ActionSA Proposes Multi-Party Platform to Respond to Government’s Covid Crisis
26 January 2021
ActionSA has taken the step of writing to the leaders of a several of opposition parties in our country, to initiate a multi-party engagement platform. The purpose of this engagement is to build the common ground to respond more effectively to the crisis created by government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
With the approval of ActionSA’s Senate, I have formally written to the leaders of the ACDP COPE, DA, IFP, UDM, VF+ as well as Mmusi Maimane’s OSA.
We have deliberately excluded the EFF which we deem to be a threat to our hard-won constitutional democracy and a party that openly champions the collapse of the South African economy.
It is indisputable that our government has created a crisis in its recent handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have emerged into 2021 to a situation where South Africans are dying because inadequate preparations were made during a 7-month lockdown to prepare our hospitals. We are learning that our government has exposed our citizens to a 3rd and possibly 4th wave because of delays in procuring the vaccine. In the absence of any plans being communicated about a vaccine rollout plan, we are too are left to only imagine what disasters will emerge from this silence.