Shoppers stand in long queues from as early as 6am as some stores reopen in KZN

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Hundreds of KwaZulu-Natal residents spent hours in snaking queues on Thursday when shops reopened, after several days of looting and violence brought the province to a standstill.

At Windermere Centre in Durban, only 20 people were allowed in at a time, with a 15-minute time limit at the few stores that opened their doors, including Shoprite Checkers, Woolworths, a fruit and veg shop and a pet shop.

Priyanka and Myushka Naidoo joined the queue at about 6am and walked out of the centre just after 2pm with 40 items between them. “It was a drag — we spent more than eight hours waiting to get in. It was freezing when we got there and then Myushka walked home to get us hot chocolate. And then I had to go home for a toilet break,” said Priyanka.

“We watched Netflix and TikTok videos and spoke to the woman behind us. At about 11.30am we were starving and I took a walk to Florida Road to get us pizza, which was only ready about an hour later,” said Myushka.

 

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And Covid will continue to do its work🙆🏿‍♂️🙆🏿‍♂️

Leadership of Anc failed Kzn people. They knew of this but couldnt prevent.

serves KZN well. Karma

Mid COVID. Unforgivable.

Absolute idiocracy nxaaa

The last time we saw queues like that was on 27 April 1994. Then we had hope and excitement.

Wish all investors can pull out of natal

Why is it so easy for our Zulu-speaking brothers to be used by opportunists who want to achieve their own selfish ends. In the early 90's, the minority white government used them to delay our freedom. In 2021, the Gupta proxies use them to regain state power!!

This was early 😂😂😂

This is embarrassing 😳

This makes me do angry why dud they not stop the looting, this has caused a bad impact on everyone😡😡😡

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