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WATCH: ‘Lockdown has been brutal’: vendor arrested for selling atchar mocked by community

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23 April 2020: An elderly woman is put in the back of a police van after being found to be trading without a permit. The SANDF and SAPS on patrolled the streets of Soweto to enforce lockdown regulations. During the patrol they checked permits and made several arrests and confiscated goods. Picture: Sebabatso Mosamo/Sunday Times

Thandi Thabethe, who is 53, was arrested in Dobsonville, Soweto, on April 23 2020 for selling atchar without a permit during lockdown. Thabethe’s arrest was recorded on video and circulated on social media. Despite being released from her holding cell, Thabethe still faces some backlash from her community after returning home.

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