“Close your store Gogo,” they sternly told her, helping her to douse the flames inside a tin drum she had used to warm up the pap and vleis she had been selling. Covid19SA 21daylockdownSA
From about 4pm, a TimesLIVE reporter and photographer who had been tracking the soldiers from earlier in the day, joined them on their foot patrol about the township.
Along the route, the officers conducted stop-and-searches of the numerous people they found in the streets. Those who were stopped were asked to produce permits. The majority of them complied.The presence of the soldiers undoubtedly changed the mood in the streets. Where people were previously walking about and gathering, they quickly dispersed at the sight of the soldiers. Some ran into their houses as the men in brown and green shouted"inside, inside”.
For many small business owners, it was business as usual earlier but one by one, they shut their roller doors at the command of the soldiers.
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