With the clock ticking down to three weeks of lockdown, Cape Town is experiencing an exodus to the Eastern Cape.
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"If I stay in Cape Town, chances are I may end up without any food. There is also no overcrowding in my village, so the virus spread will not be as bad as here in the city." "We’ve seen about a tenfold increase. At this time of the week, we [usually] hardly have anyone travelling. People often start travelling on Thursday evening to attend funerals in the Eastern Cape. But since the announcement of lockdown, people have been flocking to the rank to register their names," she said.
"I just think the Eastern Cape is safer than the Western Cape. There’s not a lot of people that side compared to the urban areas, and it’s spacious there. Here the houses are too close together, there the houses are scattered far apart. It’s much safer.
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