Coronavirus: Sky's sparkomat reports from the South African township where people just won't follow the lockdown rules
I spoke to one shopper called Tirello, in front of the Freedom Supermarket.
"We are out now, going shopping, we are meeting different people. If I am infected, maybe this man [in front of me] is not infected and I am spreading the virus to him. It is not going to work. It is not going to work."Several hundred soldiers were bussed into Alexandra with orders to keep the township's residents indoors.We tagged along with one detachment through a particularly rough part of"Alex" and it was clear the residents did not want them around.
"I am staying in one room with five others, how can I stay in there all day? They must just come and arrest us," he replied. The residents ebbed and flowed around the troops as they made their way down the township's sodden tracks. Some took shelter in the alleyways and others perched on roofs. But when the soldiers had passed, the people retook the streets.
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