Travellers have used this opportunity granted by the government to either get home, or get back to their place of work as lockdown entered level 4.
The N1 between Limpopo and Gauteng on Monday had more vehicles than seen since the lockdown started, as South Africans used the window period to make their way back to the country’s economic hub.
Law enforcement officers conducted large roadblocks on either side of the toll gate to carry out searches, check for compliance of the lockdown regulations and find out where travellers were headeding. Officials from the department of health were also at the roadblock, doing screening and capturing details. If any traveller presented symptoms for Covid-19, a test would be conducted on the spot, a nurse said.
Andrew Mathabata, who works in the gas industry, said he was stuck in Limpopo for the lockdown and was looking forward to returning to Johannesburg so he could start working again.
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