Failure to enforce wearing of masks can get you a criminal record: Lamola

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Failure to enforce the wearing of a face mask could result in a criminal record for event organisers, store managers and other compliance officers, the government has warned.

South Africans must wear masks in public or potentially face criminal charges, ministers Ronald Lamola and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma have warned.

It's something which we are still dealing with. But at this stage, that is what it is - that is the law.” Lamola said there are people who have previously defied orders to wear a mask in public, saying it was not the law. This has risked the lives of other members of public and law enforcement officials, he said.Dlamini-Zuma said the matter was about protecting people and not criminalising them.

 

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