{"id":37538,"date":"2020-03-31T04:46:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T08:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/?p=37538"},"modified":"2020-03-31T04:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T08:46:34","slug":"south-african-police-unleash-water-cannons-during-virus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\/website_b1ce9d46\/south-african-police-unleash-water-cannons-during-virus-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"South African police unleash water cannons during virus lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Lisa Vives <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite efforts by President Cyril Ramaphosa to&nbsp; enforce a pandemic lockdown at <a href=\"https:\/\/africaglobalnews.com\">South Africa\u2019s <\/a>overcrowded slums without violence, defense forces were reported to be joining police in firing on the community with rubber bullets and water cannons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5506089157017573\" data-ad-slot=\"1517254432\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Visuals of the heavy-handed treatment were seen in news broadcasts around the continent and on social media. The lockdown was launched with tighter restrictions than in other countries, and included bans on any sales of alcohol and cigarettes and even barred exercises outside the home.&nbsp; \u201cOur people will be looking to you to give them reassurance, not as a force of might but as a force of kindness,\u201d the President said in a TV broadcast. \u201cThey must know that you will be looking after them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in contrast to those gentle words, video images showed a soldier kicking and beating civilians caught after the lockdown. Water cannons and rubber bullets were fired to disperse people lining up outside food shops \u2013 a permitted activity under the lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5506089157017573\" data-ad-slot=\"1517254432\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Police were accused of tasering and beating a man to death after the man was caught going to buy beer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/bad47729-32be-4865-b68a-27506158f023\">Media reports<\/a> said he was beaten with a hammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Financial Times, South Africa\u2019s middle class was mostly able to stockpile supplies days before the lockdown. By contrast, in poorer townships and inner city areas were workers were recently paid, lines were longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, as the country\u2019s positive cases jumped to 1,326 \u2013 the highest on the continent &#8211; President Ramaphosa announced the government will soon launch a 10 000-strong medical project to screen people for the virus. Three people have died so far from the coronavirus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other lockdowns around the continent include: Zimbabwe, starting a three-week lockdown on Monday, Lesotho will go on a 25-day lockdown. Ghana has announced a two-week lockdown Accra and Kumasi starting Monday. Residents will only be allowed to go out to buy food, water and medicines and to use public toilets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s sprawling capital, Kinshasa, was meant to go into lockdown for four days, the measure was delayed after the announcement caused a spike in the price of basic goods and worries about unrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5506089157017573\" data-ad-slot=\"1517254432\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>And in neighboring Congo-Brazzaville, President Denis Sassou Nguesso declared a health emergency and announced a 30 day lockdown in the country, combined with a night curfew, from Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Sahel, Burkina Faso, the capital Ouagadougou, will be quarantined for two weeks from Friday and in Mali, the government has imposed some anti-coronavirus measures, including a night-time curfew, but said a long-delayed parliamentary election would go ahead on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Africa Global News Publication <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Vives Despite efforts by President Cyril Ramaphosa to&nbsp; enforce a pandemic lockdown at South Africa\u2019s overcrowded slums without violence, defense forces were reported to be joining police in firing on the community with rubber bullets and water cannons. 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