black neighbors, they hired them as gardener and housemaids.
But for Linda Khawula, one of the friends of Dlamini who was with him that night, everything had changed.
“Now I have hate in my heart,” he said.
“I feel hate against Indians when I don’t feel it before.”