Nkandla mayor Thami Ntuli has cried foul play after he was arrested for breaching national lockdown regulations on Thursday.
said the municipality had embarked on a programme to hand out food parcels and hand sanitiser to street vendors.
“We had gone to a local taxi rank to hand out some of these parcels to the street vendors — many of whom have been severely affected during this lockdown,” he said. “We told the vendors to come one by one, collect their parcels and go back to their stands,” he said.“We decided to close the programme and head back to the municipal offices. I then received a call from the local police informing me that they had received an instruction from above to arrest me and the municipal officials who were part of the programme,” he said.
“The sad part is that they also arrested 13 of the street vendors and made them sign an admission of guilt fine of R1,500. I doubt those people even knew what they were signing for.”“The premier [Sihle Zikalala] was in Umlazi on Wednesday doing the same thing,” he charged.
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