Extended lockdown a last attempt for ANC to loot dwindling State coffers
12 September 2020
The extension of the National State of Disaster to 15 October 2020 by the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, is just a another attempt by an autocratic regime to cling onto its dictorial powers and loot what’s left of relief funding.
This extension has nothing to do with saving lives and has everything to do with the ANC’s unfettered urge to empty South Africa’s dwindling State coffers.
Recently, President Cyril Ramaphosa was quoted saying that “[government] has to a large extent run out of money and we are going to have to cobble the money together.” The reason that South Africa has run out of money is because his party stole it all and insisted on subjecting South Africans and our economy to one of the world’s longest and hardest lockdowns.
The lockdown does no longer serve any purpose other than destroying livelihoods and killing businesses. Instead of an extended lockdown, the government should have announced measures to ease the debilitating effects of this lockdown on South Africans’ lives.