{"id":503167,"date":"2021-07-05T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=503167"},"modified":"2021-07-05T08:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:29:33","slug":"gauteng-sets-up-24-hour-roadblocks-to-stop-travel-what-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/503167\/gauteng-sets-up-24-hour-roadblocks-to-stop-travel-what-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng sets up 24-hour roadblocks to stop travel &#8211; what you should know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng traffic police have established 24-hour roadblocks in and out of the province in an attempt to limit leisure travel.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Obed Sibasa told eNCA that the roadblocks are in place on major routes to prevent travel to the surrounding provinces, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free State;<\/li>\n<li>North West;<\/li>\n<li>Mpumalanga;<\/li>\n<li>KZN;<\/li>\n<li>Limpopo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While 10 roadblocks were originally set up when the country first moved to an adjusted level 4 lockdown on 1 July, these have since been supplemented with additional checkpoints, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sibasa said that officers will stop motor vehicles and search them for anything illegal, for roadworthiness and for documentation.<\/p>\n<p>He said that similar checks are in place for public travel and that operators may only have 70% on long-distance commutes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BDoukMlpUtk\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Under South Africa&#8217;s adjusted level 4 lockdown restrictions, leisure travel in and out of Gauteng province is prohibited, except in the case of businesses, emergencies, attending a funeral, moving residences or one of the other permitted reasons.<\/p>\n<p>People who are currently outside the province and reside there may return home.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions are in place in the hopes of containing the Covid-19 spread from Gauteng, which is the centre of infections during the country&#8217;s third Covid-19 wave.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday (4 July), South Africa reported have been 16,585 new cases of Covid-19 &#8211; of these 9,443 were reported in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jailtime on the cards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police minister Bheki Cele has warned that transgressors of the alert level 4 regulations will leave law enforcement with no option but to make arrests.<\/p>\n<p>In a media briefing last week, Cele said that the aim was not to criminalise people on mass but instead make sure that these regulations are being followed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a country, we are all wiser to the effects of this deadly virus. We all know the pain and destruction Covid-19 continues to cause us as a nation and I am confident, there will be more compliance to the regulations set out to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Non-compliance with the regulations carries an option of a fine or imprisonment not exceeding six months or both.<\/p>\n<p>Since 27 March last year, police had arrested 465,098 citizens who have been charged with the contravention of the Disaster Management Act.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, 7,439 were nabbed during adjusted alert level 3 which commenced on 16 June 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice will continue to monitor compliance through targeted operations, which will be intensified in hotspot provinces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity members are also encouraged to continue to be instrumental in reporting the flouting of the regulations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/503019\/what-to-expect-from-south-africas-new-drivers-licences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What to expect from South Africa\u2019s new driver\u2019s licences<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng traffic police have established 24-hour roadblocks on major routes in and out of the province in a push to limit leisure travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":396099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-503167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503167"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503213,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503167\/revisions\/503213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}