Workers of giant African retail store, Shoprite were seen yesterday pouring large amounts of vegetable cooking oil onto a large tiled floor that is next to their store.
The workers literally emptied huge cooking oil containers at the entrance of the retail store in a move to scare away rioters. But this was done way before the rioters came to this particular shopping mall where Shoprite is located.
WATCH VIDEO: Rioters Slide as soon as they reach this particular "Cooking Oil" Mall
WATCH VIDEO: Shoprite Workers in South Africa use Cooking Oil as a defence tool
The workers are said to have received prior notice from the breaking news across media in South Africa that rioters especially in the two provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng were looting anything they came across.
From clothing stores to liquor stores and restaurants, the rioters were not sparing any business they came across as they looted but the cooking oil mall defeated them since movement on the slippery floor had been made extremely difficult and dangerous.
The ingenious cooking oil idea praised
People all over social media praise the anti-looting solution saying it looked simple but was very effective in preventing the looters from entering the Shoprite store.
A one Josiebear said; So good to see this. So so sad to see what has been happening. Well done to those Shoprite employees.
Other people supported the initiative saying it was very innovative and showed the true character of how a human brain works when there is a problem at hand needing solutions.
How did the current South African riots start
The riots according to local media are said to have started on Tuesday hours after former president, Jacob Zuma had turned himself into jail to serve a sentence of 15 months which was awarded to him by a local court after he was accused of aiding corruption during his term of presidency in South Africa.
But according to other sources, the true cause of the riots is not really about Zuma but about the economic hardships that many South African black majority people are facing ever since end of apartheid in the 1990s.
