Hundreds arrested in Western Cape and Gauteng for breaking lockdown regulations
30 March 2020
Hundreds of people have been arrested in the Western Cape and Gauteng for flouting lockdown regulations, put in place to curb the spread of the deadly Covid-19.
In Gauteng, police have arrested 281 people since Sunday for breaking lockdown regulations, provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Elias Mawela has said.
Mawela spoke to Bongani Bingwa on Talk Radio 702 on Monday.
"Most of those people who we have arrested are those people who do not want to stay in their residences. They gather… along the street, they drink liquor. They just continue as if life is normal."