Sakeliga urges non-co-operation with proposed regulations
30 March 2022
Sakeliga urges businesses and business organisations to refrain from offering support to the state of disaster regulations proposed this week by COGTA minister Dlamini-Zuma. In the face of increasingly irrational and harmful government action, we urge a unilateral return to common sense.
In the meantime, we are considering expanding our current litigation against the state of disaster and its regulations to account for the latest developments.
Sakeliga rejects the latest regulations proposed under the state of disaster which now seek unlawfully to keep ineffective and unnecessary measures in place even after the (already unlawful) state of disaster is lifted. In promulgating the proposed regulations, the minister would be acting ultra vires – that is, outside the bounds set for her by law. She may not continue to wield powers granted under the state of disaster after the state of disaster has been lifted.
The appropriate and lawful course of action for government is to completely abandon the state of disaster, along with all regulations made under it and all alternative regulations intended to replace it.