Abstract
This paper aims to focus on the importance of humanitarian logistics and supply chain to overcome natural disasters. South Africa is a country with low risk to natural disasters but it still can be affected by natural disasters such as drought, floods, fires and mining disasters. Humanitarian organisations need to have a good logistics and supply chain to be able to assist people better and quickly in case of emergency.
Humanitarian organisation must have a structure and implement the right coordination for the operation to be conducted in a proper way. Those organisations have to be prepared no matter the disaster.
Finally the distribution of goods in where the organisation needs to have an excellent structure that suit every kind of natural catastrophe happening in the country.