The maskless protesters marched with placards calling on people to say no to mandatory vaccines and vaccine passports.
Police spokesperson Colonel Andrè Traut said a case docket in terms of the Disaster Management Act regulations has been opened and the matter is now under investigation.
Activist Yaseen Johnson accused the police of being aggressive towards peaceful citizens, who, he said, were “expressing their birthright as free humans”. Senior lecturer from the Department of Global Health at Stellenbosch University, Dr Jo Barnes, said conspiracy theories, unscientific interpretations and some people’s opinions on the pandemic and vaccinations had caused a lot of damage across the world.
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