Defiant people keep cops busy on streets

Police had expressed concern that some of the residents were not complying with lockdown's strict measures calling on people to stay in their homes.

At Mkhalazenke informal settlement, law enforcement officers wrestled a 30-year-old man who allegedly insulted a soldier when told to stop filming the patrol and stay inside his house.The man resisted arrest and tried to fight off the officers who wanted to lock him inside a police van. Mngomezulu said although most businesses that were not supposed to operate were found closed, people refusing to stay in their homes was a bigger challenge.

"We have arrested four people due to noncompliance and one of them we arrested for possession of an illegal firearm."He said police struggled to control the masses of traders who were allowed on the streets to sell food this week.

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