Paul Miller, Cipla

Cipla re­opens South African man­u­fac­tur­ing site af­ter vi­o­lent protests

A South African man­u­fac­tur­ing site that was raid­ed is back open af­ter the com­pa­ny says it was loot­ed dur­ing vi­o­lent protests about a month ago.

A Cipla man­u­fac­tur­ing plant was among the build­ings hit by loot­ing and vi­o­lence, in what the BBC called the worse scene of vi­o­lence since the ad­vent of democ­ra­cy in 1994. Though the Dur­ban fa­cil­i­ty did not, in fact, burn down, as Cipla clar­i­fied in its press re­lease Thurs­day, it was sub­ject to tur­moil.

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