Not sure how our less than friendly police service would have dealt with the two young guys who just paddled past the deck - doing circuits of the lake in a kayak.
Thankfully they weren't doing anything nearly as stupid as the two Brits who crashed through the border from Swaziland into SA, evaded a police pursuit and drove for 3 1/2 hours to Durban, only to be tracked to their guest house by the GPS unit on their hire car. Reckon they'll be spending a few months in jail just for the border crossing stunt before they are investigated for anything else.
Meanwhile, there's growing pressure on the Police Minister to relax the alcohol ban - although I don't think it will happen anytime soon. While it has certainly reduced some of the public order offences it has spawned a whole new industry of home brewing and liquor store looting which is diverting police resources from more important issues.
The number of gender-based violence offences is climbing so fast that they are in the process of establishing a new police task force to deal with the issue. While this has been an ongoing problem in SA, the lockdown has contributed to a dramatic rise in the number of cases.
On the Covid-19 front, the lockdown has substantially reduced the growth in positive cases which has only just passed the 2000 mark while the number of deaths has now reached 25. The latest government report is predicting that the peak in the number of infections has been pushed back to September (after the winter flue season0 which probably means that they feel the lockdown has had the desired effect. We'll have to wait and see what they decide at the end of the extended period before we know any more.
Thankfully they weren't doing anything nearly as stupid as the two Brits who crashed through the border from Swaziland into SA, evaded a police pursuit and drove for 3 1/2 hours to Durban, only to be tracked to their guest house by the GPS unit on their hire car. Reckon they'll be spending a few months in jail just for the border crossing stunt before they are investigated for anything else.
Meanwhile, there's growing pressure on the Police Minister to relax the alcohol ban - although I don't think it will happen anytime soon. While it has certainly reduced some of the public order offences it has spawned a whole new industry of home brewing and liquor store looting which is diverting police resources from more important issues.
The number of gender-based violence offences is climbing so fast that they are in the process of establishing a new police task force to deal with the issue. While this has been an ongoing problem in SA, the lockdown has contributed to a dramatic rise in the number of cases.
On the Covid-19 front, the lockdown has substantially reduced the growth in positive cases which has only just passed the 2000 mark while the number of deaths has now reached 25. The latest government report is predicting that the peak in the number of infections has been pushed back to September (after the winter flue season0 which probably means that they feel the lockdown has had the desired effect. We'll have to wait and see what they decide at the end of the extended period before we know any more.
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