We have received a number of reports of employees and transport being stopped and people being threatened or taken to the police. The majority of the reports received are from Mpumalanga, (Nelspruit), Western Cape (Oudtshoorn) and KwaZulu-Natal (Durban). Contact details for Criminal Lawyers (received via the group of lawyers in the Business 4 SA group) are set out below in case of emergency. Please distribute amongst relevant personnel.

FSA is engaging with the relevant Government departments and have escalated its efforts through the PPGI team to resolve these matters urgently.

These are lawyers at the 5 major firms who people can contact in a hurry, if they are arrested or are poorly handled by SAPS/SANDF personnel. They can be contacted directly and have been alerted to the possibility of receiving emergency calls at odd hours:

Criminal law is not the general beat of the commercial law firms – there are a few very good criminal law firms which have recommended:

JOHANNESBURG

• BDK Attorneys Emergency no: 011 838 1214

• Ulrich Roux: 083 469 1619

CAPE TOWN

• William Booth: 076 144 9332/072 976 1331

• Leon van der Merwe: 083 270 6182