Muslim groups have challenged the regulations in the Pretoria High Court, asking that they be allowed to pray in mosques during lockdown.
The South African Human Rights Commission said that SAPS must enforce protocols without infringing on human dignity.
EFF leader Julius Malema said there’s nothing wrong with the way in which police arrested 17 men in a mosque.
A video circulating on social media shows police storming into a mosque to arrest a group of men for violating the lockdown regulations.
As well as local businesses being looted, a mosque has also been targeted by a petrol-bomb in Johannesburg, as xenophobic violence returned on Sunday.
Gunfire shattered the peace at a mosque in Newtown, Johannesburg on Friday when a group of armed thugs raided the venue for its money.
The quiet New Zealand city of Christchurch was struck by two deadly attacks on Friday, with 49 people killed and another 20 seriously injured after gun assaults on mosques as Muslims worshipped.
Outpouring support from the global community was felt by a nation that has been gripped with fear after Friday’s events.
A group of men – suspected of being involved in terrorist activity within South Africa – are back in court for the “ISIS trial” this Tuesday in Durban.
Another attempted mosque attack.
Earlier today a mosque was set alight in Chatsworth, Durban.
They’re ruling out religious extremism.
The attacker was shot dead when he tried to harm police officers arriving on the scene.
Nearby homes were evacuated as bomb disposal teams raced to investigate.
The community leader thinks that there was only a “religious motivation” behind the attack.
New details about the horrific attack.
Emotions are running high.
It’s yet to be confirmed whether or not this is a terrorist attack.
Big numbers turned out in the mother city.
Hammams, meze, baklava, kebaps: Istanbul is a city of the senses. It also bridges the pious and the hedonistic, the Byzantine and the modern Turkish – and the landmasses of Europe and Asia. Heather Walker spent a few days in old Constantinople.