“This animosity that you are creating between these two provinces will come back to bite you, stop building Berlin Wall between these two provinces...'
The special grace period allowing interprovincial travel ended at midnight on Thursday.
Another 110 people were quarantined in Mpekweni and Fish River in Port Alfred. They had also travelled from Cape Town. But Western Cape transport MEC and DA provincial leader Bonginkosi Madikizela lashed out at the Eastern Cape government on Facebook, accusing it of “building a Berlin Wall” between the provinces and questioning why commuters from the Western Cape were targeted for testing.A screen grab of a Facebook post by Western Cape Provincial Leader and transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela.
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