Here are the DA’s level 4 lockdown proposals to save lives and livelihoods
29 April 2020
On Monday, Democratic Alliance (DA) Leader, John Steenhuisen, submitted the Party’s inputs on the draft regulations of the risk-adjusted level 4 Covid-19 lockdown to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and Trade and Industry Minister, Ebrahim Patel.
The DA welcomed Government’s decision to ease the hard lockdown from level 5 to level 4, in accordance to the DA’s Smart Lockdown. We are however concerned that there has been no real evidence produced by Government on which the risk-adjusted strategy has been based.
This means that the decision to not open certain sectors of the economy have quite possibly not been based on research and fact, but rather on Government’s need to exert authority over South Africans.
We are of the view that there is a need for the economy to be opened across a much wider spectrum as Government’s draft regulations does not go far enough to prevent an economic meltdown post-lockdown.