sou w barng 00 patrolling the streets there. they are helping police tamp down a week of riots and looting sparked by the jailing of former president jacob zuma. debora patta is in johannesburg. >> reporter: looters brazenly down roads carrying their bounty. >> they've looted everything. >> reporter: in this area, soldiers went door to door, hunting for stolen goods. it was an easy hoard. it appears just about everyone was guilty of stealing something. i'm surrounded by piles of stolen goods that police and soldiers have retrieved from looters. there is everything here from food to clothing, even cooking pots. years of distrust the police force has seen armed groups take the law into their own hands. that's included carrying out vigilante justice with devastating consequences when a 15-year-old boy was gunned down in the crossfire. the anger by former president jacob zuma's supporters over his jailing for contempt of court has dragged up something far more explosive, a burning resentment over decades of inequality, poverty and h