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BusinessLive reports that the government has been given just over two weeks to overhaul lockdown regulations put in place to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus after the North Gauteng High Court found them to be unconstitutional and invalid.
On Tuesday, the court found in favour of an application by Reyno de Beer and Liberty Fighters Network, a little-known organisation of which De Beer is president. The traditional affairs minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, was directed to comply with the order within 14 business days. During the suspension, the level 3 regulations gazetted by the government last week will stay in place. The cabinet said in a statement it noted the judgment and would make further comment once it had studied it fully. Judge Norman Davis found the declaration of a national state of disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act in response to the pandemic to have been rational. However, the regulations in respect of alert levels 4 and 3 were not "rationally connected to the objective of slowing the rate of infections or limiting the spread thereof". The deficiencies in the regulations needed to be addressed by Dlamini-Zuma, reviewed and amended so as not to infringe on constitutional rights more than may be justifiable.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Genevieve Quintal at BusinessLive
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