Soaring food prices have hit millions of South Africans hard: more than half of the 47-million population lives below the $1 a day bread price. Increasingly food is being looted during organized protest campaigns by trade unions and residents. During a riot in Carltonville near Johannesburg on May 1 2008, this store was extensively plundered. Picture below a thief is caught with bags of food scattered all around him. The SA trade union leaders on May 1 held rousing speeches calling ’shops to be plundered, their food to be robbed and their stolen clothes to be worn’ . Food-riots like these are becoming increasingly routine in South Africa in 2008.