COVID-19: Intensified policing in Durban leads to hundreds of arrests
Six-hundred-and-eighty-five people have been arrested in eThekwini since Monday, for contravention of the lockdown regulations.
Transport and Community Safety MEC Bheki Ntuli says they were arrested for various transgressions including traffic offenses, mass gathering, and people perpetrating fake news.
"Some of them were found after a tip-off by some residents that they were selling non-essential goods as well as those that are orchestrating strikes taking an opportunity that is prevailing itself now," says Ntuli
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The enforcement of the lockdown was intensified in eThekwini from this week after the premier declared the district the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in KZN with nearly 400 cases.
#Covid19SA @ECR_Newswatch is at a roadblock in Durban today. So far, over a dozen cars have been forced to turn around as they do not have a permit and cannot account for where they are going. pic.twitter.com/gGmGq8Zk2s
— Nushera Raisa Soodyal (@nushera) April 23, 2020
MEC Ntuli was observing a roadblock this afternoon at one of the busy roads in Durban.
Scores of motorists have been made to turn back at a roadblock at one of the busiest routes in Durban.
Officers have also been issuing fines for not abiding by the lockdown rules.
Metro police and the South African police service were on the R102, stopping cars on the incoming and outgoing lanes.
Cars were being turned around because people do not have the permit required to travel or do not have a proper excuse as to where they are going.
