NEWSFLASH: The DA will head to court in an attempt to end the hard lockdown

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DA leader John Steenhuisen has announced the party’s intention to take court action to challenge lockdown regulations, arguing that President Cyril Ramaphosa left South Africans ‘bitterly disappointed’ on Wednesday night by not announcing the reopening of the economy and by not ending the hard lockdown.

If the Democratic Alliance had its way, the hard lockdown would come to an immediate end as the party believes that its severity has destroyed more lives than it has saved.

“Yes, there is a threat – a very real and scary threat – right outside our door, but it’s not going to go away,” Steenhuisen said. “Remaining in hard lockdown until at least the end of May, and possibly even longer, is not good enough.” “But right now, because of this lack of oversight, the executive is effectively doing the job of writing our laws and regulations as they please, bypassing all the debate and possible opposition that would’ve happened in Parliament,” Steenhuisen said.on Wednesday, 13 May, saying that the lockdown had achieved its purpose and without it, at least 80,000 South Africans would have been infected and the country’s death toll would be eight times higher.

 

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What about going to cc to force govt to buy Madagascarn herb to solve covid19; joking

The lockdown was to give time to get medical facilities ready. That’s been done. Time to start freeing the economy so lives and livelihoods can be saved

DA must just take the L and go away, what’s happening in WC should teach us that it can ony get worse if we end the lockdown

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