This is what 280,047 people were arrested for under lockdown

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People failing to confine themselves to their homes during the lockdown constituted the majority of the 280,047 people arrested for contravening the lockdown regulations between March 26 and July 9 in SA.

The arrests were made after the issuing of lockdown regulations in March, designed to curb the spread of Covid-19.

• Police also arrested 3,839 people for moving between provinces and districts and another 1,881 for carrying out evictions. During level 3, the majority of arrests were for selling tobacco products and convening a prohibited gathering on a public road or in a building . Nearly 300,000 people were charged for contravening regulations which were conceived by the national command council on a whimReacting to the minister's answers, Whitfield said Cele and the police service had unwittingly, during the lockdown, criminalised ordinary citizens.

 

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