5G excuse for eroding private property rights
31 July 2020
Draconian methods used by the National Command Council to deal with Covid-19 are clearly becoming popular in government circles, evidenced by the draconian regulations being proposed to allow 5G cellphone towers to be built on private property without the owner’s permission.
This is the approach adopted by Communications and Digital Technologies Minister, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, whose draft policy was published this week.
The public have 30 days to object. And we certainly hope they will. Never mind that the draft regulations are a blatant breach of the Constitution, it is clear that either no one in the Minister’s department, even the Minister herself, has read this sacred document or everyone in the Ministry simply holds it in contempt.
What the department wants is to give 5G network companies the right to build, maintain, alter, or remove their facilities anywhere they please – possibly even in the middle of your garden, if that is where the signal is best.