21daysLockdownSA: Capetonians made their way en masse to shopping centres on payday to stock up before the countrywide lockdown that will start at midnight. coronavirus
Customer Eddy Jacobs, from Mitchells Plain, said: “If this problem persists, retailers might push up their prices and I don’t have any income for that. I bought everything I was supposed to buy, meat, fish, oil, milk, rice - all of that. I bought for myself for emergencies but I have some brothers and sisters, so maybe they’ll come and say I’m hungry, I need this.
“I’m getting just normal stuff. Usually, I’ll buy mealie meal, rice, cooking oil, and fruits. I found everything I need. Nothing is missing. Everything that I need, I got.” Hundreds of people are queuing in long lines at Giant Hyper in Brackenfell to buy goods ahead of the National Lockdown. Picture: Henk Kruger/African News Agency
A bit far from his home, Vuyolwethu Mavundla, from Woodstock, Cape Town, said that he had found his way to Cape Gate Mall, in Kraaifontein, only because his partner had asked him to purchase weights for him, which he thought he would find at the mall.
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