Joburg's crazy G20 weekend

SUMMIT: SURREAL 'TRANSACTIONS', POTHOLES, CRIME

- Itumeleng Mafisa

Although South Africa's hosting of the G20 leaders' summit has been lauded as a success, the event was marred by dramatic incidents, including crime, negotiated "transactions", outages, potholes and broken street lights.

In a media briefing yesterday, Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi said there were 1 799 arrests in the week leading up to the summit at the weekend.

He said during the flagship meeting, police had to deal with a case of trespassing against members of Operation Dudula. They are accused of trying to raid the Nasrec Expo Centre where world leaders were gathered.

Meanwhile, their colleagues were helping negotiate a “business transaction” gone wrong across town.

"We had two pilots from Brazil who were in an Uber with two ladies whom they met at an entertainment area.

"After failing to agree to a certain transaction with these ladies, the two pilots decided to leave the Uber and wanted to walk to Kempton Park from Sandton," he said.