Indian vs. Black: Vigilante Killings Upend a South African Town – The New York Times

Indian vs. Black: Vigilante Killings Upend a South African Town (Published 2021)

As rioting and looting swept the country, Indians in the suburb of Phoenix set up roadblocks to police their streets. Dozens of Black people passing through wound up dead.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/world/africa/South-Africa-Phoenix-riots-deaths.html

Nationwide, more than 340 people died in the mayhem, many in stampedes or circumstances that remain unclear. But government officials have been alarmed by a dynamic that, they say, dangerously undermines the social order: dozens of vigilante killings by ordinary citizens.