To stop NDZ in her tracks, DA requests urgent court date for our existing challenge to Disaster Management Act
10 February 2023
Please find attached an English and an Afrikaans soundbite by Cilliers Brink MP.
In addition to challenging the national State of Disaster (SoD) that was announced last night, the DA will write to the Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) for an urgent court date to hear our existing challenge to the constitutionality of Section 27 of the Disaster Management Act (DMA).
Should the DA’s application be successful, it will stop the recently declared SoD before it starts, and spare South Africans Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s penchant to abuse power using the DMA.
Since 2021, the DA has been engaged in a legal fight to have Section 27 of the DMA declared unconstitutional as it leaves Parliament with no formal and direct supervisory role on decisions taken under the Act, even as it transfers extensive legislative powers to the national executive for indefinite periods of time.