More than 15,000 people have been arrested for breaking lockdown regulations in Gauteng alone. This was revealed by provincial Police Commissioner Elias Mawela during a joint operation with the army in Soweto. Officials arrested the owner of butchery at Bara taxi rank for not having the proper papers and selling expired meat.
Those caught outside without a proper reason were also arrested. For us to arrest over 15,000 people, it tells us one thing that people don’t see this virus as a threat,” said Mawela.
“We’re not happy about it, but we have no choice. We must apply the laws of the country.”
But visuals of a woman who was arrested for selling atchar without a permit, caused outrage. We’ll look into that,” said Mawela. “These are some of the things which we need to correct.”
Police in Dobsonville, Soweto arrest a street vendor for selling atchar without a permit. @etvNewsSA #Covid19SA pic.twitter.com/bdFqz5Jo1n
— Graeme Raubenheimer (@GraemeRauby) April 23, 2020
The woman is hauled into the back of a police van. The officers told me shortly after this video stopped recording that she was selling atchar without a permit. @etvNewsSA #Covid19SA pic.twitter.com/H6mi65OGyk
— Graeme Raubenheimer (@GraemeRauby) April 23, 2020
Transport is ready to take her home.
Really was hoping that the discussion would have been different at least at this time
— Tumi Sole (@tumisole) April 23, 2020
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Source: eNCA
