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Don't compare lockdown with Holocaust: Jewish group​

07 May 2020 - 08:00 By Zimasa Matiwane
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A number of South Africans have compared the lockdown to apartheid and the Holocaust.
A number of South Africans have compared the lockdown to apartheid and the Holocaust.
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The SA Jewish Board of Deputies ​has lambasted comparisons between lockdown rules and the Holocaust.

It is “disrespectful to the mass murder of millions”, it says.

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