"When did you ever have to stand in a queue like this for food, for nappies, for baby formula"
Telegraph Video - 16/07/21
After the looting and rioting, some South African residents are struggling to buy food, and are forming huge queues to get basic supplies such as bread or nappies.
A woman filmed her shock at seeing the swathes of people queuing in what seemed like an endless line to be able to go into a supermarket near Durban.
"People could be attacked, but this is what hunger does. This is what people do when they need to eat," the woman says in the video above. "It's heartbreaking."
The jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma last week triggered riots and violence in some areas, with shops being ransacked.
Residents have also been expressing fears of fuel shortages and unconvinced that the violence had abated for good. In Durban itself, petrol tankers with armed escorts were seen distributing fuel across the city.
It comes as 25,000 South African troops began taking up positions on Thursday to help quell the riots. At least 117 people have been killed in the violence, authorities said.
With the police overwhelmed, many neighbourhoods have resorted to ad-hoc community militias, setting up DIY roadblocks and arming themselves with guns, clubs and machetes to protect their property and lives.
Watch the video above to see the shocking scenes at one supermarket.
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