We have to declare a state of emergency - Melanie Veness of PMCB

The chaos continues in KwaZulu-Natal. Now, major food shortages are expected to affect the entire country as grocery stores are looted, petrol dries up, and highways are barred. Melanie Veness, chief executive of the Pietermaritzburg Chamber of Business, paints a grim picture of what's happening on the ground. She believes that only by declaring a state of emergency can we hope to gain control of a dire situation. "People are saying, is the army so well camouflaged here that we can't see them? To deploy 2,500 people to the hot spots in South Africa to try and quell this is just ludicrous. We need a show of force on the ground that is going to ensure that we can get our economy back on track." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices