People across South Africa are bracing for a 21-day lockdown after the government announced sweeping new measures to tackle the spread of the new coronavirus.
This announcement was made yesterday by the Country’s president Cyril Ramaphosa during a live broadcast.
The move was unprecedented.
It is the first time since South Africa became a democracy in 1994 that a president has stripped away the most basic freedoms of citizens – to walk, to shop, to socialize and to pray freely.