Simphiwe Dana Weighs In On The Humiliation Encountered By SA Citizens At The Hands Of SANDF #Covid19inSA

Simphiwe Dana Weighs In On The Humiliation Encountered By SA Citizens At The Hands Of SANDF #Covid19inSA – President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on SA’s security forces to save lives and not violate the rights of people as SA goes into a lockdown at midnight on Thursday.

By Friday the country’s armed forces would have already been deployed across SA to enforce the 21-day lockdown to battle the spread of Covid-19.

Addressing over 600 soldiers at the Doornkop army base in the south of Johannesburg, Ramaphosa said that while the Covid-19 infection rate stood at 927 on Thursday night, it could increase to 1,500 over the course of a few days.

“This is not a moment for skop en donder. This is not a moment for skiet en donder,” the president said.

Simphiwe Dana took to social media on the 30 March 2020 to respond to an active user who seems to be oblivious to what the SANDF’s way of conduct towards black South Africans amid the lockdown.

Over the past weekend visuals of people being humiliated at the hands of the SANDF and the police force have been circulating.

This is what the caption had to say:

Maybe we haven’t been watching the same videos. People being humiliated, beaten, and not allowed to be in their own yards. People being turned away from going to buy food. Surely that is not ‘protect and serve’. And no politician should advocate for the abuse of human rights.