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WATCH | ‘Stay safe for 21 days, we’ll all be alright, we’re going to heaven’ - homeless man

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CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO Thabo May is a homeless man who sleeps on a bench at the Sea Point promenade in Cape Town. He told News24 on Saturday he was waiting for police to pick him up and take him to a place of safety. He was one of a few homeless people left on the usually buzzing promenade. May is aware of the 21-day lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, but says he is not scared of the virus. Instead, his message for South Africans is: "Stay safe for 21 days, we'll all be alright, we're going to heaven."
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WATCH | Army takes firm stance against Johannesburg’s homeless as lockdown gets under way

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CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO   Members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and metro police stopped Johannesburg's homeless community from loitering in the CBD on Friday morning. This comes just hours after the country went into national lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Soldiers rounded the homeless up just outside Park Station, while waiting for transport to the next available shelter. One homeless man told News24 that they had waited till midnight for someone from government to place them in shelters, but nobody came, forcing them to seek shelter in the empty streets as the lockdown began. WATCH |  Empty streets in Cape Town CBD as 21 day lockdown begins South African human rights activist Mluleki Kondile said he was disappointed at the government's ability to deal with the homeless during the lockdown period. "My job is to make sure that everyone who stays in the streets get sheltered as the president has promised.
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