Sakeliga lodges court application for Dlamini-Zuma’s Covid Command Council records
15 September 2021
The business group Sakeliga has lodged a court application to compel the government to disclose its grounds for the state of disaster, disaster management regulations and lockdown levels.
The court application forms part of a process, in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, to obtain Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s records of decision-making regarding the lockdown and all disaster management regulations. In terms of the Disaster Management Act, Dlamini-Zuma as Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, is the person responsible for enacting these regulations.
“The goal posts for when the restriction must be lifted, are constantly shifting. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s point of view this past Sunday, that the restrictions will continue until an acceptable number of people have been vaccinated, contradicts the earlier rationale that restrictions are a temporary step and is only intended to flatten waves of infection. This previous standard, as well as hospital capacity and number of deaths, are now inexplicably shifting to the background. The shifting of goal posts, without transparency, is detrimental to the social, economic and constitutional order,” said Piet le Roux, CEO of Sakeliga.