Lt General Mondli Zuma said this after he and the cluster police in Pixley ka Isaka Seme conducted a roadblock in Volksrust on the border with KwaZulu-Natal today.

“During this joint operation with the SAPS, traffic officers, and the MEC for community safety, security and liaison, Gabisile Shabalala, we discovered some anomalies with the Covid-19 Regulations.

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“There’s a lot of transgressions on travel permits, especially from province to province. We had to turn back seven vehicles at the time we spent there. One had a bottle of liquor in his person and one other one, had a firearm in his possession, fortunately, it was licensed.

“The permit issue needs to be drummed into travelers from province to province, that each time you travel, it must be for a valid reason like for work purposes, funerals and these permits must be applied for at your local municipality or police station. You can’t just drive into another province to collect friends and family without a permit. Worse still, the passengers who include children, all don’t have permits,” he pointed out.

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In terms of the current crime situation, he said: “At level 5 and 4, the regulations were very strict. Now that we’ve entered level 3, the regulations have been relaxed a bit and there’s more movement of people from June 1, that doesn’t call for the SAPS to relax their viciousness of repelling all kinds of crime, including gender-based violence.

“We will leave no stone unturned in unraveling all types of crime in our communities at all costs. Our forces are ready to fight it, head-on,” he concluded.