NATJOINTS said police responded quickly to blocked roads in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga and thanked the ‘business community’ for helping to quell the looting in Hammarsdale.

The police, army and state security were briefed on the National Shutdown recently. Law enforcement officers have been deployed across the country and they are on ‘high alert’.

NATJOINTS says it has been holding meetings to chart out safety plans for Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s official funeral on Saturday