IT'S A WAR ZONE: STARVING rioters in South Africa have said they are on the verge of "eating each other" as days of looting and violence sparks severe food shortages.

Chaotic protests have erupted across the country after former president Jacob Zuma was handed a 15-month jail term last week for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry.

At least 75 people have died and more than 1,200 arrested as the country's consumer goods body estimated more than 800 shops had been ransacked.

Many of the deaths were caused by stampedes as thousands of people raided shops, stealing food, electrical appliances, alcohol and clothes, cops said.

Shocking images showed hundreds of people running towards a warehouse on Wednesday and tearing through containers as the violence battered the country for a sixth day.

The looting has hit supply chains and transport links in the southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, impacting goods and services around the country.

'PREPARED TO DIE'

As disruption to farming, manufacturing and oil refining sparks fears of food and fuel shortages, community leader Nhlanhla Lux, 33, told the Financial Times: "We are on the verge of eating each other."

Dressed in camouflage and armed with a gun outside a shopping centre in Johannesburg's Soweto township, he said he is "prepared to die" to halt the chaos.

"We can’t sit back while the township economy dilapidates further," he said.

"The biggest mall, that employs the biggest number of people, is the one left standing. If it falls, it’s the last elephant."

Bread was being sold from a delivery truck outside the shopping mall as stores have either been looted or shut due to fears of vandalism.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned parts of the country "may soon be running short of basic provisions following the extensive disruption of food, fuel and medicine supply chains".

The government is set to deploy 25,000 troops to curb the unrest.

State-owned logistics operator Transnet declared a "force majeure" yesterday - an emergency beyond its control - on a key rail line that links Johannesburg to the coast due to the unrest.

Earlier this week, the country's largest refinery SAPREF shut its plant in Durban, which is responsible for a third of South Africa's fuel supply.

"It's inevitable that we will have fuel shortages in the next couple of days or weeks," the Automobile Association's Layton Beard said.

He warned if law and order were not restored soon, "we are going to have a massive humanitarian crisis".

VIGILANTE GROUPS

Sugarcane fields were torched in KwaZulu-Natal, the main cane-growing region, while cattle were stolen elsewhere.

"It is a war zone... towns deserted, shops looted, bodies lying on the road," John Steenhuisen, leader of the main opposition Democratic Alliance in the province, told the Financial Times.

Locals have started forming vigilante groups to protect shops and buildings in their neighbourhoods.

A group of minibus operators armed themselves with sticks and firearms yesterday and violently beat up suspected looters in Vosloorus township, southeastern Johannesburg.

The government has been under mounting pressure to increase boots on the ground to quickly put a lid on the violence battering an already struggling economy.

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Nelson Mandela o, come and see your legacy.

Just imagine Fulani Buhari arresting Obasanjo a Yoruba man or Jonathan an Ogbia man... Think of what Yoruba's would do to any cows they see and any Fulani man's business sasa Ibadan would be a child's play... Think of what militants would do

Arresting Jacob Zuma was a wrong move... Zulus won't take it likely

PS; before you think riot and looting is exclusively a black man thing.... Remember Antifact, Black lives matter, Trump Republican supporters, EPL and European Football supporters,



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You can't eat your cake and still have it. The starvation is not going to be easy at all. The ATM machine looter will then have time to convert it to food maybe through grinding the machine.

Oh yea; children of the son

Lmao..
These people too MUMU.

Y'all can drink sniper for all i care.

Bunch of xenophobic ass.holes.

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Motherfuckers lazy black dogs SA men.They are so nauseatingly lazy that they now wants to resort to cannibalism.Abeg don't eat Nigerians.

Jerryherd:




Just imagine Fulani Buhari arresting Obasanjo a Yoruba man or Jonathan an Ogbia man... Think of what Yoruba's would do to any cows they see and any Fulani man's business sasa Ibadan would be a child's play... Think of what militants would do

Arresting Jacob Zuma was a wrong move... Zulus won't take it likely



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This is wrong comparison.

Think of when Buhari leaves power and a Yoruba or Igbo president or southern president arrest him and detain him

Think of what,the northerners will do.
They will do worse than this

In zuma we trust.
#ZuluManWithSomePower

South Africa is gradually drifting towards anarchy.

I dont understand yet,are these people in support of a man that was convicted of stealing their common wealth? Or,they just felt like tearing the country apart because of too much poverty and anger?

Guess,its build up case of anger.

Africa!!!

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SOUTH AFRICA DEY CRAZY!!

Africa my Africa

If i visit You and you offer me food and i refuse to eat, pls insist that i eat, its shyness! dont let me leave without eating pls�

Country don hard now!�

There is something fundamentally wrong with these people

How does looting reduce the prison sentence of Zuma

Who is going to suffer when the shortages hit

Who is going to suffer the dilapidated infrastructures

Who would be put out of work in those malls that were looted and destroyed

It just takes a few minutes to reason with a few strands of neurons to know the right thing to do

But the animalistic tendencies in these people is something I cannot fathom

Something is fundamentally wrong with the black race

This guys are like homeless zombies

Looting every shop they see

Pathetic

If Nigerians get half of the advantages south Africans get front the whites, the country will be far more developed than the southies. At least I trust my Yoruba's people to treat the White people well.

I could remember my school teacher writing on the wall in our class that year 'Apartheid is a crime against humanity' today see what the people he fought for have turned into

What’s stopping them? Abeg let them start jo

I’m convinced now that South Africans are indeed like Northern Nigeria especially their men. The country is only civilized and prosperous because of the presence of White men. I didn’t believe this before, but it’s starting to make sense.

South Africa could not have become what it is if it was solely Blacks.

I can say that Nigeria is really trying because we’re solely Blacks with the north constant pulling is backwards but we still the strongest economy in Africa

In Zuma's voice: South Africans and looting

I think government should sponsor this type of cannibalism. You decided to loot innocent people's business just in the name of protesting. Please eat yourselves and make it easy for government

LAST MAN STANDING!!!

Let them merge these people together with our northern brothers.