Because of this lack of oversight, Steenhuisen said during the lockdown the executive was effectively writing laws and regulations as it pleased, bypassing debate and possible opposition that would have taken place in parliament.
Steenhuisen rubbished a number of regulations under the lockdown, including those pertaining to e-commerce and the sale of cigarettes, alcohol, winter clothes and cooked food. He said the legal challenge by his party would stand in the way of a slide towards a one-party fiefdom, where laws and regulations were issued by decree. But the ruling African National Congress stood firmly behind the government.
“Like many other people, we are concerned with the economy. We agree that a phased in approach to open the economy, based on a risk adjusted strategy, is good. We are waiting to hear what regulations to ensure workers are safe to enable opening up will be published,” Duarte said.
jsteenhuisen 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
jsteenhuisen SA's slide towards Bolshevism has to stop. It's been around since the days of Rhodes and now the CCP.
jsteenhuisen Were papers filed?
Is fiefdom direct translation of freedom?
jsteenhuisen Loving Democracy
Tell us something new.
Crazy!
jsteenhuisen this time around don't involve us in fighting against us....talk to that Wizard of Oz (Zille) to use her powers and disband all white parties and fight together....we (blacks) except the ass lickers, are fine with this lockdown
jsteenhuisen The small boy that u are John, can't shake the gigantic ANC.dwindled are David/goliath days .Your ancestors failed even during the heydays of their and ur evil apartheid. So u wish u could drive us back to those dark days neh? Times have turned, chimes chimed
He is fighting for his people not South Africans.
We the people agree
jsteenhuisen jsteenhuisen being selfish is one thing but being selfish and greedy is just totally shit. Do you think that ending lockdown is going to help feed families... Thats so naive of you considering that you not going to take a bus or taxi to work and either way we always been poor!
Steenhuizen's skewed political outlook is having the better of him and rapidly discredits his standing as an official opposition party leader
With your party being the leading party, what have you done to help curb the spread of COVID19? This is really not the time to be making such comments, that clearly don't come with solutions...do something in the WC
Mouth piece of capital
Steenhuisen makes me feel like im starving😩
His mother regrets the day she gave birth to to this man
Simza_396225 Uthini kortbroek manje lana?
Dictatorship ow plz
What a clown... Can't answer a simple question, which south Africans are you talking about?
jsteenhuisen Quite correct let's dump the boorish political cartel and reboot sa.
Our_DA , not my DA, interesting is JS is close to initials JZ and there is some common behavioural tendencies 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The ‘fiefdom’ is a colossal barrier to our nationhood. By propping up these many tribal chiefs (tyrants called ‘Kings’) at massive annual costs to the largely White taxpayer, something’s got to give and it won’t be pretty. ANC can’t straddle state vs traditional tribalism.
Poor matriculant
Yes! JohnSpeaksForMe
If there's one person who can do it, it is you jsteenhuisen johnspeaksforme
Sounds positively Marxist to me
To late it ready has
I think someone needs to check this one's temperature. He is running a fever....
jsteenhuisen JohnSpeaksForMe SABCNews you asked which South Africans John speaks for, I’m sure it’s blatantly clear now! He stands for myself and my family, he stands for the poor, the working class, the starving and the broken! United we stand!
I wish Vladimir Putin can come and run SA FOR 12 months
Whatever he is smoking, he must not pass it on to anyone else! He is dangerously hallucinating right in front of our very own eyes.
We are behind you Mr.JS. Please nail these so-called leaders.
When will he stop with his white nonsense.... ........... Do you think he can stop?
Truth!
jsteenhuisen This is about people's lives not politics.
Hai suka wena, go back to sch
Agree!
jsteenhuisen Is this cause they can’t win via the ballot 🤔?
jsteenhuisen
what opportunistic bollocks.
Wasting time while infection rate is escalating in Western Cape. Refocus your energy guys please
He is trying hard shame. Akukho khona. Poor dude. The DA really needs umholi.
jsteenhuisen jsteenhuisen now you are getting your sleeves up and kicking ass! Fantastic and good luck to us all. Low interest rates, cheap petrol, a bumper Miele harvest..all we need is the ANC in orange under proper lockdown without parole and my Goodness this economy could be rocking
jsteenhuisen
jsteenhuisen DA must be stopped!
This man needs to start spending time with his family and get off Ramaphosas D*
Chickening like a paranoid girlfriend who just realized that competition is TOUGH
He would be right too. I think the real question is how much authoritarianism SA'cans are prepared to consume.
jsteenhuisen Thank you
We are really under dictactorship
jsteenhuisen John you speak for us!!
johnspeaksfor whites
Go to school and then try win the national elections. My advice, in the above order.
He needs extra classes to study grade 12 to get Umalusi
Nee boet jsteenhuisen dit is nie waar nie
He could be doing something to help. But then he knows who backs him.
jsteenhuisen White people dont care about being the bad guy They are used to it. It's their interest first before others. Welcome to south africa.
Lol.he cant fight anc in election arena nw he wnts to use the courts to fight anc,pathetic of Our_DA
'Which South Africans' I am one of those frustrated SAns that jsteenhuisen spoke about. I am sick and tired of this political muting happening to some of our lawmakers, just because the ruling party has a certain agenda doesn't mean they should disregard other people's views.👎
jsteenhuisen Matrix
Well, that is what opposition parties are for, is it not?🙂
jsteenhuisen He looks like a clown!
jsteenhuisen Which South Africans?
jsteenhuisen Matric
🤣🤣🤣'We' would like to thank the DA for entertaining us, its been a roller-coaster ride..
jsteenhuisen If stupid was a person 🤣🤣🤣
jsteenhuisen Grandson of so many murderers must talk for himself. since when do they care for all south africans. Thank God its not under they leadership We would have being dead by now. Specially us black people. because they would have not ban anything in black societies so that we can die
jsteenhuisen I wish you can use that energy to go to University and fight for a degree 😛
But SA is not one party country, just win the elections chief. Get educated guys to avoid making these drunk comments
Shame to him or to them white monopoly arhhhh. I’m not surprised kwabonywerenywere
Our_DA should really focus on getting more voters than always asking for donation for court application. An indocation that if they are in power the judicial system will rule.
John needs to go back to school.
jsteenhuisen My president.. my leader...your Excellency Mr Steenhuisen!
mama_wabo He can open up Western Cape. But he must make sure our people are not part of his suicide.
Two chances to stop the ANC at the polls. Zils and nil. Maybe a SA spring... No I don't think so. Starting up own independent community and barricade it against the state? Better chance.. Just as one of FransCronje IRR senarios suggested.
DA's reign has solely been on 'exposing' ANC & its corruption, nothing else and now because of Corona they don't have a story line. Really its boring, stay in quarantine then pick up where you left off once this is over please😑🙄
jsteenhuisen Coronavirus COVID19 WhichSouthAfricans MANY meaning BLACK South Africans and White. Our company who consists 99% of BLACK people have still not received their UIF, they keep phoning and asking when they can go back to work!!
This guy is really crazy
Wasting resources at this time. How thoughtful. 🤔 It's always got to be a fight...
This guy throw tantrums like a child with NO grade 12......Oooops my bad, I remembered. Grow mjitha just leave the ANC and We - Souh Africans out of your utterances that seeks attention while referring to the minority YOU....🙏Be a leader NOT a competitor 🤔
jsteenhuisen Which South Africans?
He couldn't even answer a simple question😂😂😂. Mxm!
Did he mention how?
He blocked this idiot
jsteenhuisen The Khweshin still stands 'Wich South Africans'?
jsteenhuisen We still wanbb Know which South Africans 😂😂😂
What wrong with this guy
🙄he must win elections first
jsteenhuisen Thank you mr. Steenhuisen for your reasoning. I've watched your clip on youtube and it makes perfect sense. Of course reading through the comments below, there is little reason & understanding by some as if the virus will dissapear by keeping people in house with draconian laws.
He won’t last this one, let me save this tweet for reference
Our_DA is a one leads a one party state in CityofCT and Western Cape and they do what they like. Cape Town people still pay a monthly water levy of R100 and R200 even though there is now water that part of the World. There is no transparency on what is done with those billions
jsteenhuisen Which SAns?
jsteenhuisen What a waist of time and energy
For a change I agree with the DA specifically on the encroachment on civil liberties by Ministers too lazy to do the jobs they were appointed to do - Cele & Mkhize - and hiding behind COVID-19. It is painful considering I voted for the ANC, next time I vote I'll remember this.
And to this day we still don't know 'which South Africans' he was talking about 😅
ANC is corrupt!
jsteenhuisen John is certainly not a unifying leader. helenzille alanwinde I'm not impressed with this.
jsteenhuisen Which south Africans?
All this commotion over a puff.... Nicotine addiction is a serious matter moes, I for one I am glad of the lockdown and it's restrictions... Iearn to led, this here tantrums are of spoiled kids who are used to getting what they want most time than not
jsteenhuisen Maybe John Steenhuisen should consider his slide towards blocking any detractor who questions his words or attitudes on social media. Or simply learn to honestly answer a simple question such as 'Which South Africans do you speak for?' that everyone knows the answer to.
People are dying in WC he is busy obsessing about ANC,this garde 12 drops out and Jan Van R grand children are a nuisance.
Someone has to do it ... because the rest will just sit and be critical .. but enjoy the fruits of the hard work that DA put in ..no other party is doing anything...
We have one party dominant state because voters arenot convinced that any opposition party would fare better. Change the electoral system to First Past The Post if you are tiredof being relegated into the margins ofSouth African Politics. You are also poor with managing coalition
This is the one man that can save south africans from the clutches of the tyrants in the anc
It’s becoming a one-party State because they’re faili as the opposition mxm
jsteenhuisen jsteenhuisen I thought you were doing it for South Africans so who told you that we don't want Lock down, which South Africans sent you to oppose lock down?
Which South Africans ? 😂 maybe he meant Europeans
jsteenhuisen Agree, we are moving towards a dictatorship just like the rest of Africa has done in the past. This phenomena happens when a government can not get things done and starting to fall out in results.
jsteenhuisen Our_DA jsteenhuisen Joke of the century 🤣😂🤣😂
jsteenhuisen Populism during the time of crisis-DA is lost
The same group of moronic liberators keep running almost all African States like a fascist outfit!!! There are all over the continent!!
Maybe but he's not the man for the job unless he cuts the puppet strings. Unfortunately his personality type we all know too well. We know what I want to talk to the manager means and we LOVE the look of their faces when the manager comes. This is not a colony. This is OUR LAND
jsteenhuisen Guys school is important
jsteenhuisen Mxm
I'm behind you jsteenhuisen
jsteenhuisen Which south Africans
I would take some of his concerns seriously if he took this virus seriously.
jsteenhuisen Ooh....
Which South Africans
jsteenhuisen You must learn proper television etiquette!!! Learn how to control your temper!!! Such bad behavior from an adult!
Flo_Letoaba pls come and ask him a simple question again
DA is failing in fighting Corry and crime in the WC and diverting from the real issues. Being an opposition party doesn't mean you have to bark at everything. Your solutions and resolutions for the poor will always make you an options. You duck like your interview with Flo!
I just pray to God that this man get corona so that he can understand why the president did what he has done.
White privilege Which South Africans?
Which South Africans?
Lost child.....😂
The coup he staged against Musi got him delusional
I can't take him serious anymore after yesterday...he couldn't answer a simple question
I think John's histrionics seek to divert attention from the mismanagement and sex- capades in Tshwane as well as the litigation against Cogta.
jsteenhuisen This guy is goofy, whatafak is he doing on that picture?
jsteenhuisen Last kicks of a dying horse...
Mr Steenhuisen check yourself if your mind is right..I think something is missing to you..First tell your guys to move people from Site B BM to Bosasa where they can have enough space .Not stopping the movement of them..
So the law is now 'fiefdom' ? You are not above the law John.
John is crazy
WC should just go on it's own.....
jsteenhuisen
jsteenhuisen Only one way to stop the ANC, and that is with personal and political sanctions.
jsteenhuisen If only he can start with WC and set that Province right, then we can start listening to him. For now, let's join hand to defeat this pandemic✊
Uyahlanya loyoMlungu, udakiwe
jsteenhuisen No John you and the DomAlliance must be stopped
They don’t even have enough funds for this madness they starting 🙄🙄🙄
jsteenhuisen People are dying in the western cape instead of trying to fight with the anc maybe set the example and help people. Going to court is a waste taxpayers money instead take those court fees feed the hungry and help the sick. Plead your case with humanity.
Which South Africans....?
Well you’re not doing a very good job
The DA can't play the same game back. Money means power. ANC have the power to watch the Western Cape's every move and than they trash you on all kinds of online media.
Honestly people who think John should just stop are those that think socialism is a great idea. It’s called a democracy. He has the right as the biggest opposition party to question everything the ANC does.
I'll only take him seriously if he tells us which South Africans and which meeting was he taking about and why was I as a South African not aware that I was there
Shame on DA leader John Steenhuisen's fixed mindset&cheap political agenda against our President Ramaphosa,South Africa & nation need support, unity,patriotic & medicine to fight the spread of Corona virus/pandemic not Steenhuisen fixed mindset & cheap political agenda!!!!!
Hahahaha
This party been known that we are not going to take them seriously when their white people keep whiting about like? Western Cape is very literally going to kill us all
I noticed that every time government is about to issue something. Few hours before it happens, John rush to media to demand it. In our eyes it appears as if he fought for it. Whereas government already planned to release it.
ANC is not macro managing government
We cannot allow them to control us and our lives
He must go to school that one.
🤣 I blame it on coffee 😂
I want to know what's he saying about South Africans.
This guy is on something illegal.
John must be drinking home brewed liquor
And stopped now.
This man is really crazy
DA leader John Steenhuisen to the Corona virus/pandemic like cheap political joke!!!!! History will judge him when thousands of our people died from the Corona virus/pandemic!!!!! In America they talk about Corona virus clusters & rate people Corona virus keep on going up!!!!
The existence of the DA solely depends on snitching on the ANC and taking public officials to court, nothing else. So please spare us with the unnecessary attention seeking antics, we have our hands full with Covid-19.
1 party fiefdom? What the hell is he smoking? What is he on about? Can somebody balance me quickly here?
But the governing party is the ANC
Leon_Schreib jsteenhuisen , the slide is stopped by their own incompetence, knowledge gained by the masses on the internet. You dont see protests supporting NDZ or even Cyril...the people have a mobile device
Thankfully enough of us avoided the 'vote ANC to save Cyril' Kool Aid and supported Our_DA who are clearly all that stands between SA and one party domination
Lol he doesn't have the money to do it though
Whatever he’s drinking these days, he must stop it because it messes his thinking
Sunday Times is finished mahn 🙆🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤡🤡🤡
There is one on 702 saying she doesn't like Min N Zuma's tone. Ba tena ba shame!
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