We are living in fear, says Durban shop owner after store torched by mob By Nkululeko Nene Share Durban - He narrowly escaped death when his shop was set alight, allegedly by a mob from the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), but Pakistani businessman Altaf Hussain is not giving up. âIâm not going to run away. I will have to find ways to rebuild my business. I have nowhere to go,â he said after the incident on Monday. Hussain has been running a cellphone and repair shop on Joe Slovo Street for the past two years. Two other shops owned by foreign nationals were also torched and others were looted.