{"id":17600,"date":"2021-01-18T15:26:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=17600"},"modified":"2021-01-18T15:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:26:32","slug":"7-455-arrests-for-not-wearing-masks-what-about-the-police-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/7-455-arrests-for-not-wearing-masks-what-about-the-police-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"7 455 Arrests for not wearing masks, what about the Police minister?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Morning Shot&#8217; we see that you will have a criminal record if you are arrested not wearing a mask in South Africa. The Police Minister, General Bheki Cele, had noted with great concern the arrest of 7 455 citizens who were caught not wearing masks in public in 15 Days of the lockdown. The video looks at the consequences of these arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the National Lockdown in March 2020, over 342 000 people have been arrested for contravening the Disaster Management Act.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/15-days-of-lockdown-20-000-people-arrested-7455-for-not-wearing-masks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 Days of lockdown \u2013 20 000 people arrested, 7455 for not wearing masks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Morning Shot&#8217; we see that you will have a criminal record if you are arrested not wearing a mask in South Africa. The Police Minister, General Bheki Cele, had noted with great concern the arrest of 7 455 citizens who were caught not wearing masks in public in 15 Days of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[1123,5485,5487,9797,8978,9799,9798],"class_list":["post-17600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-arrests","tag-bheki-cele","tag-cele","tag-disaster-management-act","tag-lockdown","tag-masks","tag-wearing-masks"],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jglQjieaudQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}