21-day nationwide lockdown announced for South Africa

[2023]

Just watching this on BT.

Do you think its like this in your area?

No, but the shops are still quite empty from the panic buying this week.

It's hard to relate, I don't live in those conditions and it must be hard for those people right now.

When do social grants go out? That could be quite a chaotic time.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Anyone out on the streets now is taking advantage of nobody being around and likely up to no good.

No question... But I'm referring to the portion where you see the cop pointing his weapon into a property.

 

[2023]

Anyone out on the streets now is taking advantage of nobody being around and likely up to no good.

Or going to the hospital? Returning home from a long day working as an essential service?

But yes, there shouldn't be many people out, and those out must be moving with a direct destination.

 

[gottagoon]

Shops all closed. Still cars driving around.

No police or law enforcement.

 

[Fulcrum29]

No question... But I'm referring to the portion where you see the cop pointing his weapon into a property.

It is extremely hard to determine why the police acted in that manner. We have no run-up to that event other than Yeoville being dispersed due to unruliness under lockdown. Not to mention that Yeoville is a known crime hotspot. The media being out on the hunt, they would love a good human rights abuse story.

Facts are more important than ever, we are tested under lockdown and many people are being opportunistic disobeying the law.

We don't want the police and army to strongarm, but neither can they be without any authority. How do they maintain that delicate balance? For the most part, the police and army will be obediently operating within an obedient society.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

No, but the shops are still quite empty from the panic buying this week.

It's hard to relate, I don't live in those conditions and it must be hard for those people right now.

When do social grants go out? That could be quite a chaotic time.

Thanks.

I am not close to home, but my kids are in SA, and I am quite worried TBH.

 

[Budza]

Suppose it's too much to hope for a simple list of what you can and can't do during this lockdown - one written in plain English and not mangled by officialese or requiring a moron in a hat or African print dress speaking on national TV .

Just btw, is jogging and dog walking allowed or not?

As soon as someone takes the trouble to interpret their BS and create a table, they'll change their minds.

 

[ponder]

Ish

The usual crowd, 'you got nothing to fear from the police'.

Shoot first ask questions later, fsck your permit.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Fox News:

South Africans ignore stay-at-home order imposed to tackle coronavirus

Thousands of South Africans have been ignoring the stay-at-home lockdown instructions imposed overnight by the government designed to stop the spread of coronavirus.

www.foxnews.com

South Africans ignore stay-at-home order imposed to tackle coronavirus

...

The country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, donned full combat fatigues and cap to address some of the 2,800 troops he deployed at midnight to help police keep the streets quiet, saying the troops must “wage war against an invisible enemy.” He added this is “the most important mission in the history of our country”.

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Johannesburg's Sandton district, often called the richest place in Africa, has been turned into a ghost town. The acknowledged epicenter, nearly all of the infections in South Africa are in people who have had the funds to recently travel abroad.

But in Johannesburg’s main townships of Soweto and Alexandra, home to an estimated 6 million people, local television ENCA reported earlier it’s “business as usual." The channel showed busy streets thronged with people, with long queues. “It’s like a holiday," one Sowetan told Fox News.

One woman in Alexandra, standing in a line with hundreds of others to enter a supermarket, said the government didn’t plan the rollout of the lockdown correctly, as she like many others only got their monthly salary today, and she needed to buy groceries.

Police in their vehicles were seen driving past large crowds without stopping. Social distancing of three feet between people was not being practiced, with one shopper remarking that "because someone will steal my place in the queue.”

“Kids are playing soccer and marbles in the street, and in groups. The only thing I see is danger,” Soweto resident Thabo Moloi told Fox News. “ When are we gonna take this serious? These (kids') parents really don’t have self-love.”

Video from a Cape Town suburb showed a soldier smashing a beer bottle and slapping and kicking a man alleged to have been drinking in public, something banned during the lockdown.

Despite over 1,000 infections and 2 deaths, many are not taking the threat the virus poses seriously. Naledi Radebe, 29, summed up how she and many felt:

“It was like, there’s this flu, that’s moving around in Asia, and killing old people. And on this side, there was a lot of “oh, it’s not going to affect Africans.”

Radebe now thinks differently: she was declared positive with Covid-19 after arriving back from the United Kingdom.

Some are alert to the dangers: "I won’t be surprised if infections double this week, and deaths rise," posts Nthato Mthimade on Twitter, “ because South Africans can’t take anything seriously”.

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[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1243582708120522761

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Suppose it's too much to hope for a simple list of what you can and can't do during this lockdown - one written in plain English and not mangled by officialese or requiring a moron in a hat or African print dress speaking on national TV .

Just btw, is jogging and dog walking allowed or not?

It's pinned on the news24 live feed for quick reference.

LIST | The dos and don'ts during the national lockdown | News24

Police Minister Bheki Cele has warned any person who contravenes the regulations of the nationwide lockdown will be guilty of a criminal offence.

m.news24.com

 

[Swa]

Some don't even believe the virus exists. Stellar example of the ANC's education policies.

 

[Drifter]

Tracey is an idiot.

 

[Drifter]

Tracey is an idiot.

 

[Swa]

Tracey is an idiot.

You don't have to give your opinion twice.

 

[SAguy]

Seen a vid of what looks like durban beach... army shooting a beachgoer pointblank in the back with a rubber bullet.

People are crazy to take on any officials now

 

[maumau]

Seen a vid of what looks like durban beach... army shooting a beachgoer pointblank in the back with a rubber bullet.

People are crazy to take on any officials now

Think that vid was taken in Brazil. Look at the word in the ice cream cart (or whatever it is)

Itapema

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1243541071935700995

I see Juli-arse has got a new name for white people. Not the worst name to be known by...certainly an upgrade on 'settler'.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I see the dog walkers in my neighbourhood decided that it are time to walk their dogs.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1243541071935700995

I see Juli-arse has got a new name for white people. Not the worst name to be known by...certainly an upgrade on 'settler'.

Rupert donates a billion so now he's an investor...