Although companies affected by the violence are working round the clock to get supplies to shops, South Africans are facing long hours in queues to get basic staples to their families.
Days of violence and the looting and burning of trucks, retail outlets, malls and warehouses in KwaZulu-Natal and some parts of Gauteng have resulted in food and fuel shortages never seen in post-apartheid South Africa.
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