This information has been directly sourced from an article published for the Institute for Security Studies which is available here.

Despite South Africa's COVID-19 lockdown designed to attempt to stop the spread of the virus and eliminate its presence, it is having averse affects in regards to overall death numbers.

This is due to high levels of police brutality with reports of police having killed three people in the first five days of lockdown, the same number of lives taken by COVID-19.

Most police and soldiers are being respectful and profession during such a tough and challenging time but many are not.

For more information regarding this read the full article here.