South African shop attendants in Tugela Ferry, a town in KwaZulu-Natal have devised a perfect method to deal with the rioters who were hell-bent on looting from their shops.

The solution to the looting problem lied in a very simple but effective concept that could easily be found within their stores.

The brilliant shop workers doused cooking oil on the tiled floors in front of the stores to deter any attempts by looters to come in and loot.

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One such shop was the Shoprite supermarket whose action left many with laughter and some with pains to nurse.

Potential looters found the floor rather unstable making them slip and hit the floor with the full force of their weights responding to gravity because the oil made the floor very slippery. 

Shoprite store’s manager Mduduzo Sikhakhane encouraged other stores to adopt the looting-proof method to secure their properties. 

Shoprite is the only store in that mall that the looting rioters did not have access to.

Sporadic protests and riots broke out in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces after the jailing last week of former President Jacob Zuma.