#Lockdownlevel4 Police Minister Bheki Cele is here and stopping cars. He tells media he doesn’t think SA is taking regulations seriously and might make a request to the Command Council regarding jogging and cycling in clubs and outside regulation restrictions pic.twitter.com/oRiSttiIqy
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He added the police were calling on South Africans to refrain from breaking lockdown regulations and only conduct essential business.
Problem
“This is a problem… I don’t know if they are taking this matter seriously, they should be.
“The fact that we have arrested so many people who were drinking in their cars tells you that we will have to work hard, and by the way, remember what the president said – if things are not going a proper way, reversal is easy… From what we have seen, South Africa is misbehaving,” Cele said.
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He added people’s actions currently suggested “we can forget about Level 3” and did not “deserve” the relaxation of restrictions.
“The flouting of regulations was not because people did not know about them,” Cele said.
Deaths
“People know. What I guess they do not believe is that there have been a lot of deaths.
Cele leads an operation in Krugersdorp on Friday. (Azarrah Karrim/News24)
“As South Africans, we are still lucky but we are beginning to pick up – the day before yesterday was the first time ever we had 354 at a go … and 10 deaths in one day,” Cele said.
He added it was possible South Africa could follow in the footsteps of Italy or the US where tens of thousands of people have died.
“The problem is that it will not only be you who dies, you will die with the rest of us. This thing has the potential to wipe off the nation, wiping off humankind,” Cele said.
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