Government's climb-down on State of Disaster should have come much earlier
29 March 2022
Please find attached a soundbite by Cilliers Brink MP.
The South African government has finally yielded to months of public and political pressure, and it is now clear that the national state of disaster will be ended.
For months now Covid-19 has failed to conform to any legal definition of “a national disaster”, and so there has been no constitutional basis for the repeated extensions of the national state of disaster.