FILE: SAPS members and SANDF soldiers deploy in the Mitchells Plain area in Cape Town to enforce the Disaster Management Act and to ensure the adherence of the lockdown regulations on 20 April 2020. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter

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Lockdown: UN raises concerns over use of excessive force in SA, other countries

A director of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs referred to SA's heavy handed, and highly militarised enforcement of the stay-at home...

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